DiamondLevelGrower
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Sadly, I use plastic lol.You can often actually see the salt build up on a fabric pot. It looks like white frost on the outside of the pot. It happens in any potted plant,. In one of my lives I was the head gardener at a college. After a while even clay pots will have a salt buildup on them. Growing in pots is much different that growing in outdoor soils.
Thanks alot. This thread alone has taught me more in 1 day than I have learned in probably a month of different readings lol.If you are using synthetic nutes, salts are building up. When you start seeing deficiencies that you can't explain, salt lockout should always be the first suspicion in these sorts of grows. Let's say that you are running to 20% runoff, and almost no one does that unless they are actually trying to do a mini flush each time they water. It will take 5 waterings to get to 100% of the container size, or 1/3 of a regular actually trying to do it right, flush. This means that with each watering you are doing 1/15th of an actual full flush, not 20%. No, it is hardly enough to do the job, not to mention that at each watering you are adding more nutes which will cause more salts.