Last time 7/31 was light calmag 3ml per gal (they only calmag they ever got) and they both took 1/3 to 1/2 gal. Yes a little runoff is typical. After killing several seedlings and frustrating myself, I now wait till the moisture meter gets into the dry category AND the weight checks out. (Light).
Soil type? Just dont want to re read the whole thread lol
Also @garrigan62 is a wizzard with indoor too.
No problem friend. Ask me anything. Fox farm happy frog.
When you add calmag, make sure that it’s the FIRST thing you add to your water. It’s a science thing, not an opinion!
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well it seems its time to feed them? That soil is good for maybe 6 weeks at best.The big issue with soils like that in a pot is once the roots hit the walls of the pot, it doesnt take long for them to consume the nutrition in the medium. Typically, I dont flower in the home so Im not the guy to ask in this department. My weed is always finished outside.
However, when my indoor vegging plants , grown in promix and supersoil, hit the side of the pot, I pot up with fresh supersoil/ promix to extend the vegging and prep them for transplant outdoors. I can say with certainty that it doesnt take long for a pot bound plant to starve shortly after the roots are crammed.
In short, the FF soil becomes a hydro grow around week 6 or 7 and should be considered a hydro grow from that point on.
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You’re awesome. Thank you for helping me. She did start acting up around week 7 - latter part of 6. I think I’ll feed them this evening. Plants get rained on all the time. Sometime they get a whole lot of rain. She is hungry and almost done anyhow. I’d think they’ll be ok. I’m hoping @Myfriendis410 picks up the wire in the next few hours. But if I don’t hear otherwise it’s supper time.
When you say almost done, how far into flower is she? Picture please? Whole plant and bud porn shot if you can
I would say, 1 decent feed with your bud food of choice and then straight water for the duration, you dont want nute weed, that sucks
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Water/feed on a normal cycle. That’s what I mean. Do not water/feed until soil is ready (dry).
Depleted soil will buffer better than soilless media so I have advised running a HIGH soilless and a LOW soil TDS: somewhat higher than soilless media for that reason. When soil is fresh it is more like 3,000 ppm but properly blended will not burn plants. You are now in a ‘sorta soilless’ grow as your medium is depleted and you will be supplementing from now til harvest.
Add everything to water THEN adjust TDS. THEN PH to range.
This will finish with a water only for the last couple of weeks of grow. You are not there yet.
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Yep! Thats what I was expecting! I just wanted you to finish what you started… the plants are nearing the finish line but not ready yet. It is amazing though at how fast that type if soil runs out if gas. Its like a light switch of sorts.
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Hey @Myfriendis410 … my plants are exploding!
We finally got some summer! The damn things are crowding out my tomatoes!
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It absolutely turned off one day. Problem is I had just given her an ultra light 15% of recommended dose of nutes. So I thought I shocked her with nutes. Appears the timing was shitty and I misread the situation. Soil ran out of gas AND I didn’t supplement her. Now I know. First grow lessons I guess.
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You got it bud. I’ll wait till she dries out and then hit with week 9. Thanks for clarifying the order. You guys have been great and I sincerely appreciate the help.
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Hey its ok, you are going to get some great herb out of this, and I have total faith in his call.
Holy cow I’m jealous lol. Won’t be able to start my grow until winter.
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Im thinking I may get a few pounds of bud off of those? 
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For sure if you can dodge all of the outdoor hazards haha.
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I plant to dry sift all of it, and give the c grade material to a lady down the street that does herbal remedies.
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How do you know what the ppm of the nute solution should be based on the runoff numbers I provided? You derived 1200. How?
Is it:
ppm from the grow guide - runoff ppm = nute ppm
Hypothetical: week 9 on the trio grow chart calls for 1750-1960 ppm
Run off was 841ppm
1960-841 = 1119 (rounded to 1200).
I’m trying to back into the math so I can sort this out next time.
