Calcium? Potassium lockout? Hempy bucket grow

weedstoner420

weedstoner420

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BenGman said:
Low rh/ plant drinks more = nutrient burn.
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Gonna reiterate this because it took me forever to learn, and the plants I grew in hempy buckets usually ended up looking like yours.

In an inert medium with salt fertilizers, there is no "right" concentration to feed. It's totally dependent on plant and environment. If your humidity is low, the plants are going to take up a lot more water, but they're going to need the same amount* of nutrients (*total quantity, not concentration). If you feed a high concentration of nutrients (like what's recommended on the label, which might work in a greenhouse with 70-80% humidity) your plants are going to take up an excessive amount of nutrients along with the extra water, and get burned.

Fwiw, I've since switched to growing in organic soil with dry amendments, and I have never gotten nutrient burn by following the directions on the product. Yet with synthetic nutes it's always "start at 1/4 to 1/2 the recommended amount and increase if you see deficiencies." But that is another conversation for another thread...
 
Wastei

Wastei

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I say it all the time but don't follow others numbers, follow the plant. If you want to be a successful grower you need to be able to read and study the plants response to environmental stresses.

Those plants are fried to bits because of to high EC and sub par watering practices. Letting EC and salt buildup instead of being replenished in the medium.
 
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skinnys

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I just wanna say your symptoms have progressed much further than they needed to. Allways be on the lookout for any symptoms at all, in most cases it won't solve itself but rather progress, so deal with it as soon as they appear. You could have asked for help when only the tips were burnt and you wouldn't have lost so much yield:-)

Good luck:weed:
 
sandman83

sandman83

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weedstoner420 said:
Gonna reiterate this because it took me forever to learn, and the plants I grew in hempy buckets usually ended up looking like yours.

In an inert medium with salt fertilizers, there is no "right" concentration to feed. It's totally dependent on plant and environment. If your humidity is low, the plants are going to take up a lot more water, but they're going to need the same amount* of nutrients (*total quantity, not concentration). If you feed a high concentration of nutrients (like what's recommended on the label, which might work in a greenhouse with 70-80% humidity) your plants are going to take up an excessive amount of nutrients along with the extra water, and get burned.

Fwiw, I've since switched to growing in organic soil with dry amendments, and I have never gotten nutrient burn by following the directions on the product. Yet with synthetic nutes it's always "start at 1/4 to 1/2 the recommended amount and increase if you see deficiencies." But that is another conversation for another thread...
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yup! this took me awhile to learn as well, "correct" feed ratios are only for that particular environment. Low humidity = lower ppm for feed so the plant can drink plenty of water. Not to mention its cheaper to run less nutes than more, not sure why we always want to put more in!
 
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dtrip

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weedstoner420 said:
Gonna reiterate this because it took me forever to learn, and the plants I grew in hempy buckets usually ended up looking like yours.

In an inert medium with salt fertilizers, there is no "right" concentration to feed. It's totally dependent on plant and environment. If your humidity is low, the plants are going to take up a lot more water, but they're going to need the same amount* of nutrients (*total quantity, not concentration). If you feed a high concentration of nutrients (like what's recommended on the label, which might work in a greenhouse with 70-80% humidity) your plants are going to take up an excessive amount of nutrients along with the extra water, and get burned.

Fwiw, I've since switched to growing in organic soil with dry amendments, and I have never gotten nutrient burn by following the directions on the product. Yet with synthetic nutes it's always "start at 1/4 to 1/2 the recommended amount and increase if you see deficiencies." But that is another conversation for another thread...
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Never really thought about it as calories.
You want the same amount but living around the equator you need to drink more fluid so the calories (liquid in this case) has to be diluted to compensate for the extra water consumption.

Makes perfect sense, ty.

TY for all the help, will try to salvage what I can here, waiting for last terpentines to turn brown. 1-2 weeks more is my guess, but my guessing has been to shit this far coming lol.
 
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badonkadonk61

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BenGman said:
Doesn't look like a deficiency lol it Looks absolutely nute fried from a huge excess of something!, i would change YOUR method with perlite/coco and a backed brand of grow/flower A&B..n that , and ur ladies will have much better dayzzzz!!!

Low rh/ plant drinks more = nutrient burn.
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my 1st thought also - I can only think there is too much soil/medium and the fluid level never really drops letting the roots draw water and concentrating the nutes
 
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