Yea it’s the tsl2000 by mars
Yea sounds right 3gram around .8EC(450ppm)
In my experience, ppm feeding has always produced better for me than g/ml. So I would have to agree with you on this.
tag me so i can check how it goes.
i may bear a little responsibility for that mess over there ....
It is amazing stuff, this MegaCrop. No, there is no N in the supplements, and I am sure that it is not the N causing problems here... The N is well managed in the multiple forms it is being used to prevent damage from over application. From the Megacrop site:
I find it fascinating how GLN is using N as their visual marker, so you can judge whether the nutrient levels are at the right place, by sight! This is brilliant!
I have recently come to believe those on the MC thread who have been saying all along that the MC base has everything in it... and the supplements are provided for those "who think they need them", growers like me who feel better if they are throwing everything they can at their plants, but I am now convinced that the BE and SC are mixed way too hot to be supplements for this current mix of MC, especially if it is as they say and all of this extra stuff has been added in there.
It seems obvious from the various overnutrient reactions that I have seen so far in this grow and the others being posted on the various threads, that the supplements are a quick way to get in trouble if you are not completely sure what you are doing and willing to constantly adjust. If you use the supplements right now, you are on your own... and please do not use the "suggested" dosages from the website with blind faith. Check out this graphic from the MC website, it actually all is in there:
So we are seeing a lot of K deficiencies and Calcium toxicity with people using this product in various ways and I suspect that most having these problems are overapplying either the MC or the supplements or both. When we give too much base MC we are over supplying Magnesium and Calcium, and in this new mix, we are giving way too much Calcium, as soon as we are giving so much MC that we see the deeper green color.
Again, from the MegaCrop site, look how heavily concentrated the Calcium is in this product. Surely only people running RO would be the only ones even close to needing extra Ca.
A quick check of Mulders Chart shows us that too much Ca and Mg tend to lock out everything, except N.
But look what else happens when you give too much Ca and Mg together. This sets up a double antagonism against K availability, and coincidentally this happens to be the most common lockout we are seeing among the users of MC. The other very common and confusing presentation we are seeing is Ca toxicity in the upper canopy, caused directly by the overapplication of MC, and this can quickly cascade into multiple problems.
And now I have an undocumented bag of something new... partially ground up MC. Since it is now mostly powder with very few large balls, logic demands that the resulting powder is more dense than the original Version 2, and by weight you are now applying more dense product than before. That 6g/gallon level becomes totally arbitrary upon this examination, so I think all of us need to reexamine how much we are giving after finding the new stuff in your mailbox. Six grams of this new stuff might actually be the equivalent of 7 grams of the old formulation mixed with large balls taking up space. Back to basics I say to all Megacroppers... adjust for the green.
I started by checking the ppm of the recommended 6.5g/gal. Then I added 1g/gal til my ppm stick was reading in a range I’m happy with.
The key to this is in the following statement:
@Emilya You did a great job getting them back to where you wanted them. Lesson learned!Full Bloom, Day 31
All continues to proceed along at the same pace we have been seeing, and with the MC at 5g/g the leaves are returning to a more healthy color overall while growth remains robust. There are still some tip burns way up high in the canopy telling me that the last few waterings still ended up with something too hot in the soil, but the very tip top growth is not showing burns, informing me that things are now on the right track.
All the leaves that have been partially damaged are still working well and in no danger of being pulled in by the plant.
I do agree now that once having determined that I had a nute overload, a flush may have gotten us to the finish without as much damage to the leaves, but these are working plants, and they now have scars to prove it. With an exception of a slight pause when the lockout was at its worse, keeping the nutes coming in at slightly less than the upper level has kept the buds rapidly developing.
Several of the buds are starting to get that conical look to them that is typical of week 5, and soon we will be doing a few backbuilding cuts around the tent to change the shape of the final buds. This is Pineapple Chunk though, so the buds will already tend to be more chunky than tapered... and I plan on helping that out where I can.
The buds are beginning to pack on trichomes and give us a clue as to what is coming. Only 2 or 3 of the kolas are going to end up achieving the "footlong bud" category, but there are going to be lots of strong chunky secondary buds way down at least 2' into the canopy.
This cycle I added an extra day to the watering cycle, just to see again how far we are pushing the plants by watering every other day. Today they got their normal 1 gallon apiece and with significantly less runoff than we have been seeing... hardly any, and I have just confirmed that they are indeed using more water than ever before. This extra day also takes care of the odd number of days in the month, and we will resume watering on the even numbered days of the month all through February.
