They don't seem to mind the brown sludge.. the whole bucket of water was a deep brown colour.
The flowering nutes seem to be blue greenish and less viscous.
But the biocanna vega nutes make their bottlesystem useless, shake it up and it looks like it's filled till the cap. I have to look at it from the top and then eye the 40ml mark which is just below the bend.
The watering when I popped them in the soil was with just Rhizotonic and the second one was with Rhizo & Vega at 63% percent of full dosage and that seems to be 27ml on 10l for the second vegetative phase.
I bought small bottles as litre bottles last me years which can't be great, I noticed with the Hesi nutes in one bottle some kind of organic film had formed.
So small bottles to use up in a couple of growths.
Also the Plagron soil felt pretty great, there's rough bits and twigs in it but the overall soil feels very airy yet all well connected? I guess with the sphagnum, it had a pleasant handfeel versus the DCM for Olives in the previous run.
Expensive though as there's no one in the immediate neighbourhood that carries it and shipping it is expensive although fair as driving to get it at the place that has it would easily cost the same, prolly bit more even. I could get four times the amount of reasonable universal soil around the corner for it.. so this better work!
I do feel better about the whole thing already as I've got root pouches instead of the air pots.. so any soil pests will be easier to contain and treat.. I've got soil for canna instead of for olives, it contains perlite and I've also layered the pots with perlite and soil which makes me feel a whole lot better about watering, drainage and aeration. so that whole situation at the bottom of the plant is already a lot better than the starting conditions of the previous run.
Channel + nr.1
Channel + nr. 2 is getting there as well.
I've also found the perfect solution for under the root pouches, those metal grids would rust you can see some colouring top right side and well the water just still drips in the tent.. but now the insides of the airpots with a tray.. now I can water even if it runs down the side it will catch it and the bottom of the pouch remains dry.
I'm glad I've gone with the Plagron light mix, seems like a good soil which I can easily get around here.. I like I went with the light as that gives me a bit more confidence with feeding full strength nutrients although I did flush even now before going flower feed as using my tapwater does run into trouble so now I'm using distilled topped up with a couple of cups of tap which acts as ph+, haven't used ph- since using the distilled water.