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Thanks for sharing that, it is really useful having the experience of others to help guide one's actions. I guess a pH meter would be a useful tool if it gave reliable readings. The flushing with RO water I will do in future if a suspected nute lockout is occurring.
I can appreciate the different nute needs between strains and have noticed that myself. This year I was probably keeping the soil more moist from being mindful of the soil biology and my now 'air pots' drying out quicker. But your's and others mention on watering to leaf sag, which reminds me that the best result I had came from a plant that was several times severely water deprived, so much I thought it had gone past the point of no return. Part of that 'greater moisture' this time around was that upon chopping last year's grow I noticed large areas of the potted container soil that was fairly dry while other parts were more OK. Also too, this year I turned my standard plastic pots into 'air pots' so I felt that any moisture excess would presumably be lost quite quickly. However, I didn't notice any leaf sag during this grow, so indicating I probably should have waited longer between waterings.
Thanks again and look forward to following your developing multi strain grow project!
He is doing much better today
I can appreciate with a multi strain grow like yours, how tricky it is to co-ordinate and balance the difference needs of the different plants.Yea, PH meters are really not that accurate, at least ones I have used. I use the colored drops and they seem to be far cheaper than a PH meter and far more accurate. I haven't used my PH meter in probably 5 years because I was tired of the readings being off all the time.
Cannabis definitely prefers dry soil to wet soil from my experience. The "pick up the pots" method of feeling how moist they are is definitely a great way to check, as well as watching for leaf sag. I never try to let my leaves get fully saggy, but as you can see in my last post there were a few in the back right side of my sour grapes project that were fairly saggy and needing water. That is about the limit that I try to water them before. Its hard to do a "schedule" with so many strains which is why I have gone to a more synthetic nutrient approach than organics, because the Earth Juice I was using, although a fantastic product, has to be bubbled for about 48 hours to bring the PH up, and I found that I was either rushing feedings due to the PH being perfect, before plants needed it leaving the soil too wet, or I found that my plants would be dry and I would have to either severely PH adjust the nutrients or feed them with very low (acidic) PH and it caused a lot of issues. I love Earth Juice, don't get me wrong as it makes for some very frosty and tasty buds, but it also is very hard to use when dealing with multiple strains which all have different feeding cycle needs and times.
Definitely lean to the side of dryer soil than wetter soil and the plants will love you for it. They also will stretch out more roots and grow a larger root mass with dryer soil vs wetter which leads to overall more yield and healthier plants
Hope the tall girl plays nice for you.
I hate surprises!