Pretty certain I have nutrient lockout. What next?

MichiganMedGrower said:

I have been amazed at the fact that after a few years growing the same way I have larger better yielding more potent plants and use almost half the fertilizer I used to.

They need way less than most use. I also have found it better to give lower doses each watering.

Same basic math. If my plant can take 20 ml a week without stress I would prefer to give her 10 ml every 3 days at each watering.

Allows me to lower or raise the doses as needed each watering. Lessens turn around time with fuck ups too.

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MichiganMedGrower said:

They were both trained to 30” x 30” x 30” aproximately. They had many big tops. One looser and huge. One dense and nuggety.

These phenos were similar to 10 or so week finishers I have grown packs of. They took 11 and 13.5.

The quality as far as frost smell taste and potency were both great. The widow cross is super frosty. I have shown it in the frostiest buds thread.

But the deficiency definitely hurt the bud structure. The dense bud plant has much smaller buds now dried out. And the other is looser than I like to see for a 70/30 or so sativa heavy hybrid.

Here they are. Leaves were already taken off during harvest. This is with a flash in my kitchen before we cut the branches for hanging.

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NugHeuser said:

I'm curious, do you defoliate at all? Them nugs run pretty deep

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MichiganMedGrower said:

Not at all unless a plant is finished with one and it snaps right off.

Or I fuck up and they defoliate themselves. Lol.

Seriously most of my plants are green and have even their single baby leaves at harvest still.

I don’t know where the myths and arguments come from on these forums but defoliation and lower pruning is to increase airflow. Each bud doesn’t need direct light. That’s rediculous and I prove it every plant. It’s mostly genetic and if you can keep the plant happy enough to reach its potential.

This is assuming there is adequate light to grow in the first place.

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NugHeuser said:

Right on man. I'll keep that in mind. That's pretty damn good to still have them baby leaves at harvest. That's what you call flawless

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MichiganMedGrower said:

I try my best every plant. But it doesn’t always work out so perfect. That’s for sure!

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NugHeuser said:

MP#9 was leached 2 days ago with 2 gallons, still finished with almost 1100 ppm, still pretty yellow, if not more yellow, but the crazy thing is she's almost dry already she will probably need watered tomorrow.

Do plants with nute lock still drink heavily?

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NugHeuser said:

The ph of the runoff is between 6.26 and 6.3

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