Good morning b.real. Thank you for the compliment. I'll be honest I dont get the fertilizer stuff very much. I really need to educate myself more on it. I just try to keep things simple, find a well balanced nute that contains all the essentials she needs and see how my plants respond.
I learned MG was a dud nute, and was missing CA and MG which John pointed out (thank you John) I'm guessing it was my soil that had all the nutrients for the plants during the veg phase, was high quality soil with all kinds of stuff inside bone meal worm castings kelp etc was a long list. once everything was depleted the plants werent getting vital nutrients it needed and things just went downhill. At least thats my assessment so far.
I remember you stating you felt your girls had a slight nute burn, did you change your mind and conclude N deficiency?
I'm sure as you already know this, but hopefully theres knowledge for others to gain. Typically for soil mediums a flush is to eliminate any possible nute or salt build ups. assuming equal amounts of nutrients provided to a plant lets say A B and C. A plant might use more of Nute A and less of nutes B and C so after awhile what happens is you get an excessive amount of 1 ingredient which needs to be flushed away.
Some macro and micro nutrients compete against eachother in nutrient uptake, so its always good to keep everything in balance.
Typically nutes are not added after a soil flush, there will most likely still be some remains of nutes in the soil and the plant will use up some of its reserves till the next watering cycle where you can give her a thorough and balanced amount of nutes.
Hope this information is accurate and that someone finds it useful lol
i think ive balanced my soil out. my girls are drinking, so i know theyre ok.
no cal mag in the miracle gro nutes? thats odd. glad you figured that out.
