Flush ( 10 gal. water/5- gal container) either start over (organic ???) again, or add 3" earthworm castings/ bone meal @1.5 × more castings than none meal. No more diagnostics with nice buds. I can send you a pic of my grow, if you would like.
I grow Organic, I don't believe those additives are on the Organics listings. I've never had molds,fungus,bugs, or deficiencies applying organics. Once I used another friends compost and the next morning I had 4 species of fing flies in my tent. His posting had serious control issues. Now LMFAO Brother
thank you. I have the worm castings so I’m going to brew a tea with some molasses. Would you recommend trying this after flushing or skip the flush?
I’m using earth juice ph up crystals and microbe life ph down if needed. Unless I’m busy and didn’t plan to bubble a mixture, i don’t use very much of either. The soil should adjust for ph and the earth juice website says they give their plants the mixture at around 3.6 but i can’t bring myself to do that.
I know I have castings and I think I have bone meal, so this is definitely doable. 10gals per 5 gal containers, 4 containers = 40gals x 5 gals per hour. So it would be 8 hours to get that much RO water. Do you really have to use that much water to flush?
You shouldn't need to use any pH up when using EJ. That shit is acidic. And Microbe Life pH down is basically phosphoric acid which isn't great for the microbes.
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Please don't listen to that advice to flush 10 gallons through your soil.
Haha not including your friends compost, what’s your organic soil formula? I tried two grows with amended soil and they didn’t go every well so I thought using earth juice would be close and easier. The pic looks nice, i definitely want that end result.I grow Organic, I don't believe those additives are on the Organics listings. I've never had molds,fungus,bugs, or deficiencies applying organics. Once I used another friends compost and the next morning I had 4 species of fing flies in my tent. His posting had serious control issues. Now LMFAO Brother
Thanks for forwarding I’ll give it a read here shortly.You shouldn't need to use any pH up when using EJ. That shit is acidic. And Microbe Life pH down is basically phosphoric acid which isn't great for the microbes.
I did teas the first time I used it, but that was a lot of work. I've been mostly just top dressing lately. Much easier. I have given some EJ without bubbling, but I've kept the dosage low, so the pH isn't crazy when I use it. I'm talking like a TBLS total of whatever EJ per gal, and that will make my water around 6.5 or so, but my water comes out at like 7.8.
3.6 sounds scary for the microbes.
Here's a study on different nutes, including EJ. It's what I started with a few years ago.
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yeah that seems like a lot of water. For the fix here, do you recommend flushing or just try using castings and lowering the amount of EJ I’m using?
Ya, horrible advice if you've been using organic nutes like EJ and organic soil.
Don’t flush...add nothing... just give them a tea and top dress w/ ewc. Water as normal. Your plants will green back up in a matter of weeks. It is most definitely an absorption issue but PH-ing stuff won’t fix it; you just need a boost of microbial activity to normalize ph. The only other thing I suggest doing is to begin using granular mycorrhizae in the hole at each transplant; that will forgive a host of absorption issues but it may be a bit too late to do this for your currently blooming plants.
Stop ph adjusting stuff just water as needed for awhile
Here’s the best tea recipe known to man:
thanks I’ll check tonight.
thanks for all the help. I’m going to make a tea today and try adding a little more meta-k when they’re ready a few days after the tea/ewc. I’ll follow up to share if it worked.
hey thanks for the tips here. I’m definitely going to try your tea. I do actually sprinkle a teaspoon or two of mycorrhiza on the root ball and hole when transplanting from 2gal in veg to 5gal in flower. It was about 2 to 2.5 weeks after transplanting in flower when I started to see issues. The plants looked real good before that with their hair cut and larger containers.