Ca Deficiency. What is cheap that I can use as calcium?

Originally Posted by nubbis1020

Yeah...lmao that is what I said when I looked at them closely....a huge fail on buying them...probably my fault mostly for not looking closely at them when I bought it. Going to have to get something else..wait a second. There are these little nutrient packets I have, that came with the aerogarden. They have the following N-P-K 4-3-6 It has 4% Nitrogen, 3% Phosphate, 6% Potash, 1% calcium, 0.5% Magnesium, and 0.5% sulfur. Organic too.

bingo there you go Ca for now til you get a nute(bloom preferred) with Ca in it..haha

Yes, but so little calcium. Ideally you want 100 to 200 ppm Ca ion in your veg nute solution, or an even amount with N. cn

Originally Posted by lime73

bingo there you go Ca ..haha

So you think I should start adding these? Should I stop with the Fox Farm Big bloom? Or combine both? lol...sorry about all the questions man. Just trying to get a good opinion on this. I just changed my water today too and used only the Fox Farm Big Bloom nutes. Which doesn't help I guess seeing as how there is no calcium and that is what I need. So should I change my water in reservoir yet again tomorrow and well add the other nutes that actually have calcium.

Originally Posted by nubbis1020

So you think I should start adding these? Should I stop with the Fox Farm Big bloom? Or combine both? lol...sorry about all the questions man. Just trying to get a good opinion on this. I just changed my water today too and used only the Fox Farm Big Bloom nutes. Which doesn't help I guess seeing as how there is no calcium and that is what I need. So should I change my water in reservoir yet again tomorrow and well add the other nutes that actually have calcium.

supplement the packs with the bloom...eliminate the grow formula

Originally Posted by cannabineer

Yes, but so little calcium. Ideally you want 100 to 200 ppm Ca ion in your veg nute solution, or an even amount with N. cn

That is true...but it's better than nothing? I don't have anything with calcium other than that until I can buy some Cal mag. Which could be a week at tops. I'm broke as fuck at the moment. So I hope you can understand my situation.

Originally Posted by nubbis1020

That is true...but it's better than nothing? I don't have anything with calcium other than that until I can buy some Cal mag. Which could be a week at tops. I'm broke as fuck at the moment. So I hope you can understand my situation.

I do. Unfortunately I cannot recommend a cheap, generally-available household product that will give you calcium ion without all sorts of weed toxins along for the ride. cn

Originally Posted by cannabineer

I do. Unfortunately I cannot recommend a cheap, generally-available household product that will give you calcium ion without all sorts of weed toxins along for the ride. cn

Lucky you then. I'm just going to use the other nutes with the small amount of calcium. I know it's a little, but I see it being better than depriving my plant of calcium all together. Just until I can get cal mag. I agree with the part you say about a household product having other toxins in it. Someone was talking about using tums in another thread. I scrolled down and saw a bunch of people saying there are other toxins in it. I went into the bathroom and looked at the bottle and sure enough there was calcium in it, along with other shit. I quickly tossed that idea out the window haha.

Solution to fixing a Calcium deficiency
To fix a calcium deficiency you can treat by foliar feeding with one teaspoon of dolomite lime or Garden lime per quart of water, Or Any Chemical/Organic nutrients that have Calcium in them will fix a Calcium deficiency. (Only mixing at ½ strength when using chemical nutrients or it will cause nutrient burn!)

Garden Gypsum, which is medium absorption. Limestone, which is medium absorption, Rock Phosphate and Animal wastes which are both medium/slow absorption.