Is there any way to Fix Nitrogen Claw?!?!?!?!?!?!

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Maya12

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my kali mist has it and it looks like its getting worse, i flushed it and that didnt seem to help, any advice?:cry:
 
massah

massah

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you probably salt locked out everything else except nitrogen making it readily available...when you flushed how long ago was that...and how large is your container...and how much water did you flush with...
 
Ringsixty

Ringsixty

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You flushed... how long have you waited to see any results? Recovery isn't going to happen overnight or in a few days. I had a simular issue...took about a week to notice the change. In my case it got better,
Results may vary. " Battery's not included" :lol:
 
LT1RX7 Drifter

LT1RX7 Drifter

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do a run-off test, any advice taken with out doing so is a "fail" in the making, salt lock out is the likely issue, you could root prune and repot it on fresh soil if you wanted to speed up the recovery time
 
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Maya12

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i flushed 2 days ago, and my container is a 5 gallon pot and flushed it with 4 gallons of phd water, after the next they seemed to get worse lookin,
by the way whats a run off test?
 
LT1RX7 Drifter

LT1RX7 Drifter

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adower said:
Do you have soil with preloaded nutes? If so your flushing is making it worse.
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There are 3 measurements that are important to know when you are caring for plants growing in a soil or soilless medium.
The first is the pH of your source water.
Next is the pH of your nutrient solution after the fertilizers and supplements are added.
Last is the pH of your soil. But that's the hard one! You can't just stick a pH meter in the dirt and get an accurate reading, and the cheap metal-probed meters that show this are usually not all that precise.

So how does one determine soil pH accurately? With a runoff test! First, measure the pH of your tap water and record it. As an example, let's say that it is 7.0, exactly neutral.

Now place the pot over a clean rinsed container and pour enough water through the soil to start dripping out the bottom. Collect about 4 ounces of runoff water. Check to see if it is discolored as well.

Now, if you only have liquid indicator, which is just fine, pour this water into a clean small tube or the test vial that came with your pH testing kit.Add a few drops of indicator solution, shake, and read the color change.
If you have a meter, simply stick the electrode in the water and read.

Let's say that your runoff comes out at 6.5. How did that happen? The water passed through a more acidic matrix and dropped its pH. You can assume that your true soil pH is a couple tenths of a pH point lower than the runoff in this case- I'd assume about a 6.2. If it comes out HIGHER, just go in the opposite direction. If it came out 7.5, you can assume that you need to drop down from about 7.8.

You want around 6.0-6.5 for a soilless mix, or 6.3-6.8 for soil.
 
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adower

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LT1RX7 Drifter said:
There are 3 measurements that are important to know when you are caring for plants growing in a soil or soilless medium.
The first is the pH of your source water.
Next is the pH of your nutrient solution after the fertilizers and supplements are added.
Last is the pH of your soil. But that's the hard one! You can't just stick a pH meter in the dirt and get an accurate reading, and the cheap metal-probed meters that show this are usually not all that precise.

So how does one determine soil pH accurately? With a runoff test! First, measure the pH of your tap water and record it. As an example, let's say that it is 7.0, exactly neutral.

Now place the pot over a clean rinsed container and pour enough water through the soil to start dripping out the bottom. Collect about 4 ounces of runoff water. Check to see if it is discolored as well.

Now, if you only have liquid indicator, which is just fine, pour this water into a clean small tube or the test vial that came with your pH testing kit.Add a few drops of indicator solution, shake, and read the color change.
If you have a meter, simply stick the electrode in the water and read.

Let's say that your runoff comes out at 6.5. How did that happen? The water passed through a more acidic matrix and dropped its pH. You can assume that your true soil pH is a couple tenths of a pH point lower than the runoff in this case- I'd assume about a 6.2. If it comes out HIGHER, just go in the opposite direction. If it came out 7.5, you can assume that you need to drop down from about 7.8.

You want around 6.0-6.5 for a soilless mix, or 6.3-6.8 for soil.
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Of course he should check ph while flushing. However he didn't mention that. If he us just running water through the medium eight a prenuted soil he is just making it worse. In essence just feeding the plant when its already got excess n.
 
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