So I have a question about my nutrient game, what am I doing wrong?
Ok, so my first few grows were with a local Afghani cut that I had no real proof of what it actually could have been. It was moderately hardy and somewhat finicky with nutrients. The buds were alright, nothing to write home about, but dank.
I used Fox Farm trio liquids and Cal\Mag plus by Botanicare. I experienced mild nute deficiencies here and there with this strain that seemed to be related to calcium from the sick plants guide, here is an image of what the def looked like:
Next 2 grows were with some Hashplant gifted to me that was supposedly ordered from BC somewhere. Those exhibited the same calcium deficiencies throughout the grow. All were mild but present and equally frustrating.
The last grow was all Hashplant with the exception of 3 Dumpster plants that I was fortunate enough to get cuts of.
For this grow I switched to Advanced (just for the hell of it). I am running the 3 part Grow Micro Bloom nutes also with the Cal\Mag supplement. The Hashplant exhibited some nute (calcium i think\hope) deficiencies but the dumpster hardly exhibited anything, maybe some very very mild cal.-looking deficiencies on very low nodes.
For most of the feeding schedules they were feed water, feed water. On the feedings, I would use a tsp. of Cal\Mag or two (if I saw the cal-like defs i'm talking about) plus whatever the bottles called for. I always went by the bottle but I also worked my way up from light strength to half to full throughout the grow and never really burnt anything from what i could tell. But I always got these cal. deficiencies throughout most of the grows, some were pretty mild, others got more intense but still not so bad. You could always see the cal in the beginning and it would seem like it would go away with feeding the cal\mag but would come back here and there throughout flowering.
So now, this grow, we're running all Dumpster finally and my friend has used miracle gro for tomatoes (even though I'm against it) the entire way through and the plants have not shown one single def, they are perfect looking plants. They are about 2-3 weeks in flower and nice lush green.
Am I doing something wrong? Is it just the Dumpster strain that is handling the food? This strain is by far the sturdiest, biggest healthiest plants we've had and seem to be the most resilient. Like I said, i can't seem to remember the dumpster exhibiting any deficiencies when I ran the 3 under the advanced program with cal. \ mag.
Now I'm moving out and i'm afraid to run my advanced line on my first run because the miracle grow run looks so perfect.
All factors are exactly the same throughout all grows. The water is from the tap and is let to sit for 24 hrs to evaporate chlorine. The water was ph'ed to 6.3-6.5ish with a GH ph kit where you shake the vials. The miracle grow run the water is not PH'ed at all. I'd like to run RO water and have a unit but can't until I get my own spot.
I'm boggled, cus i've preached how i've read on here that miracle grow is terrible, but my friend's grow (same room same everything just diff nutes) looks better than any previous grows we've run. But at the same time the Dumpster strain is the best we've had, and the smoke is much much much better than any other strain we've run.
Help! What am I missing.
Also, it may be important to note that it's a 600w HPS grow in FFOF. A couple of the last grows with the FFOF had some old re-used FFOF cut into it. The miracle grow run was run in Miracle grow potting soil.
I'll post the specifics of the sick plants diagnosis questions if people want it.
Thanks so much. Good vibes to you all.
-b
Ok, so my first few grows were with a local Afghani cut that I had no real proof of what it actually could have been. It was moderately hardy and somewhat finicky with nutrients. The buds were alright, nothing to write home about, but dank.
I used Fox Farm trio liquids and Cal\Mag plus by Botanicare. I experienced mild nute deficiencies here and there with this strain that seemed to be related to calcium from the sick plants guide, here is an image of what the def looked like:
Next 2 grows were with some Hashplant gifted to me that was supposedly ordered from BC somewhere. Those exhibited the same calcium deficiencies throughout the grow. All were mild but present and equally frustrating.
The last grow was all Hashplant with the exception of 3 Dumpster plants that I was fortunate enough to get cuts of.
For this grow I switched to Advanced (just for the hell of it). I am running the 3 part Grow Micro Bloom nutes also with the Cal\Mag supplement. The Hashplant exhibited some nute (calcium i think\hope) deficiencies but the dumpster hardly exhibited anything, maybe some very very mild cal.-looking deficiencies on very low nodes.
For most of the feeding schedules they were feed water, feed water. On the feedings, I would use a tsp. of Cal\Mag or two (if I saw the cal-like defs i'm talking about) plus whatever the bottles called for. I always went by the bottle but I also worked my way up from light strength to half to full throughout the grow and never really burnt anything from what i could tell. But I always got these cal. deficiencies throughout most of the grows, some were pretty mild, others got more intense but still not so bad. You could always see the cal in the beginning and it would seem like it would go away with feeding the cal\mag but would come back here and there throughout flowering.
So now, this grow, we're running all Dumpster finally and my friend has used miracle gro for tomatoes (even though I'm against it) the entire way through and the plants have not shown one single def, they are perfect looking plants. They are about 2-3 weeks in flower and nice lush green.
Am I doing something wrong? Is it just the Dumpster strain that is handling the food? This strain is by far the sturdiest, biggest healthiest plants we've had and seem to be the most resilient. Like I said, i can't seem to remember the dumpster exhibiting any deficiencies when I ran the 3 under the advanced program with cal. \ mag.
Now I'm moving out and i'm afraid to run my advanced line on my first run because the miracle grow run looks so perfect.
All factors are exactly the same throughout all grows. The water is from the tap and is let to sit for 24 hrs to evaporate chlorine. The water was ph'ed to 6.3-6.5ish with a GH ph kit where you shake the vials. The miracle grow run the water is not PH'ed at all. I'd like to run RO water and have a unit but can't until I get my own spot.
I'm boggled, cus i've preached how i've read on here that miracle grow is terrible, but my friend's grow (same room same everything just diff nutes) looks better than any previous grows we've run. But at the same time the Dumpster strain is the best we've had, and the smoke is much much much better than any other strain we've run.
Help! What am I missing.
Also, it may be important to note that it's a 600w HPS grow in FFOF. A couple of the last grows with the FFOF had some old re-used FFOF cut into it. The miracle grow run was run in Miracle grow potting soil.
I'll post the specifics of the sick plants diagnosis questions if people want it.
Thanks so much. Good vibes to you all.
-b
