Usually on a nitro def caused by a cal def you see results a lot sooner than 2 weeks. I usually notice a better color in the leaves in about 48 hours.
Hard to say, but I'm leaning to 'not fixed.'
As for your mix question I have no idea but too little will do less harm than too much. I guess try it?
That's the next step. In addition to a stronger than recommended mix, I'm also fertigating them everyday rather than the once a week recommendation so I'm way overboard here.
Still, the plants looked great through about week two of flower and I'm getting more stretch than I've ever had and the leaves are praying to the lights, so it seems like I'm in the ballpark, or at least in the neighborhood, and just need to dial it in. I think. But who knows.
I am mentally stuck on the bottom watering possibly not being able to lift heavy things like calcium to the soil surface but I have never tried or seen it so I am in the dark.
I gave it to them three ways, foliar and through the reservoir two days ago, and a top watering last night. Maybe third time's the charm?
Does it feed the plants directly like a synthetic does or does it get processed through a microbe?
Don't really know. I assumed it would be like the bottled nutes since the microbes break the plant matter down as part of the fermentation process, releasing the nutrients into solution. But, when I fed it through my original SIP set-up with the soil suspended above the water level but hydroton clay balls, the plants showed deficiencies more quickly than they do now with soil all the way to the bottom.
So, it would seem the soil microbes are necessary to bring the nutrients to the plant, and therefore must be part of the normal organic process of microbes feeding the plant. ? But don't really know as the standard application of these nutes is thru top feeding.
So, I've got a bunch of unknowns I'm trying to work through, such as whether the Jadam nutes will be sufficient by themselves, and if they are, what is the appropriate concentration levels, and if I mix several together do each count towards that total on their own or is the combined profile what is important.
My grow method has changed quite a bit with the SIPs since I used to rely on my soil mix in smaller containers with mostly water only. The soil seems to power things pretty well for about 6 weeks and then runs out of gas, which wasn't as big of an issue when I repotted right before flip.
But now with the SIPs I'm vegging them in their final container so the last 3 weeks of veg and the first 3 weeks after flip now consume the 6 weeks of built-in nutes and that's when deficiencies start to occur. Plus, these plants are so much larger and more vigorous in the SIPs than they were in my old method.
The first round I did top dressings of worm castings but had P deficiencies since my castings weren't as robust as they will be shortly, so in the second round I tried a bunch of things like adding my Fruit and Flower Jadam mix. Hard to tell if that resolved the issue since once the leaves turn they don't come back, but the deficiencies did seem to at least slow and the buds seemed decent.
Now I'm in round three and added my Jadam nutes via the reservoir from about week 4 of a 6 week veg and then added some of the Fruit and Flower mix once I flipped. Growth on this plant has been the best so far and with much more stretch than I ever had before, with good color through week 2 of flower, but then the apparent N deficiency.
So, seems like progress as I'm not seeing the P deficiency (yet anyway), but I am getting an N deficiency. But that could very well be overnuting as I purposely fed at both a higher concentration and frequency than recommended to try to get ahead of it but in the process may have caused lockouts.
So it's one big science experiment without the usual controls one would normally have in place.
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But, I
do feel like I'm making progress, so there's that...
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