First time using high powered led lights

steveydvee

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lm281b is not a high-powered diode, it's mid-powered. Why are you running CO2 with no till? You aren't giving it enough food to keep up.

Respectfully disagree with not being able to induce co2 with not till. But as to the not enough food, you’re probably right in my case.
 

maranibbana

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Respectfully disagree with not being able to induce co2 with not till. But as to the not enough food, you’re probably right in my case.
What’s in your living soil? How many cycles have you grown in this living soil? How long have the plants been in it? What’s your watering schedule like? Did you top dress ever? Feed ever? If so, what?
 

PJ Diaz

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Respectfully disagree with not being able to induce co2 with not till. But as to the not enough food, you’re probably right in my case.
So you have a lot of experience using CO2 with no-till, do you? When you use CO2 you need more of everything, including nutes and light. If you can't provide more nutes and light, then additional CO2 is pointless.
 

maranibbana

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So your assertion is that if you use any "living soil", calcium and magnesium are unneeded? I hate to break it to you, but "living soils" can have deficiencies too.
False, didn’t say that ;) Cal mag bottles are different than calcium and magnesium from organic source
 

steveydvee

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Clearly the living soil is not very robust, so it needs everything.
My compost is hand made with coots worm bin methods and I use this to top dress above my dry amendments at a rate of about 2 gallons per 25 gallon(Wish I used beds). The soil was constructed following coots the recipe to the T. Also this is the second run in this soil so it may need more time to settle but it has been top dressed with kelp, neem, crab and gypsum before the run. Following this guide as to the amounts but added neem also.


Has living worms in it. My other room has hps lighting and potassium def in late flower showed so I’m definitely going to need that forsure for this LED room but this is a little early to be running into issues in veg. It seems only strain specific. My GMO, Blue Sunshine are growing well.
 

maranibbana

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I said, first person who says cal mag is banned.

cal mag, is usually a bottled mix.

calcium and magnesium from non salt sources are a different story. And most of the time you’d be just fine with just calcium to raise your cation. Really you don’t need that much, and in reality if you use a well sourced EWC, and top dress with that, you will find many of your macros and micros. Giving a boost of micros won’t hurt, but tbh you can grow amazing weed with base soil, ewc, and chopping/dropping cover drop with worms in soil... so a true living soul my friend in fact doesn’t need to be fed. Esp if it’s been rocking for a while in the same pot. With worms, and many bennies, chopping cover crop and chopping and dropping your leaves and using Bokashi feeds the soil.
You can in fact run living soil without ever feeding it...
 

maranibbana

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don’t use synthetics if you want to stay organic, if you need a soluable that’s not salt based to feed your plants directly look into organics alive
 

steveydvee

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So you have a lot of experience using CO2 with no-till, do you? When you use CO2 you need more of everything, including nutes and light. If you can't provide more nutes and light, then additional CO2 is pointless.
About 5 cycles of experience but none with LED lighting. Hps room is fine.
 

maranibbana

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My compost is hand made with coots worm bin methods and I use this to top dress above my dry amendments at a rate of about 2 gallons per 25 gallon(Wish I used beds). The soil was constructed following coots the recipe to the T. Also this is the second run in this soil so it may need more time to settle but it has been top dressed with kelp, neem, crab and gypsum before the run. Following this guide as to the amounts but added neem also.


Has living worms in it. My other room has hps lighting and potassium def in late flower showed so I’m definitely going to need that forsure for this LED room but this is a little early to be running into issues in veg. It seems only strain specific. My GMO, Blue Sunshine are growing well.
If you have all that in there your not seeing a deficiency you are seeing imbalance, do you give any bennies?
 
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