Doug1987
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Hello growers. Let me keep this brief, I've only successfully grown a couple plants. When I take a close look at my plant it looks like somethings wrong. I think it might be due to a certain type of nutrient deficiency, but I need some second opinions on that.
As far as bugs go, I've taken a couple leaves and looked at them under a microscope looking for pests, but I don't see any. It could still be pests somewhere; maybe I'm not looking the right way or place for them. I've amended the soil with two tablespoons of 4-4-4 Fertilizer, and inoculated it with mycorrhizae. Around the mid-section of some leaves they are either cut from the middle outwards, or there are holes burned into the plants, with an orange chemical burn appearance on the circumference of the holes.
What I'm growing here is an AK74 for about a month and a half. I initially amended the coco coir with extra perlite, and a couple tablespoons of gaia green 4-4-4 general fertilizer. It's been growing in a 5 gallon plastic pot that has 40 holes, 1/4 of an inch in size drilled into the bottom. I ph my RO filtered water to around 5.5 with a pen, (calibrated to .1 accuracy), water it either every 3-4 days, or as the water dries up. I use RO because the water here measures at 180 PPM, and I have no idea what's in the water, so I turn to the filtered water as a precaution. The filter cleans the water from 180 PPM to 3 PPM. As far as the roots look they're established as a root ball, with the roots being very thin and long. The roots were starting to come out of the bottom of the pot too. Just today I got new containers; I washed those, and transplanted it into a 3 gallon fabric pot with more. I've topped this plant a number of times, and it has split in half twice. That was two weeks ago so it's healed. I don't know if I should add any compost tea, or anything similar for more beneficial bacteria.
Thank you very much for reading.
As far as bugs go, I've taken a couple leaves and looked at them under a microscope looking for pests, but I don't see any. It could still be pests somewhere; maybe I'm not looking the right way or place for them. I've amended the soil with two tablespoons of 4-4-4 Fertilizer, and inoculated it with mycorrhizae. Around the mid-section of some leaves they are either cut from the middle outwards, or there are holes burned into the plants, with an orange chemical burn appearance on the circumference of the holes.
What I'm growing here is an AK74 for about a month and a half. I initially amended the coco coir with extra perlite, and a couple tablespoons of gaia green 4-4-4 general fertilizer. It's been growing in a 5 gallon plastic pot that has 40 holes, 1/4 of an inch in size drilled into the bottom. I ph my RO filtered water to around 5.5 with a pen, (calibrated to .1 accuracy), water it either every 3-4 days, or as the water dries up. I use RO because the water here measures at 180 PPM, and I have no idea what's in the water, so I turn to the filtered water as a precaution. The filter cleans the water from 180 PPM to 3 PPM. As far as the roots look they're established as a root ball, with the roots being very thin and long. The roots were starting to come out of the bottom of the pot too. Just today I got new containers; I washed those, and transplanted it into a 3 gallon fabric pot with more. I've topped this plant a number of times, and it has split in half twice. That was two weeks ago so it's healed. I don't know if I should add any compost tea, or anything similar for more beneficial bacteria.
Thank you very much for reading.
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