^ I hear good about the grotek silica suppliment, they put some kinda chelulators in the nutes to get the water to get to the plant more, or the nutes. same as Advanced in theri wet betty or dutch masters in their saturator

Quote Originally Posted by polishpollack
salt lock out how does that happen

no one knows. people keep saying it's related to pH but no one really knows. it's used as a popular diagnosis, but there's no guarantee that it's accurate.
its called Nute lock out, cased by salt bulid up. it happens from all the nutrients that are used in growing, not all of them are used up and can build up into salts, same as the stuff on a old sink calcum build, up that happens in the bucket. it is realy accurate actuly, instead of diggin up the plant a good grower keeps record of what he put in the bucket so he can manage the salt build up more buy flushing.

this is the basis of all diagnosing in all growing it is one of the first steps in figuring out what is going wrong. begginer advanced all start in the same place. from feeling soil to smelling the air it is all part of growing.