When dialing in one's regimen, if the grower can identify that the res is well balanced and all that, but yet the plant is still showing signs of deficiency, the grower can then begin to isolate the reason why the plant is showing signs of deficiency or lock out. Last night, when trying to figure out first what deficiency (beginning stages of) I was seeing here and there on the leaf edges, I found a thread somewhere on here that said if the room RH is too low, a K def will likely occur. Don't know about other deficiencies, but I thought it peculiar that the environment (not the medium of res) could cause a def. I applied a non altering treatment by simply adding more moisture to the air around the plant. I will observe for the next few days to see if leaf edges get better or worse. Knowing at least the PPM of the res and pH and temp helped me to lean towards the conclusion that maybe the res was not causing these symptoms.
AG, I have subbed and will read your blogs in a bit.
Cap'n, what's your take then on adding Aqua Shield to the res? I think you advised against this once before, but in light of my current situation of having a bottle of
General Organic CaMg with 10% fermented molasses and 2.5% Cane Sugar, I'm thinking adding Aqua Shield to keep an army of bennies in the res to devour these sugars before the baddies get to them might give more legitimacy for adding it. Otherwise, I would have to continue using the CaMg and hope no baddies exist in the root zone b/c a weekly supply of sugar will be coming until I can get my hands on another product which might still be some time yet.
AG, I applaud your out of the box thinking for adding calmag to your humidifier. That would definitely appear to be a non invasive way to foliar feed w/o using a spray. I really wished that had worked out for you. Not that I have a humidifier, that would none the less have aided growers the world over.
On a side note, I know I am a bit wordy and way too analytical, but that's who I am. When I learned myself the guitar, I really got deep into musical theory, strum patterns, arpegiations, finger picking, rhythm, bass line, soloing, scales and modes, vocals, drums etc before I could dial that back and just feel the groove and settle in it. I took music far from the soul of it and into the mechanics of it, but the knowledge gained there helped e find my way back to the soul of the music and have a better understanding of why a particular style of playing appeals to me more than others. The wordiness comes from personal study to develop communication skills.