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seems like most people need to supplement cal and mag because the coir breaks down and steals it from the plant - or so I've read

Hi Emilya - yes it's your recipe but I hadn't made enough of it so I ran out of it; and it takes a while to make to ferment. I actually didn't realize how important calcium and mag were in a coir grow and how much I'd need. ... Also I got confused about whether to put molasses on coir - a lot...

Thanks - will try using tap water and keeping an eye on them

I have a calcium deficiency on a plant - there are at this stage just a small percentage of leaves with just a few spots. I don't have any calmag right now ( I was actually using the fermented eggshell organic equivalent). I only have I think 2 or 3 weeks left till harvest and for a variety of...

thanks - glad to hear

The problem I really have is that I don't know if turning the compost would get rid of anything harmful to my plants that was created when it went anaerobic

I was making some compost and didn't pay attention to turning it. Went very anaerobic - bad smell. I see on many gardening forums the answer is to just turn it until the smell goes but is this good enough for my ladies. Do I have to wait a safe length of time so I know all the bad bacteria are...

thanks for answers ... so does that mean that the plant nutrients ( in a chemical setup - I'm using the flora micro/bloom lucas formula ) are sort of dictated to by how much water they need ... or do the two ( nutrient needs and water needs ) usually just happen to co-incide ? Before I looked...

I know this must be obvious but for some reason I can't get my head around it or find the answer anywhere. When I add my nutrients to water for feeding, then at that point do I just use the feed with that as if it was water, watering whenever the plant requires? There is a lot of material about...

No worries - I suppose it's funny - Plant's doing better I haven't watered it in a while I think it was overwatering after going in the new pot or something

Seems a good few people on this forum ( including at least one of the mods) use diluted urine for nitrogen ... so ??? IDK :eek: Anyway tbh I doubt that's the problem since a) I only used a tiny bit and b) right or wrong it does seem to be at least a reasonably common practice. I probably wont...

Thanks I'll try that out - I'm assuming you're thinking it was overwatering. I got it from the royal queen seeds page on organic growing. It's in many other places on the web too - linked a couple below. I just thought it was a standard organic fertilizer tbh going by what I read. I never...

See the bottom leaves bending over. I don't know whether this is overwatering, underwatering, or something else. My plant had gotten pretty dry and it looked to me like it needed watering. The top layer of soil was dry and it hadn't been watered in a couple of days I think. Also the leaves...

Thanks Emelya