Nectar of the gods worth it?

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bubba73

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Retired engineer said:
Bubba, cool to offer your experience with Nectar for the Gods products - here’s a question for ya. I have some plants that are showing signs of calcium deficiency. I have been using Herculean Harvest bone meal at the amount recommended on the bottle of 2 tbsp/gal to address this. The various feeding schedules on their website call for up to 60ml/gal - this equates to 4 tbsp/gal.
Have you found the “sweet spot” for this additive? I’m growing in a mix of FF soils and Big Roots, feeding them twice a week at 50% of the FF schedule, and the plants are in the 3rd week of flowering.

Thanks,

Mitch
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First thing first……. Need to know what your slurries are …. using FF , big root, I’m thinking your PH is on the lower end and locking out the take up of the calcium……
 
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Retired engineer

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I’ll have to get the equipment to check the slurries. Ive been using tap water and not minding the ph, so need to score that equipment as well. I’ve had several grows indoors, and never checked the ph and they all turned out well. I’ll get that stuff in the next couple days and provide the results. Thanks for your help - the couple doses of bone meal I gave them (it really is only 1 of the plants) seems to have arrested the spread.
 

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Sugartips

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Herculean Harvest will lower my water from 6.6 to 5.5 when i use about 60 mls in 2 gallons of water. At that ph your calcium wont get absorbed. Basically since nectar is a calcium based line that means you other nutrients are getting locked out. It uses calcium as a carrier for other molecules like nitrogen, phosphorous, potsssium magnesium ect. To correct this get ph up & down and monitor your water and do a ph test in your soil slurry,to see where your soils sitting at since you don't have a conductivity meter
 
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Sugartips said:
Herculean Harvest will lower my water from 6.6 to 5.5 when i use about 60 mls in 2 gallons of water. At that ph your calcium wont get absorbed. Basically since nectar is a calcium based line that means you other nutrients are getting locked out. It uses calcium as a carrier for other molecules like nitrogen, phosphorous, potsssium magnesium ect. To correct this get ph up & down and monitor your water and do a ph test in your soil slurry,to see where your soils sitting at since you don't have a conductivity meter
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thanks—I’ll score the gear I need this afternoon at the local hydro shop...
 
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Retired engineer

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I’m at 6.0 on the slurry test. It trips up to 6.1 momentarily...

it was blazing here today and their last watering was yesterday morning so they’ve dried out quite a bit. I’ll give them a gentle mist about an hour after sundown. I have some options on what to give them tomorrow:

50% strength FF week 10
Terpinator
Bone Meal
Cal mag
straight water

I think my ph is in the right range, and I’ll start paying attention to ph of what I feed them...on the glide slope now...
 

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