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Adding dolomite flowering??
- Thread starter trixP
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NO not to the soil. The low pH is a sign of too many salts in the substrate If your incoming water pH is 6.3 with with nutrients, that should be enough to buffer the pH over time. Also if you raise the incoming pH just a little to 6.5 and or reduce the amount of nutrients in the water that should buffer the pH as well.
trixP
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Well I put 3 tablespoon in 7 gal hope that doesn’t fuck shit up to much
Only added to one
trixP
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What I’m doing going forward wasn’t aware could do this
Only added to the bigger yellower plant and not much hoping for best case still have 5/6 weeks to go
Terpyterps
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I do add little bit dolomite always for my organic soil grow and also when transition to flower add bit more with other top dress nutrients. Might add also later on once or twice BioBizz calmag if they are looking like they might benefit from it. Only thing is that you have to train your eyes to see the problems one or two weeks before.
Terpyterps
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Organic soil is good in that you don’t have to check your PH and let the microbes take care of that.
Old Uncle Ben
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Nothing wrong with a pH of 5.8. 6.5 might be more in line but I don't think you need to worry about certain elements being locked out. How do the plants look? That's all that counts.
Terpyterps
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That happens from time to time. Just try again later.
X15
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I generally lose space in the top of the pot due to the root mass in the pot getting large. It’s always a great idea to add worm castings when top dressing. Nice work!
Terpyterps
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Yes, it’s easy way to keep your plants having those micronutrients and boost again microbial life also. It makes my life easier when I have few things less to do when microbes are taking care of PH. I have 6 gallon pots and I give my plants every 2-4 days water so far, but I give them only 1L of water each plant, idea here is that I don’t let my soil dry too much because of the microbes. So far that seems to be sweet spot for these plants, but I know that every single plant is different and one of them Strawberry Gorilla from Fast Buds is bit finicky and I might have to skip once in a while one watering with her, but other than that they are doing good. I recommend keeping a record for the amount and sequence of watering when you have multiple cultivars in your grow. It helps seeing things in a bigger picture what might be hard if you don’t have any data. I do also add some special events too, example adding Green Sensation, because I can backtrack if there is some issues later on.
Terpyterps
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No idea of the security. Solid question though. I’ll switch to smaller ones next run, might go just with 3-4 gallon pots.
