Damned .... you sound like a scientist. I'm puzzled why anyone would even know all that unless they're in that line of work or prepping for Jeopardy .... LOL. Kind of reminds me of when I was a teenager reading "The Book of Useless Knowledge". Not saying it's useless to all. But most people wouldn't know any of that stuff off hand & would have to research it.
So how do you fix a K lockout ? I'll give it a shot. Got nothing to lose so why not?
That's kind of how I feel. Overwhelmed with this stuff giving me problems.
Most everyone is going to work with you on your bills right now... many people are forgiving things. I know it is tough right now, but hang in there. The world will move past this soon. You are not alone.
No chance of that. I usually have to pay. Haven't got a refund in over 10 years. So I can't even give my banking info until the 17th.
When you say similar leaf damage Top & Bottom I'm not sure what you mean. None of the Top Leaves are yellowing at all. It's all at the bottom & working it's way up the center.
Sorry if I got yours confused then... there are about 3 MC grows out there right now with very similar damage, and it is showing both top and bottom in most cases, and I thought I had seen some of that same damage here. None the less, I still maintain that this inexplicable damage you are seeing does have a reason... K lockout. Backing down to 5 was a good call I think and I hope it slows down the progression of this problem. On my next run I will probably increase the MC a bit each watering in veg or at least every other watering, until I get up to 4 or 4.5... from then on, it is going to take a major act of congress or severe complaining from the plants to make me go any higher... and some day I do want to grow a plant that is capable of handling 6g in soil... so far, I have not met one.
The base pH of the soil is not the problem and MC is mobile over most of the old hydro and soil pH ranges, so that is not likely to be the problem either. I didn't pH adjust my grow using MC and tap water during the entire grow because I knew it was not nearly as important to do so as in a traditional salt based nutrient grow where the pH needed to be within a certain small range for the nutes to be available to the plant. I don't believe that the lockouts have anything to do with pH, it is all because of the interactions between the minerals, according to Mulder's chart of interactions.
No, it will not cause any trouble because the nutrients in the supersoil are still in their raw form and are not available to the plants until the microbes break them down into their mineral components, so there is no adverse interactions happening there according to mulder's chart. A plant being fed MC has the nutrients moved directly into the plant via the water so mineral availability in the soil is not even a factor in these interactions, except for several of the raw nutrients forms that are in the MC and which stay in the soil.
First you have to find out the pH of the soil. I can tell you to drop the MC and add Calmag but if the pH in the media is off it won't help.
Thanks for the encouragement. I've been on the phone 1/2 the day getting my unemployment straightened out. The unemployment office removed me from the company I work for Shared Work Program so I can file tomorrow. 2 weeks fighting it, but got it done so things are looking up.
After watching the video's I would say it's a K def. Those leaves look exactly like mine do & it's doing exactly what he said it would. Reason I think this is because of the sides of the leaves are burning like the pics in the video & it's traveling fast.
