Why do you use additional calmag where it's already in Mega Crop? I used to think I needed more calmag with coco & led lights but once I started dialing in pH at every watering I stopped using stand alone calmag products. I only use calcium ferts to buffer my coco when I 1st use it.
I don’t use cal/mag either. I use crab meal and lime
Crab meal is good stuff. I need to buy a new box since I'm switching back to organics. I like kind of a seafood blend: fish, crab & kelp meal + some neem meal. It's funny most of the hybrids & indicas I grow are easy on the ferts. While my sativas are the nute hogs in flower mainly wanting nitrogen, especially during the stretch. Harder to keep a plant green at 101-11wk then start the fade.
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I had some leaf health issues early on in its growth. Went online and read elsewhere that Malawi loves cal/mag, especially under LEDs during veg. Also was suggested to start feeding it some PK booster in veg as well. So I started feeding extra cal/mag, bud explosion (just a tiny pinch in my 2G watering can) along with my mega crop every feeding. Plant health improved and my growth has been great too.
If its working for you that's cool. I wasnt a fan of Mega Crop myself mainly due to it clumping up but found it good enough as is. What is the PK booster supposed to do in veg, I've never heard that before. Also what do you pH at? I wouldn't worry about extra calcium unless in 100% coco coir. I will say I veg under T5's though & flower with LEDs mainly bc my LEDs are 3000k spectrum.
I agree
I had been using Advance Nutrients PH Balance line before I discovered MC. Yeah it clumps, but the stuff seems to work for my past 4 grows. I admit I have never PH balanced my grows either. I too technically am not in a soil grow with Pro Mix HP being like peat moss/bog. I have them under my HLG 550W 3500k QB and just runs really hot. My other tent has both a marshydro sp250 and a budget led 500w infinity board running significantly cooler. As for the PK booster in veg, I believe they said it would help benefit the Malawi later in flowering because of its longer stretch/flowering time. So it might just befit the genetics for the rich African earth that they originally resided from.
I still have big mason jar of Mega Crop, I should do a side by side comparison. Yeah with soiless mediums I will ph my water from now on. I got an Apera ph meter for reasonable price & I love it. I use citric acid crystals for ph down & Protek Silica if I need to ph up. Can just eyeball everything now & it be spot on but I still check.
Apera ph meter 10/10 would recommend to anyone.
Heard a few complaints on Amazon about fakes so I ordered direct from their website. Definitely 10/10 from me as well.
If man stretch like that I will have to change them out and put them in a different tent or different room
My Malawi Gold that I vegged for 7 weeks looks similar to these but the ones that I vegged for only 4 are little bushes . They love the heat, high 70’s-to mid 80’s
Do you have any other pics? I'd love to see some more under normal light, if possible.
