Biocanna (EC)

[Halcyon]

It says on the back of the bag that the EC is 1.1-1.2 ms/cm, is that the same as saying it has an EC of 1.1 - 1.2 ?

My AK's showing the claw and i had some problems with earlier repots so i tested the runoff on some fresh compost and the EC's through the roof.
The meter goes up to 3.6 and it was maxxed out.

I ignored it at first thinking organic's just like that but problems are persisting.

Is something wrong with the compost ?

Thanks.

 

[Stankie]

You're doing 'organics' wrong if you have to measure EC/pH/ppm/etc....

 

[Halcyon]

I'm not having to do anything, i just noticed my plant looks over fed so i thought i'd check and i was surprised how high it was, left me wondering if there's something wrong with the soil.
It's a mature plant dropped straight into fresh compost, no food yet (only been in a week) and it's suffering.
Takes the piss.

 

[Scrappy4]

Is something wrong with the compost ?

Your compost may be hot, and your adding nutrients to it may just put it over the edge. The numbers generated by measuring organic run off with compost are at best misleading. Your plant is telling you more than your meter, in this case just use it as comparisons, not as hard data. It sounds like a few waterings without nutrients may be in order. When you resume feeding nutrients I'd start with a fraction of the recommended dose untill the plants look better......good luck......scrappy

 

[mad librettist]

Biocanna (EC)

pics?

I've seen plain old epinasty from overwatering and the gardener swears it is overfeeding.

plain water is all you need If you are planted in straight compost.

however, you may be overwatering if you are used to something less dense as your medium.

 

[Scrappy4]

I'm not having to do anything, i just noticed my plant looks over fed so i thought i'd check and i was surprised how high it was, left me wondering if there's something wrong with the soil.
It's a mature plant dropped straight into fresh compost, no food yet (only been in a week) and it's suffering.
Takes the piss.

We must have cross posted, thanks for more details. At one week your plants could be still filling out root wise, and do not need much water until verticle growth starts. Over watering can look like over feeding, among other things. You may want to let them dry out a bit.

Do you have something in the mix for aeration? Your compost could be a bit dense. I used too much ewc a few grows back, and could only water every 5-6 days. Not much you can do other than repot or live with it. I lived with it and fed mostly foliar, and it turned out alright but not great.... Good luck.....scrappy

 

[Microbeman]

How do you tell if a plant is overfed? Look for its pot belly stoopid!

 

[Halcyon]

End of day 8 now and it's been watered twice, due another soon so i might give it a light flush.
I've been leaving it till the pot's light, the soil should be ok out of the bag.

This was on a few tops but i think it's recovering,

A lot of leaves have yellow appearing along the edges, a lot are yellowish anyhow and a bit glossy and not right looking..


I've been growing in coco but i wanted a break from daily watering duties.
Coco's been good to me though, i have a rocky past in soil.

Thanks everyone.

 

[habeeb]

I've used that stuff before.

in the world of bagged stuff, it is very light, as in nutes, and texture. I say you could go 1 1/2 weeks in that without nutes, so it is very light..

never check runoff, its worthless. I can tell you how if you really want to know, but it's not gonna solve anything being as I've run the stuff, and its light for bagged stuff.

now the clawing, some strains do this when entering flower, have you run this strain before? also are you adding bio canna nutes to water?

tap water? R/O water? adding any other additives in water?


don't worry man, if you can do coco, you can do soil..