DoubleAtotheRON
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Why do you say that?... if a plant is out of range on PH, there are nutrients and micro nutrients that can't be taken up when out of range.
Calmag deficiency? Help
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pulpoinspace
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cause hes an organic grower, giving advice to a grower whose using hydroponic nutrients in organic medium and neither one of em know what the difference is. its like 90% of this forum and the reason OP got recommended this fox farms and advance nutrients regimen nonsense in the first place.
blind leading the blind.
DoubleAtotheRON
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Ahh... sorry, I didn't catch that.
pulpoinspace
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OP since you bought the fancy hydroponic nutrients already and you measure them out and make feed. Do yourself a favor and pick up a bale of sunshine mix from Home Depot. It’s 1/10 the cost of fox farms and you’ll have way less trouble.
or go with budz method and go full organic top dressing only.
Half hydro half organic is bad. its hard to learn anything that way.
or go with budz method and go full organic top dressing only.
Half hydro half organic is bad. its hard to learn anything that way.
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Aussieaceae
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"Shouldn't" IS the right general advice for soil growers though. And that is a very difficult point to refute.
Bags of soil is never consistent either. Let alone someones tap water.
Bags of soil is never consistent either. Let alone someones tap water.
Trickyticky
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Your soil would have buffer already in the soil . Read the back of the bag . A would of thought it will say somewhere .
Boatguy
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Soil is different than soilless. I always ph'd my feeds in promix
DoubleAtotheRON
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True!... but most bags I stab are nowhere near what is stated. My last 30 bags all stabbed at ~6.5-6.8 BUT!.. the peat and bark mulch in it tends to crash after about a month, and I have to feed in at ~11 ph for 2 feedings to do a hard correction. After that, its fine and stable.
myke
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A question if ya dont mind,I have some used promix that was amended back in the spring.It was in my garden.With the season finished and the peat depleted of nutes. now ive planted some plants and its been a month.What kind of schedule would be best?Feed,feed water or?So far ive fed twice to a good runoff,they look hungry.
pulpoinspace
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This is exactly what i'm talkin about. if you hadn't amended the promix it would be a simple answer. You would feed it with hydroponic nutrients at every irrigation.
When you mix in organics no one can tell you what is going on. Especially without pictures. If they look hungry they probably are.
myke
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Im saying the peat is empty,feeding hydro nutes already.thx
pulpoinspace
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then you answered your own question.
myke
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lol,you missed the question.
Boatguy
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Depends on what you are doing. My outdoor garden just gets a refreshing with some compost, down to earth nutes, and some lime
My indoor plants are usually promix with some extra perlite. They get the water, water, feed regimen. And i ph those ones.
pulpoinspace
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no, i didn't. if your question was how often you should water an inert media it was answered in my inital post. "every irrigation". never give it plain water.
but we don't know if your media is inert. cause you messed with it. not trying to be hostile just making a point.
myke
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Water,water feed thx,when feeding do you get a good amount of runoff?Also is there a good way to check my ph besides the runoff?
myke
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Missed that cheers,so straight peat can be fed just like coco?
Boatguy
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I have never had to check runoff, but i keep feedings low, and water twice in between. If they look hungry i up the dose.
I dont get a ton of runoff either
pulpoinspace
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yessir. both are just inert hydroponic media. I grow in promix I feed mine around 1.6 EC 20% runoff every time. can see pics in signature
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Boatguy
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You use the general purpose from home depot? I have never tested more frequent feeding in it
