It looks like your gonna have a great time when all the gals start to flower!!
Great job.............
There are no desks in the back of the class!
I had troble the 1st time I used the sledgehammer........its an extract from the Yucca plant, which is basically a soap or surfactant.
It does a really good job of cleansing your media of build-ups.........but you really must remove the slegehammer after letting it do its job for an hour or so. After I leave sledge sit for about an hour to "wash" the soil.........I then follow with a really good straight water flush to rid the soil of the sledge residue..........and havent had a problem since.
I dont know why this info isnt stated on the label, because I see it as a must!
I think the sledge residue may adhere to the roots and impede water, O2 or nute uptake........
Well good news first, my g/f found another mantis and this one had, let's say an 'attachment' lol.
Obviously it is female and its male companion gave its life to keep species going!
So semi-bad news, plus need a little advice, my leaf tips are turning down, not all but most, and some with brown tips. Obviously fertilizer stress or the sledgehammer was not good. Think I should flush again with normal water? or let them dry out for a few days? Consider that I just REALLY wet them down yesterday. My instinct is to do nothing and let them dry out for 2-3 days then feed them plain water till it really drains. The hardest thing to do for me is nothing. And then go back to half strength ferts. You can see one of the burnt tips curling down above and right of mantis.
I am going to check my 3 plants under the LED that got same treatment a day earlier when light comes on at 7pm PST, but as of yesterday they not showing any of same signs.
Thanks!
I am leaning towards letting them dry out and then just plain water with a little runoff. Burnt tips? No big deal really. Plain water would be the safest thing to do in my opinion. Then you will probably want to hit them with the flowering nutes next watering.
Option 2 would be to flush with plain water after a few days and then flower nutes same day.
Hell, Even if you flushed before they dried out... most damage would be some wilting. Then you know you got to let it dry out.
The only thing I wouldn't do is just apply full strength nutes... assuming its nute burn or maybe sledge burn. Probably need some sort of a rinse?
As long as you don't smoke a joint, get lost in the jungle, and have to start eating your plants to survive until someone finds you? I think you are going t be ok with about any option you choose
I just recently run into this type of problem with not enough aerated water. I recently moved up from a 24 oz. cup grow to using 1 gallon containers. It takes more water to have the runoff I like to see. I only have a 5 gallon bucket to prepare the water. I also use this water to mix up nutes.
My solution? I have started just using water straight from my sink. Right into the 1 gallon jugs and then right into my plants. I have always heard that this is the wrong thing to do. That is... using chlorinated water from the sink. So far no problmes and I have been doing it since I put my current plants in the flower room.. 26 days now.
Something like: **Tap water PH's around 8.0 and I don't PH down**
1. Water (chlorinated tap water) with runoff and then 1/2 strength nutes. (2 to 3 days to dry out)
2. water (chlorinated tap water) and let dry out (2 to 3 days to dry out)
3. water (chlorinated tap water) with runoff, check PH and then 1/2 strength nutes. (2 to 3 days to dry out) **Sometimes I skip nutes here if I get a nut burn.
Rinse and repeat.
So, I was thinking if you had a hose you could just water from the hose outside. I saw my neighbor who has a bazillion flowers and she was watering straight from her hose. I thought damn! Cannabis is a weed? It should be fine with chlorinated tap water. *I effectively assured myself it was ok*
whew... I need a break.
