appreciate the reply, thank you
try a minimally invasive way of adding nitrogen and other micros with a topdress of EWC and a speck of either fish meal/seabird guano/or bat guano. Ideally if you can get rabbit manure, mash a lil of that with some ewc and you are golden
after re-reading your information, I don't think its a deficiency, roots has a good amount of food in it, and if you are giving it compost teas weekly you should be ok, as far as nutes go, my next hunch would be possibly too much undissolved nutrients, try giving it water until the runoff is clear, I suspect the first watering and it
My tea is Malibu Compost, Denali Alaskan Humus, and Black Gold Earthworm castings in a paint strainer bag brewed for 22 hours. I still need to get some fish hydrosolate or some sort of food stock. So I gave them a 3/4 strength feeding of Roots Organics nutrients last feeding, its been about 2 days since the feeding and theirs some new purpling showing up on some of the fan leaves. Heres some pics. I only gave them a 1/4 strength feeding about a week and a half ago, now this 3/4 strength feeding, that's it other than the tea throughout their life. The pictures show pretty accurately but they are slightly a darker green than in the picture.
ok so your tea is an AACT, just clarifying..( and you are correct, you need food-stock for that tea, go to the store and buy some blackstrap molasses) I stand by my original assessment, I don't think it's a deficiency, I believe feeding will exacerbate your problem.
yeah AACT, ive got High Brix Molasses I can use until I get something better. my soil temp is about 64 degrees, do you think that could be hindering P,K, and N uptake? or would it have to be colder than that? the canopy is around 79 degrees
do you think since im using 3 gallon smart pots, which hold more like 2 1/2 gallons of soil that it could be a deficiency from the plants using all the available nutrients in there. The plants are about 3' tall on average. So far out of all the diagnosis ive read this one with the picture of phosphorus deficiency seems the closest.
no, I think you are overthinking it, or over analyzing probably is the better term, and that's nothing bad on your part, but I think too much information is rolling around in your head. I've grown herb in some pretty cold soil, and it doesn't hurt them much other than slow them down a bit, but in my experience, I've never seen temperature cause issues like those, 90% of the time seeing leaves like that either means its severely rootbound (possible I guess) or something being off on the soil, I think the roots soil has a fair amount of nutes in it, and somehow it's being agitated by the additives you are adding.
this may be an issue, how old are the plants? three feet would be best suited for 6 gallons, my rule of thumb is 2-gallons per foot of growth if you are organic and in soil, some say 2.5 gallons
yeah I think youre right, best thing to do is flush and see if that helps before anything else. I can probably guarantee itll look like coffee coming out cause when I fed them 3/4 strength the runoff is pretty brown. Ill flush with compost tea in the water so I can clear them out and add some beneficial organisms at the same time to help balance everything out in there. Thank you for your help for real! Ill post some pictures in a few days of what they look like a couple days after the flush.
You are very welcome, holla if you need help, i'd hold-off on the compost tea until after the runoff is clear, just to be sure.
