Using BioTabs starter kit from seed

Bob's Auto's said:

Amazing growth and exactly what you'd expect using BioTabs
Let them bennies do all the hard work, just don't forget to feed them once in a while. That's where the Orgatrex is for.
As soon as flower starts it's time to start thinking about making some PK Booster Compost tea, heavily diluted it's a great transition from the Nitrate converting bacteria to the Potassium and Phosphor converting bacteria. But we'll talk when you get there.

Great work, keep it going and you're going to have a nice harvest to enjoy

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I was out of town 3 times relying on blumats. I know it's a bit late but I gave pk booster compost tee at day 62. I used 3 liters of water and 5l/h capacity pump with airstones. Between day 50 and 60 I spotted some leaves with red brown bronze parts and supposed it's calcium deficiency. im thinking to use bio pk 5-8 in few days then compost again and repeat it. I think my buds could be a bit bigger this far in the grow.

I havent used silicium flash. I had 10 tablets and six pots. I did the heavy orgatrex feeding around day 40. and waited 20 more days for the first compost tee.

Give 'm a teaspoon of Cal/Mag (any brand will do) added to a gallon of water. And add some wetting agent, I use one drop of dishwashing soap.
Give 'm a good foliar soaking with the stuff and make sure the underside of the leaves get wet.

How's the soil? Not to wet? Have a whiff of the underside of the pot(s). Does it smell sour? Usually with BioTabs the issue isn't a deficiency, but rather something causing a deficiency. ie, soil to wet killing off roots and other stuff...

Silicium Flash is something to use in the beginning of the grow, while you wait until the bennies start converting nutrients and making them available. Only when you truly have a deficiency, I would recommend using Silicium Flash. Otherwise it's wasted money as those nutrients inside will be readily available and most likely contribute to the thing that's causing the deficiency in the first place.

10 BioTabs in 6 pots isn't much, but then again cannabis doesn't need much to get around. An auto even less then a Photo...But to optimize things I would recommend using the right amount of tabs in the future. You'll surely notice the difference.

You used Orgatrex. Did you use Bactrex as well? I absolutely love the product and while my soil is absolutely teaming with life, I still use in the early days to give the right bacteria a boost. Use Orgatrex as a feed for those bacteria. They feast on the carbs and multiply like crazy. And that's what you need...a healthy soil life which does the heavy lifting for us. Just need to keep the workfolk happy

I have biobizz calmag i can use.
I used bactrex everytime I used orgatrex also added to the compost tea. im using blumats since beginning. they were drinking more during stretching. now they drink a bit less. I never had run-off but my pots felt quite heavy all the time. Recently I had to invest in dehumidifier my rh has been around %75. I think this caused problems within the plants and soil as well.

and I defoliated like crazy many days it just wasnt enough for them
wiped off most of the lower parts.

Almost a year passed I am putting the last pictures of that grow. It went well and managed to get good results.



After a year I am doing very similar grow this time LSD Auto from Barney's.
Before asking for advice let me explain what I did.
I have 5G Air Pots filled with biobizz lightmix and worm humus (30%) plus the ingredients for Biotabs Classic Strategy except that I place the actual tablets later around day 25.
around the same time soaking the seeds I saturate the soil as well with a solution of orgatrex and bactrex as usual. after few days they come out and the next 2 weeks I give almost no water. The pots stay wet from the initial soaking. I just water a bit the jiffy plugs if they look dry. Since im adding no extra perlite it takes even more time than you expect.
around day 25 I placed two tablets for each pot 5-10 cm deep and also installed the blumat watering system and start preparing for compost tees and other feedings. After some time in the flowering I start experiencing many kinds of deficiencies which look like calmag and P purple stems.
I finally figured out the reason which is probably overwatering. Now I get why you ask if the soil is too wet.
ı think im overwatering my plants with blumat and after a month I start seeing some deficiencies and effected bud growth
by the way my plants never look droopy they pray totally fine but whenever I lift the pots they feel heavy like someone just watered them. There is no runoff. Blumats usually keep the soil at a constant moisture level and people always say don't dry out the top layer when organic so I was always afraid to underwater which led me overwatering.
Does my explanation makes sense?
4x4 area 4 plants at day 64 here in the photos. I gave 3 times compost tee already along with bio pk 5-8. The plant on the left was growing well but flowering slowly compared to other and started to have purple stems, bronze spots on leaves later on. I reduced the water she gets and immediately become faster flowering and frostier.
now the plant on the right seems to have ph lock out im all reducing the water they get. Am I on the right path here?
this is day 26
this is day 40 looks very nice.

having leaves like this one soon purple stems will follow.

you can notice slow flowering on bottom left and right plants day 53

day 63

interesting issues

do you think those are related to overwatering? they drink 1.5 L a day it's not much but the pots feel heavy.