Playing With Royal Queen Seeds At Otters - An LOS Grow

StoneOtter said:
WATERING UPDATE

Looking in on them today I found 3 that needed water so they got a full fish watering. The rest will have it tomorrow and one the next day most likely.

The soil surface is kind of sticking to itself when dry. i take that as a sign it's time to get my ass in gear and make some dolomite water for their next waterings!
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Be gentle on the babies. Go low ppm.

If they haven't had a full watering yet, that may fix it without dolo-water.

Have you added EWC up top yet? If so, crumble that up nicely and see if the crusting comes back next watering. EWC will always crust on it's 1st drydown.

If it crusts again then an issue is starting.
 
Gee64 said:
Be gentle on the babies. Go low ppm.

If they haven't had a full watering yet, that may fix it without dolo-water.

Have you added EWC up top yet? If so, crumble that up nicely and see if the crusting comes back next watering. EWC will always crust on it's 1st drydown.

If it crusts again then an issue is starting.
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Thanks, I'll go with their first EWC then. I haven't made up a pitcher of dolo yet. They have had a full water or two. I was going to keep ppm's 50 to 60 if I went dolo water.
 
StoneOtter said:
Thanks, I'll go with their first EWC then. I haven't made up a pitcher of dolo yet. They have had a full water or two. I was going to keep ppm's 50 to 60 if I went dolo water.
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I didn't mean you should use EWC, sorry, that's your call. What I meant was "have you" used it yet, because if you have it will always crust after the 1st watering, but not in a bad way. That's just all it's calcium activating. Continual crusting after the 1st one is a problem. Sorry for the confusion.
 
Gee64 said:
I didn't mean you should use EWC, sorry, that's your call. What I meant was "have you" used it yet, because if you have it will always crust after the 1st watering, but not in a bad way. That's just all it's calcium activating. Continual crusting after the 1st one is a problem. Sorry for the confusion.
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I got that. I have it on hand and have no pitcher for the dolo water yet. No cornfusion 😊 . Let's watch and see it work. Since there was no issue showing(to me) I presume if my feel was right on the soil surface it isn't horribly bad and the dress of castings can only be helpful.

I put it on yesterday and today 4 get watered with fish water. I expect a crusty stuck together surface on first dry but on second it should tilth up nicely.
 
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