New Grower First Grow Journal- Northern Light Auto

[growgirl]

Day 49 updates

Thanks for all of the positive feedback everyone! I guess it does help that I'm a girl ;D
anyway day 49 from sprout! NL is supposed to run for 60-90 days! But a LOT of leaves are getting brown spots, yellowing and dying! I know it's normal for some to die off and most of the ones dying are at the bottom but there's still a decent amount dying in the new growth too! The pH is pretty low still, I don't know what to do about it. I tried watering. With pH 8 and it's still low. Probably around 5.0. I already tried using dolomite lime! Check out these pictures let me know what you think!

 

[suggz1980]

hopefully this will help.

 

[growgirl]

It looks like potassium def. I'm kind of stuck here. I haven't been giving that many bloom nutes, because I don't want to burn her. I've been giving one teaspoon (1/3 table spoon) Big Bloom and 2 teaspoons (2/3 table spoon) of Tiger Bloom. I've been worried because the PH is so bad, so I didn't want to give too many. She's due for a water, should I feed more nutes? Or should I try to flush?

 

[Chandyside]

Have you tried foliar feeding? I'm having low PH issues at the mo and she seemed t stop growing but been spraying her the last couple o days and she's beasting it again. Must of grown about 3 inches overnight :-D

 

[Mr Piggy]

I see P dep and possible the beginning of cal/mag. Do you have a soil PH meter?

I would look for some garden lime as apposed to dolomite lime. Dolomite lime takes time to work well but the garden lime can be mixed with water and take effect quite quick. I've never done this myself but I have seen others raise their PH that way.

If anyone has done this could you please chip in?

 

[growgirl]

I see P dep and possible the beginning of cal/mag. Do you have a soil PH meter?

I would look for some garden lime as apposed to dolomite lime. Dolomite lime takes time to work well but the garden lime can be mixed with water and take effect quite quick. I've never done this myself but I have seen others raise their PH that way.

If anyone has done this could you please chip in?

The dolomite lime I used is Garden Lime haha. It says garden line on the bag but dolomite lime in smaller print on the back. I'm thinking I might do this:

A flush with about 7 gallons of water.
On the first gallon, I'll add more lime except ill crush it up very well, to almost a powder, that way it gets mixed in well. Then I'll flush with the rest just pHed water (maybe around 7.5 pH to try to raise it. And then on the last gallon I'll add some tiger bloom and big bloom for potassium.

Do you think this will help?

 

[Mr Piggy]

I don't ever flush, so I don't know. Any time I've flushed I've had negative results. Dolomite lime isn't garden lime, I hate it when they mislable. I was talking about hydrated lime.

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Also P stands for phosphorus, K stands for potassium:tiphat:

 

[Chandyside]

I don't ever flush, so I don't know. Any time I've flushed I've had negative results. Dolomite lime isn't garden lime, I hate it when they mislable. I was talking about hydrated lime.

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Also P stands for phosphorus, K stands for potassium:tiphat:

Never heard of anyone not flushing before. May I ask the reason?
Chandy.

 

[Magic]

Organic Growers dont have to flush! :thumbs:

 

[Mr Piggy]

I don't use any bottled nutes with salts in them, so there's no point. Over saturating the soil can cause PH fluctuation as well. I would only flush if I had too much of a buildup of nutes, which doesn't seem to be your problem. Can you tell us the exact ph of both your soil and your feed?