Greetings all, from St-Jacobs, ON! Cannabis seems to hate my water, and keeps getting cranky after a few weeks. This time of course in flower, and it has progressed to my main bud as seen in the pic Should I just throw this thing completely out and try again? I am a stubborn mofo and determined to experiment until I can make my hard water composition actually work for me. I don't know if this means cutting my water down with RO, or adding something to it, or adding something to the soil.. But I would love your advice Thanks again experts, I won't be deterred and have tons of babies in veg to try again, and again, and again Media: KIS Mix Blended Soil | Black Swallow Living Soils, Brantford ON (blackswallowsoil.com) Lighting: HLG-550 R-Spec Water: Tap from Mannheim Water Treatment Plant. Kitchener-Waterloo, ON Water Composition: https://www.icmag.com/attachments/1714068512427-png.18993281/ Water PPM: 310-350 Water pH: 8.0 settles down to mid 7 and then I GH pH Down to 6.5 Just wondering if I should throw this out, would it stress nanner from the crispy leaves? I was listening to the Cannabis Science podcast and on episode 3 or so they had Clackamas Coots on and he seems to be a huge believer that enough castings can fix ANYTHING. They're loaded with natural calcium and magnesium and all kinds of trace stuff. Will buffer your water problems and fix them up as long as there's sufficient castings in the media that aren't spent etc.. So I added both a slurry to top dress and just fed them the tea as well Huge thanks again, just wondering if I should pitch this and try again. I have so many clones in veg I can never flower them all
At that stage definitely don't toss it. Not really sure if I see anything wrong. The purple on the leaves looks like mine outdoor when the temps start to drop. I wouldn't worry about it. Definitely let her finish. Sent from my LM-X420 using Grasscity Forum mobile app
Thank you so much, I just didn't know what I'm looking at, novice here! A huge thanks for your input Edit - apparently I have two accounts and couldn't recover this one but is logged in on my phone. Need mod help I guess oops
This reply above came from me - I appear to be logged in to one account on this desktop yet had to create a new one on my phone - need to delete or consolidate these if possible! I'm brand new here, thanks again
This is off. Ur brand new but one account is from 2019 and the other from 2010? Am I tripping? LOL wtf. Sent from my LM-X420 using Grasscity Forum mobile app
Yeah it appears my PC has a login for this account here, and because I couldn't recover the password, I had to create a second account but did not want to on the mobile device. Sorry about this, wasn't a malicious or intentional thing
Your water is ~ok. You can cut it, but it has lots of calcium and magnesium. Trick is making it available for your plant. I would suggest experimenting with nitric acid as this will turn that hard water to calcium nitrate (fertilizer). I would also cut the water with RO, like 50/50 or so. Maybe even less. I would practice feeding to ~10% runoff since the elements in your tap will not wash out otherwise. As far as nutes, I'd look at hitting that plant with some finisher, ie. K & P = potassium phosphate. It's a natural mineral, so still organic in my books.
i grew a nice plant in perlite and casting once water only the whole grow but back to your question cant you just buy gallons of spring water the cost is negligible i used to use bottled water now i just let mine sit overnight
More advice . Any time you have those bud leaves starting to die . You should get some snips and take them all off asap before they protrude into the bud. Its only cosmetic . Nobody wants a bud that looks ugly . Today my area they rather have vacuum packed then tumbled to death then throw its kief back on top of it so it looks good . Then they can call them moon rocks or say its 35 % thc bs . My advice turned into bitching sorry .