Reave's Soilless: Peat, Bark, Sphagnum, Perlite, White Widow 2018

My buddy is on his second grow. He is using some miracle grow nature's care soil. Looks like his plants are having some deficiency issues. You guys have any ideas? Doesn't look like too much in the soil. He is not using nutrients. I was going to give him some of mine to see if they help his plants recover.
 

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Reave said:
My buddy is on his second grow. He is using some miracle grow nature's care soil. Looks like his plants are having some deficiency issues. You guys have any ideas? Doesn't look like too much in the soil. He is not using nutrients. I was going to give him some of mine to see if they help his plants recover.
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If it’s not cal-mag it’s Nute Burn blowing the tips out .
 
Reave said:
Yeh I thought it kinda looked like nute burn but it's only on the mid level leaves also that soil doesnt seem to have much in it not that I know anything about the ratios. I was thinking cal mag or phosphorous.
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Says in the ad feeds for 2 months
 
Looks like Potassium deficiency to me. Compared to the numbers we feed our plants, that soil looks good for about three weeks!
 
Yes, in veg, the game is to grow the roots by starving them for water and forcing them to expand out seeking every last bit in the container. At the end of stretch, the roots also stop growing so much and their role changes from expansion to uptake. In veg we build the roots, in flower we use those roots.
My watering method changes after stretch ends. I try to water more often and with less. Whatever cycle my hard sided containers have settled in on going into flower, I try to shave time off of that schedule by training the plants to expect me sooner, but with less water. If the plants are getting 1/2 gallon each watering to reach runoff, I will give them 1/3 that amount every time the top roots dry out, in 2-3 days. I still want to wait for the bottom to dry out in 4 or 5 days, but I don't want the entire container to dry out and I don't want the top roots to wait 4 or 5 days between waterings. Where in veg, I make fun of knuckle waterers, in flower I become one.
My plants right now in 3gal hard side containers are running a 5 day complete container wet/dry cycle. I have been watering every 2 or 3 days with about a quart of water, just to get the top roots moist. After the 5 or 6 days of the larger cycle, the bottom finally starts drying out and when I feel that 90% of the water has been used up, I will water properly again, saturating the entire rootball to runoff. Who said all waterings must be equal??
Also please note that the way a hard sided container and the way a smart pot behaves at this point are two different things. A smart pot will typically use the water much faster and without so much of a distinction between the operations of the upper and lower root systems. Typically the additional top watering is not needed in a smart pot, and it is easy to establish a 3 day or shorter wet/dry cycle.
Mid to late flower, water uptake dramatically increases and all containers typically move to a shorter wet/dry cycle, making it unnecessary to do the additional top watering. It is all about keeping the medium moist at this point, and keeping the microlife alive and active, where drying out completely as we do in veg would be counter productive. The more water we can coax our plants to uptake in flower, the larger our buds are going to be.
 
Emilya said:
Yes, in veg, the game is to grow the roots by starving them for water and forcing them to expand out seeking every last bit in the container. At the end of stretch, the roots also stop growing so much and their role changes from expansion to uptake. In veg we build the roots, in flower we use those roots.
My watering method changes after stretch ends. I try to water more often and with less. Whatever cycle my hard sided containers have settled in on going into flower, I try to shave time off of that schedule by training the plants to expect me sooner, but with less water. If the plants are getting 1/2 gallon each watering to reach runoff, I will give them 1/3 that amount every time the top roots dry out, in 2-3 days. I still want to wait for the bottom to dry out in 4 or 5 days, but I don't want the entire container to dry out and I don't want the top roots to wait 4 or 5 days between waterings. Where in veg, I make fun of knuckle waterers, in flower I become one.
My plants right now in 3gal hard side containers are running a 5 day complete container wet/dry cycle. I have been watering every 2 or 3 days with about a quart of water, just to get the top roots moist. After the 5 or 6 days of the larger cycle, the bottom finally starts drying out and when I feel that 90% of the water has been used up, I will water properly again, saturating the entire rootball to runoff. Who said all waterings must be equal??
Also please note that the way a hard sided container and the way a smart pot behaves at this point are two different things. A smart pot will typically use the water much faster and without so much of a distinction between the operations of the upper and lower root systems. Typically the additional top watering is not needed in a smart pot, and it is easy to establish a 3 day or shorter wet/dry cycle.
Mid to late flower, water uptake dramatically increases and all containers typically move to a shorter wet/dry cycle, making it unnecessary to do the additional top watering. It is all about keeping the medium moist at this point, and keeping the microlife alive and active, where drying out completely as we do in veg would be counter productive. The more water we can coax our plants to uptake in flower, the larger our buds are going to be.
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Thank you for this great explanation. Glad 8 asked because the girl looks to be telling me she is thirsty but my previous knowledge said hay wait a minute don't over water.
 
following that strategy for a couple of rounds should help to quicken the overall cycle. The whole purpose of those top roots in the wild is to quickly gather up that quick rainshower before the surrounding plants can take advantage... it really is surprising how much water those top roots will use. It will seem when you get to your regular complete watering that your supplemental watering didnt affect the amount she can take at all... those top roots will have used every drop extra that you gave them. Logic informs us that your buds just got that much bigger, due to that extra effort and extra water uptake.
 
Emilya said:
following that strategy for a couple of rounds should help to quicken the overall cycle. The whole purpose of those top roots in the wild is to quickly gather up that quick rainshower before the surrounding plants can take advantage... it really is surprising how much water those top roots will use. It will seem when you get to your regular complete watering that your supplemental watering didnt affect amount she can take at all... those top roots will have used every drop extra that you gave them. Logic informs us that your buds just got that much bigger, due to that extra effort and extra water uptake.
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Makes good sense.
 
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