Party poopers

Gquebed said:

When i go to 3.5 gal pots i use the hydroton on the bottom....with promix mychrohazea. Right now theyre in 1 gal without hydroton. Except one. I tried it in one and its still a pooper... lol

You wash the clay dust off before you put the hydroton in the buckets or na?

I always do with ro water but always wondered if i should bother...

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Underground Scientist said:

What size pots? Are those 2's or something? Is this Veg? You could Bloom em with 7's and get nice yield. Should get up to at least a 5 if sex is certain or identified.

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Underground Scientist said:

I do rinse, and I use it even in solos.

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Gquebed said:

One of these will be a mom. Think its obvious which one now...lol

Then i will do clones....8 clones will go to 1 gal then 3.5 gal pots...veg about 5 weeks total then flip. I usually hit 6 ounces per plant with hps...havent hot that with cob yet but thats .e struggling to dial in...

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Underground Scientist said:

I do rinse, and I use it even in solos.

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Gquebed said:

Say....when you pot up do you scrape off the hydroton or just dump it in the next pot?

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Chunky Stool said:

Your plants need more mag.

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Gquebed said:

What makes you say that?

I thought so too and have been httin them with the cal mag last 4 waterings... about 5ml per gallon....wondering if it shpuld be more?

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Chunky Stool said:

Leaf stems are purple.
Purple stripes on main stems is fine, probably genetic, but seeing them on leaf stems is a sign of mag deficiency.

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Chunky Stool said:

Leaf stems are purple.
Purple stripes on main stems is fine, probably genetic, but seeing them on leaf stems is a sign of mag deficiency.

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Chunky Stool said:

Leaf stems are purple.
Purple stripes on main stems is fine, probably genetic, but seeing them on leaf stems is a sign of mag deficiency.

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Yodaweed said:

It can also be a sign of phosphorus deficiency.

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Gquebed said:

I thought it was phosperoous and chased that...

The cal mag was added by fluke becase i heard cob guys really have to watch that.

Cal and mag are immobile and i wonder from recent experience if that is related somehow to phosperhous deficency???? IE....i had bad phosperous deficeny last run....was classic...all the signs....then BOOM! All of a sudden cal mag deficeny was all over and FAST...and bad....

Crippled my yield....

I thought i might have had salt build up and lock out.... but im ususally really carefull about that

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Yodaweed said:

Small containers are very easy to get salt build up and PH lockout in.

Do a slurry test in my opinion.

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Chunky Stool said:

It's hard to have a phosphorous deficiency. Most folks have too much & it locks out N.
They then respond with higher PPM -- which adds more P and makes the problem worse.
Eventually the plant wilts because it's completely overwhelmed with nutes and cannot process H2O.

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Chunky Stool said:

It's hard to have a phosphorous deficiency. Most folks have too much & it locks out N.
They then respond with higher PPM -- which adds more P and makes the problem worse.
Eventually the plant wilts because it's completely overwhelmed with nutes and cannot process H2O.

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Chunky Stool said:

Also keep in mind that there's a balance between cal & mag. If you've got enough calcium and add cal-mag, it may not work as you expect because of the extra Ca, when you only needed Mg.

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Gquebed said:

That could be a great tip for me. I have hard water here. Starts at 250 ppm. Lots of calcium in it. So....been wondering if i actually need more...

If i add. 5ml per gallon i bring the water up to 450ppm.

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