just ambiante, My office that im in most of the daytime, contains the grow area, so it gets human CO2 during entire lights on cycle. a CO2 meter is on my list for next round of purchases just to find out the true stats on the CO2. I do know this strain, ( Sequoia Shipwreck ) is definitely a Mag whore, because early on, the steams turned purple right off the bat. dosed with epsom, ( 2g pergallon ) for a week, and got her back on track, and was all good going into flower. This is 44 days from flip, on a 8-9 week flower, but buds finish super fast under these lights. Ive started flush already, 3 days ago. Cocoloco, 2 gallon superroots pot, MegaCrop Nutes, Megacrop Cal-mag/MegaCrop PKBoost, and Recharge only used. Pics do no justice,
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Does MegaCrop offer based fir Hydro, Coco & Soil? My mistake using Coco-Loco was mixing it with Coco & using Coco Base nutes. Needed to use soil base nutes even diluted 60% w/ Coco.
Worked well the first yr @ a rate of about 30% with a nute that's base was made for any growing type media.
Originally began adding Coco-Loco to keep the girls darker green as they tend to get a lighter color In Coco & to reduce nutrient use in veg. After doing a side by side (yrs ago), I noticed it kept them nice n green all the way through flower too while the other half in Coco only was a much lighter green.
Ran with this method once switching to led hoping it would combat the issues I tend to have under wh/ only led. Problem was I upped it to 50/50 in the media & switched nute lines, using a Coco base nute program. Needless to say, it all went to shit.
Best advice I ever got about growing when I first started was from a guy whom I wanted to bash his face every time he talked. He said, "If you found something that works well for you stick with it. Dont try to experiment or make changes. Like if it ain't broke dont fix it. He told me he lost hundreds of thousands one yr playing around. I just couldn't Fathom it till it happened to me. SMH.
Anyways, I have 4 nice girls going under the 360 Elites. No yellowing or anything common with wh/ led growing fir me.
The rest of the room is a nother story.
So, in attempt to correct the rest of the room I used some ReCharge. Because the plants under the Elites were already nice & green (darker then the rest) I tried the ReCharge on one of them to see wazuppy. Nothing bad happened but that plant did begin to lighten up some in comparison to the other 3. With that said, i wont be using ReCharge to correct the media with hopes of the leaves darkening up.
Also, im doing this today & that's get the veg Potts off the cold cement floor. That cold floor will slow down drinking & cause purpling stems.
I have a theory that if in veg you expose the plants to "Full Spectrum" (MH, CMH, or LEDs with Floros like PowerVeg) & white higher intesity led occasionally that come flower time the plants will not have such a Mag intake problem or whatever this issue is. Toughen up & thicken the leaves first, then flower.
I'll be trying that myself. Now just to buy a new Daylight Blue bulb. Mine from "15" probably has a compromised spectrum .
