Magnesium deficiency?

[Kinezokyprios]

You can try many other local nutrients too.
I just searched a bit and found this Irish site

Non-Animal Origin Fertilizers for Organic Growing.

We supply the full range of approved organic fertilizers, crop nutrients, plant food and soil conditioners for organic producers in Ireland. This is range of non-animal based fertilisers.

www.fruithillfarm.com

I am sure there are many others and many stores to get them. And they are much cheaper and for sure much better than biobizz.
For indoors prefer vegan nutrients, because non vegan will smell either fish of manure stench.

 

[StevOrganic]

You can try many other local nutrients too.
I just searched a bit and found this Irish site

Non-Animal Origin Fertilizers for Organic Growing.

We supply the full range of approved organic fertilizers, crop nutrients, plant food and soil conditioners for organic producers in Ireland. This is range of non-animal based fertilisers.

www.fruithillfarm.com

I am sure there are many others and many stores to get them. And they are much cheaper and for sure much better than biobizz.
For indoors prefer vegan nutrients, because non vegan will smell either fish of manure stench.

Good stuff I will look into that as I am actually planning to start a greenhouse this spring and also planting some potatoes in raised beds so the same organic fertiliser can do for both my vegetables and my flowers

I am going to put my head down and do some research on things I can do myself compost tea and the likes. Thanks again for your time and patience giving me this info

 

[bad dragon bzzz]

Pk13/14 does that have a pm rating of 13/14? Biobizz grow/fish/bloom is 4,6,8 ish so only half as strong as pk.
Biobizz rootjuice/bioheaven has 0.0/0.1/0.01 so practically nothing in them.... At x4 the cost of grow/bloom, this eejit has only bought them once..... Could I see taste feel any improvements using them? No. Bloom still has a bit of N
. I have always meant to get some pk1314 but after 5 years it's unlikely to happen now.
Thoughts....drop the bloom and back off a bit on pm.
Keep er lit

 

[Kinezokyprios]

You need to give nitrogen up to the very end or the plants will die. That is the reason biobizz keeps the biogrow with 4ml dose up to the last week in its schedule. Potassium does the work for taste and flavour. But cannabis cannot process so much, that's why chemical fertilizers rich in potassium produce bud that has inferior taste/smell to organic grows in soil, as any hydro grower would admit if honest. Overall, especially autos that are small plants, cannabis needs the minimum of nutrients possible. The more food and water you provide the more you lose in flavour/taste, potency etc.

 

[StevOrganic]

You need to give nitrogen up to the very end or the plants will die. That is the reason biobizz keeps the biogrow with 4ml dose up to the last week in its schedule. Potassium does the work for taste and flavour. But cannabis cannot process so much, that's why chemical fertilizers rich in potassium produce bud that has inferior taste/smell to organic grows in soil, as any hydro grower would admit if honest. Overall, especially autos that are small plants, cannabis needs the minimum of nutrients possible. The more food and water you provide the more you lose in flavour/taste, potency etc.

Hey man just a quick question for you as you have used Bio Bud before would I be doing more harm than good feeding at this stage? I was planning on giving the plant a last feed including the Bio Bud the images are yesterday day 70 the trichomes are still clear but most hairs are nearly orange at this stage.

I am due to feed tomorrow day 72 was going to feed a small amount base nutes with G.O bud then I would have 4 plain waters taking me up to exactly 2 weeks after photo day 84 then chop 3 days later when she dries out day 87.

So I suppose the question is does this look like a plant that can go for another 2.5 weeks without loss of potency or would it be best to just start the plain water tomorrow.

To give you a better idea of environment which might impact the time taken to mature.

I'm running 2 micro 100w cob led and temp in tent lights on is 80-82f and lights out 68-72f not much fluctuation and humidity staying between 40-50%, the light schedule is 20/4 and it's in a 15l airpot lightmix soil with added perlite.

