Nute Lock ???

[420tyme]

can someone tell me exactly what it is ?

i here people talking about flushing their plants and you dont want to get nute lock ,

but i never here anybody say what it is ,

sorry if its a stupid noob question

but id like to know so i can avoid it !!

 

[Justin_Credible]

nute lock is not just something that can be easily defined...but here it is in a nut shell...Nutrient lockout explained

Nutrient lockout happens when your plant can not access specific, or all nutrients in the growing medium, this is due to a chemical reaction within the medium/solution which prevents nutrients from being absorbed by the roots.

Aged nutrients can precipitate in the bottle, causing some of the ingredients to become solids or even evaporate, the same problem may also occur in the growing medium.

Lockout will display the same symptoms as nutrient deficiency; to help control this problem dispose of old liquid feed containers as you would old medicine and use fresh nutrients from a bottle that has been recently opened.

The following points can also be responsible for nutrient lockout.

* PH is incorrect or fluctuates.

* Single pack hydroponic solutions.

* Salt build up.

* A chemical reaction between 2 or more nutrient
solutions that are mixed together.

As per examples above here are a few that happened to J.C. I got nute lock because my ph was off. I had ph of 6.2 going in and this was causing too low of a ph and I was locking out nitrogen. I raised ph and the problem corrected itself.
hope this helps.

Another cause of nute lock is not properly watering in soil...am I correct in saying ur in soil. If I watered them too much and did not utilize the wet dry method, i got nutelock as well...had to flush some plants for a week in the middle of flower because of it.

 

[420tyme]

ok i got ,

thanks man ....