Blazer420
New Member
My buddy and I were talking last night and we ran into something that we didn't/couldn't find an answer for.
He is doing his first run not only in soil (VermiFire) but also using organic nutes - Roots specifically.
his ph has been slowly and steadily rising. Now he is at the point where I believe he is having some micro-nutrient lockout. His plants are showing signs of a boron, iron, magnesium deficiency. There might be some other macro lockout happening as well.
We started talking about how to bring his ph down, and one thing came up that is making him wait to correct the problem until he can get a good answer. If he truly does have a ph induced nute lockout, when he corrects it, what happens to the abundance of nutes that have been building up in his soil? Are they suddenly all available to the plant and might cause a nute burn?
In hydro the answer seems a bit more simple in that a res change and a ph adjust would be just fine, but its not like you can just go swapping out soils.
Thanks for your help,
B-
He is doing his first run not only in soil (VermiFire) but also using organic nutes - Roots specifically.
his ph has been slowly and steadily rising. Now he is at the point where I believe he is having some micro-nutrient lockout. His plants are showing signs of a boron, iron, magnesium deficiency. There might be some other macro lockout happening as well.
We started talking about how to bring his ph down, and one thing came up that is making him wait to correct the problem until he can get a good answer. If he truly does have a ph induced nute lockout, when he corrects it, what happens to the abundance of nutes that have been building up in his soil? Are they suddenly all available to the plant and might cause a nute burn?
In hydro the answer seems a bit more simple in that a res change and a ph adjust would be just fine, but its not like you can just go swapping out soils.
Thanks for your help,
B-