Turbo Bucket's Take On RADDWC: Grow Room Build-Up

[Furcifer]

Looking real nice TB! .

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[TurboBucket]

Thanks furci!

Just finished a defol.

quite a bit of claw on this plant and she's not yellowing on the bottom yet. Her flowers are a little slower than the rest but building in really well. I'm already feeding Max recommended PK booster, but looks like I can run hotter. My question is can I go ahead and crank up the PK higher to push my overall N lower or will it start throwing things out of whack?

 

[Furcifer]

Your still using Bonicare line up?
In a three part base nutrient.
I will decrease the grow "N" product.
While increasing the "P,K".
Just pior to flip I'll start increasing "K" with Potash. (additional to bloom part).
By the half way point of flowering (4,5 week) "Grow" portion of base nutes is out.
There is enouph "N" in "Micro.
Than all you need is Calcium supplement.
I use a raw base Calcium usually will have Magnesium with it.
Be careful of products that chelate Cal to "N" for delivery. Only a few are a nitrate that is not availiable to plants.
Yellowing, Death of bottom older leaves are a natural process (in moderation).

Hope this helps.

Have a great day!

 

[Furcifer]

Forgot....NICE defol. Thinning of the forest!

 

[TurboBucket]

Mines not the three part. I have grow, and Bloom and their PK booster. I started Bloom one week before 12/12 and started adding PK booster 2 weeks in bc they seemed heavy on N. So I backed off the Bloom (1-4-5) and slowly started adding PK {0-10-6}. Now I'm a month in and running full PK {5ml/gal} and Bloom at half (12ml/gal) with silica, and calmag in tap water my last ppm was 900. I replace water with tea once every two weeks, and add great white at that time. Water water feed.

 

[Furcifer]

That's sound right to reduce the bloom In a 2 part.
Yea, don't be afraid to up the PK as needed.
If you think your still getting too much "N". Reduce the Bloom. The only other element probably in there is magnesium. It's covered in the cal/mag.
I forgot to that I also use a Humic acid from Leonardite throughout the whole grow.

 

[TurboBucket]

Right on.. Humic acid promotes break down of organic material for uptake right? The bloom contains some as well as the tea both from leonardite. I'm sure the tea is contributing some N. I'll crank the pk boost a lil higher and leave the bloom alone to keep some humic acid in the soil.

 

[TurboBucket]

For anyone else interested:
How does humic acid benefit your plants?
Humic acid increases nutrient uptake, drought tolerance, and seed germination. It increases the microbial activity in the soil, making it an excellent root stimulator. Humic acid increases the availability of nutrients in our fertilizers and in those already existing in your soil. It will help to aerate the soil from the inside. It will also help to lower the pH of the soil to a more neutral level and will flush high levels of salts out of the root zone, all of which will help to promote better plant health and growth.
-drearth .com

 

[TheMadDabber]

I recently added Liquid karma to my line up. For the exact reason you stated. Combined with my voodoo juice pirhana and molasses it has produced a noticeable growth boost above ground that I attribute to the success sub surface

 

[TurboBucket]

I was looking at that and fulvex. Trying to find the labeling for them to see what's in em.

 

[TheMadDabber]

I was looking at that and fulvex. Trying to find the labeling for them to see what's in em.

So I know LK contains humic acid, yucca plant matter (food for micro beasties) ugh lemme just snap ya a pic bud!

 

[TurboBucket]

Perfect thanks!

 

[Furcifer]

For anyone else interested:
How does humic acid benefit your plants?
Humic acid increases nutrient uptake, drought tolerance, and seed germination. It increases the microbial activity in the soil, making it an excellent root stimulator. Humic acid increases the availability of nutrients in our fertilizers and in those already existing in your soil. It will help to aerate the soil from the inside. It will also help to lower the pH of the soil to a more neutral level and will flush high levels of salts out of the root zone, all of which will help to promote better plant health and growth.
-drearth .com

EXCELLENT!
One more to add...also is a natural chelateor for delivery (make avialiabe) nutrients such as iron, cal, mag, copper, boron.....

 

[TurboBucket]

Fed everyone last night.
Botanicare nutes/ gal
PB pro bloom soil/ 12.5ml
Hydroplex/ 7ml
Silica blast/ 3ml
Calmag+/ 2ml
Ppm 1010
pH 6.5

 

[TurboBucket]

 

[TurboBucket]

Took some of the clones out of stasis today. Looks like I lost one, seems to have fallen down inside the bag and drowned. Dipped em and threw em in the Dewey with the other scraggly clones from the experiment. (I trimmed all and dipped half of these.)

Notes on the stasis clones:
They did start to flower in there so I need more light exposure. And some of them started striking roots. When I cut them I left the stems long to be able to trim for a fresh cut before dipping and sticking in the cloner. If they struck roots I didn't trim before the dip. If they had not I trimmed then dipped. Water is well water with z7 and 2ml pureblend tea

 

[Pennywise]

Good work with the clones

 

[TurboBucket]

Shots of the room.

New phone so even better camera now till I can get the Nikon fixed.

Hope everyone has had a joyous holiday so far! Many thanks to this wonderful community!

 

[TurboBucket]

Good work with the clones

Thanks penny

 

[TurboBucket]

Today's feeding:
Nutes/gal
Pb bloom 10ml
Hydroplex 7ml
Silica blast 5ml
Cal mag+ 4
pH 6.4
Ppm 900