Too much nitrogen
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Fallguy111
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Plant looks fine, soil looks dry.
No info needed, just wondering if it's the beginning of nitrogen toxicity.
Its an octopot. It should be try on top.
Thanks for your .02 tho
Fallguy111
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Are you growing in peat?
It's about to start eating very well. Roots are just hitting the water zone.
Just trying to decide if I should lower the nitrogen in the reservoir for a brief moment
Fallguy111
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Do you top dress?
Mixed a small amount in the medium.
I did one top dressing. 4-4-4.
With one top watering.
Octopot only recommends one initial top watering.
Fallguy111
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I've never tried octopots but I don't like the idea with peat. My understanding is top feeding takes weeks for everything to break down and when you water on top your forcing these nutrients to leach throughout the soil.
They recommend 40% perlite and no heavy soils to avoid compacting.
I pretty much only watered enough to cover rootzone at the time.
Not enough for any kind of run off .
Roots are just now hitting the water zone.
Plants is really dark green.
I wanted to avoid any problems with the water reservoir, now that the roots are starting to feed.
They recommend amending your soil just enough so it feeds till the roots hit the reservoir.
Can you recommend anything to replace the peat next time?
Fallguy111
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Coco.