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04-03-2012, 12:24 PM #16
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Getting to be a bit more of a 911 "Help Please?"
Thanks Burgertime, (not sure if you did mean Phosphorus, or Potassium??)
To update a couple items. (regardless of who might have sprayed a bug destroying agent.. the fact is that it may have been done)....lol (OK.. it wasnt me that did it, and after a few weeks now of close inspection it doesn't appear that there are currently and bug issues).
I had a Gardner out Saturday that has been green thumbing it for many years. His comment on enviornment was... "Temperature is Perfect". "Deffinately not a Heat Issue", "Air flow is top shelf". "Lighting is better than he has ever had".. He also commented that if anything the plants appeared that they could use more water overall.
So, after that made me all happy with respect to the "BIG" potential issues. Then the focus is on soils, water, and chemicals (be it organic or not).
The overall issue may (and most likely is a Potassium, and potentially Magnesium deff). The soil I am using should be fine in those respects to the point in the grow that I started having issues..
Sodium Lockout may be the key... as more watering was done, the worse the plant go, as if the necessary nutirents were in fact blocked by the salts building up from my city tap water. Since I really dont want to have a study done on the water. Per "Polishpollack's" info, I have gone to using distilled water to make sure I have "NO" sodium in the water supply (it will take a few days to see if this holds merits).
I have also got consultation at the local green grow shop (local product supply house)... Since these plants are getting into weeks 4 and 5 in this soil, the soil could now be nutrient naked. So I am watering with a fert mix recomended at the local shop (at 1/4 strength).. Pictures of products being used are included.
I have noticed that the distilled water I get locally has a PH in the 5.8 range. Not positive if I should increase it or not at this point??? (Help??)
There is also very debatable info on whether or not to flush the pots.. If I do have a salt lockup issue, should I flush the plants to get rid of the solts... (thus creating a potential overwatering issue). The Fox Farm soils is big time easy to get water through, so it doesnt just sit there and make a bog out of things.
Due to being a bit scared about this particular plants potential for infecting the rest of the plants, I did elimintae it yesterday (it has so much stress it would not perform well anyway) I wanted to look at the roots, and this plant in bad shape had nice white roots to the full depth of the 3 gallon pot, and was actually a pretty thick mess of roots in the pots bottom... The mid pot roots (if it were a tree, I would call them the Tap roots) seemed very strong (hard to break). The whole dirt package came out held together and overall was not soaked at all, and seemed like it could have used water any time..
Once again. I research and consider eveything that is passed on to me... Thank you. I will follow what I have going for a few days and see how things respond. :thumbsup:










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