Sorry for being a nuisance I just want her to turn out the best possible

 

[Kinezokyprios]

Keep on feeding until the vast majority of trichomes are milky. The pistils will turn orange and if you wish you can chop but it is a waste since with one or two weeks of proper growth you will get maximum potency. Pistils are just an indication, trichomes matter. Don't worry about the 2 weeks of flushing, trichomes will.not turn all amber immediately and of course if you are totally organic by that time you can skip flushing altogether - big debate on this but can be done. Just check the trichomes on the microscope every day and you will know when to stop feeding and begin the chop process.

 

[Kinezokyprios]

And most of all don't count in human days. Plants have their own biorythms. For example I have 8 plants currently that are my personal creation as a strain(I made a local sativa landrace an auto). Week eleven and they still need a full 4 weeks more, but then again maybe not so I just watch on them daily. But I also have 1 fast buds green crack that as I see it will need 16 weeks approximately and 2 fast buds gorilla glue that started blooming in week 3 and now in week 5 they are in mid flowering. They don't care about our own time they have theirs to follow.

 

[StevOrganic]

Keep on feeding until the vast majority of trichomes are milky. The pistils will turn orange and if you wish you can chop but it is a waste since with one or two weeks of proper growth you will get maximum potency. Pistils are just an indication, trichomes matter. Don't worry about the 2 weeks of flushing, trichomes will.not turn all amber immediately and of course if you are totally organic by that time you can skip flushing altogether - big debate on this but can be done. Just check the trichomes on the microscope every day and you will know when to stop feeding and begin the chop process.

I went ahead and fed with 4ml bio bud, 3ml bioheaven, 1ml biogrow, 3ml bloom and 3ml Topmax. I only used a couple of mls of calmag and last time using was a week ago so fairly close to all organic I'd say I could get away with just 3 plain waters.

I tested what you say on the second plant I grew because I read that alot of people didn't bother flushing with organics nutes. I used the biobizz range and only gave 1 plain water at the end and the buds didn't have the same nice aroma and took longer to come good with the cure.

And most of all don't count in human days. Plants have their own biorythms. For example I have 8 plants currently that are my personal creation as a strain(I made a local sativa landrace an auto). Week eleven and they still need a full 4 weeks more, but then again maybe not so I just watch on them daily. But I also have 1 fast buds green crack that as I see it will need 16 weeks approximately and 2 fast buds gorilla glue that started blooming in week 3 and now in week 5 they are in mid flowering. They don't care about our own time they have theirs to follow.

This is very interesting so I'll just go with the trichomes then and never mind all else thanks man

 

[Kinezokyprios]

Curing needs over a month to be complete. I know old school guys that were curing for six months before smoking. Literally smoking last year's crop. Of course we don't need such extremes but one needs over a month spent on curing for the optimum result.
Well flushing or not is big debate. I grow organic so I don't bother so much, maybe water 1 time with top max (to force the last bit of gain possible) and 2 times plain water, about a week. To tell you the truth my indicator of flushing or not is by chewing a few sugar leaves the last week of grow, if they are bitter I flush, if not I don't. Just like I would treat lettuce.

 

[StevOrganic]

Curing needs over a month to be complete. I know old school guys that were curing for six months before smoking. Literally smoking last year's crop. Of course we don't need such extremes but one needs over a month spent on curing for the optimum result.
Well flushing or not is big debate. I grow organic so I don't bother so much, maybe water 1 time with top max (to force the last bit of gain possible) and 2 times plain water, about a week. To tell you the truth my indicator of flushing or not is by chewing a few sugar leaves the last week of grow, if they are bitter I flush, if not I don't. Just like I would treat lettuce.

Well for sure I found with the two plants I have harvested so far that both didn't taste really nice until around the 2 month mark when it was nearly gone. Cool I've been chewing the odd leaf I snip off the plant anyway so that seems like a logical way to tell if the flower is going to be tasting of nutrients or not will give it a try.

What would be your recommendation for an organic way to keep calmag levels in check because magnesium deficiency seems to sneak up start of flowering would dolomite lime watered in after a few weeks do the trick?