Hello DGC
Working on a dilemma with the 3rd no til run . Build a Soil light is the soil. This one is in veg about to move to flower room and noticed these deficiencies. This young lady is from ExoticGenetics from SeedshereNow. Cross of Dosi Do x Mint Chocolate Chip. Light is HLG 300Rspec. RH is 50-60. 15 gal fabric pots. Temps in 70-80 range. I pH filtered water to 6.2 to 6.5. Recharge weekly. Top dress with BAS craft blend and Grokashi. Compost Tea is used as well.
In a recent post about no till I believe SOUP pointed out the the small containers didn’t have enough of a battery charge for the plant. One of my main goals for the no till is not having to find a spot to dump my ( formally) salty ex soil. Is what I am seeing a result of not enough ” charge ” ? If not what am I seeing? My lizard grain feed with foliar if it is a deficiency But is that just short term fix? How do we keep the no till ” charged ” for repeated uses if that is the issue.
Thank you DGC
to be honest i see leaf tips curling to the side. thats the first sign of ph issues. high soil ph causes calcium and mag deficiencies to show first typically. get a test kit and do a soil ph test before you decide to add anything. 3rd to 5th run you want to be testing your npk as well so you know where your at. how often do you do your top dress? if your only doing that once per cycle you might not be adding enough back in. you keep the no till charged by making sure you have enough npk and micro nutrients and also making sure you have a good microbe population. this is achieved by top dressing with dry amendments for npk/micro or with castings/compost/compost tea/recharge/ indigenous micro-organisms for microbes.
I top dress weekly with craft blend and grow kashi. I like your ph tip. I usually ph to 6..5 to 6.6. Bringing that down may help.
Outside of initial replanting into pot I really haven’t added much worm casings.
I work on a soil test.
Can’t see the region of the plant where the effected leaves are from. Your battery looks to be overcharged with N with possibly a P deficiency from N locking out P and possibly Ca too. Now it could be the light in the photo but it looks very dark green with leaf drooping.
Maybe to much craft blend. Grokashi will make amendments available much faster. Id just run plain water days to let things balance out.
Keeping a no till system going long term is all about maintaining soil balance. As your plants use up nutrients in the soil, the grower needs to guesstimate what has been used up and what needs to be added to the soil to get it back into balance. This isn’t always straightforward because plants often use different nutrients at different rates. This means the grower has to adjust their topdressing based on what they think the soil is lacking, or make a guess based on a recipe thats been developed by other growers using a similar system.
The BAS Craft blend is not really designed to be a balanced ingredient, so it’s not really the best product to use for replenishing used soil. Craft blend is a mix of ALL the soil amendments build a soil sells. It’s a great product, but the “every ingredient combined” approach can lead to imbalances if that’s all you’ve been using to amend your soil.
When it comes to replenishing used soil, you really need a more targeted approach. This is why build a soil sells reamending kits that include a balanced mix of nutrients specifically formulated to replenish used soil in a balanced way.
Looking at your plants, it looks like you’ve got excesses of some nutrients (nitrogen for sure) and this is probably causing availability issues with other nutrients.
For now I would give them a heavy dose of recharge and back off the topdressing for a while. There’s plenty of nutrient in the soil, it’s just not available to your plants because nutrition is out of balance. Recharge and time should help pull them back to balance.
Then after this run I would consider dumping out your pots and mixing in some fresh soil and compost. Mixing the out of balance soil with some fresh soil and compost should help bring it closer to balance and help sort out any excesses or deficiencies.
I also recommend using the reamend kit or the build a flower kit from build a soil instead of the craft blend. Craft blend is great in small amounts or used for minor topdressing in large beds, but with smaller pots like 15 gals I recommend using a more targeted approach with your topdressing. The reamend and build a flower kits are a much better option for maintaining balance over time.👍
TY SOUP and all. I have relied on the craft blend and hit them pretty hard with it.I cant thank you all enough for all the good you do.
Ey man, tbh I think that looks like a little bit of a PH and/or lock out issue! Reason I say that is, I have a cut of Peanut butter n chocolate that I sifted and selected myself outta 120 seeds and I also have 2 males from that aswell and I’ve had them all and ran them for prolly almost 2 years now! All that being said, from what you told us, you’ve got alot going on there, but I don’t see a whole lot of balance, that Craft blend I believe and I may be wrong but I’m pretty sure that just a starting point so if it isn’t your ph pen possibly being outta wack or something, I think It may be a balance issue. The reason I say that with confidence with this particular instance is, that PBC is a temperamental little bitch!! Like forreal yo!! And DO NOT!!! GO even 1 day past 60 days with her if you have anything else remotely close to her because, she WILL THROW NANERS!! That part I will gaurantee!!! Literally every single female we had did that!! And a handful of the males!