No run off with organics?

Nutty sKunK

Nutty sKunK

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Does anyone run a cycle without runoff using liquid organic feed?

Dealing with run off is one of my least favourite parts of growing and I’m curious if it can be avoided.

so far this grow I have let them suck up any run off and not seen any issues (yet?) they are 38 days old autos. If anything I underfed them a little at times during stretch but just upped the feed.

I had a thought. Let’s say the bag is E.C 1.2, the plant grows and removes nutrients from the soil to grow. So if I match exactly what the plant needs at the right time the soil never becomes depleted/toxic? Thats my theory at least.

Im just wondering if salt build up will occur from sodium content or any other factors to consider? My water is 38ppm so very soft.

Im gonna see how long I can do this for out of curiosity.


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Beeswings

Beeswings

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I never water to run off, sure I'll water too fast sometimes and a little comes out the sides or whatever but never more than a couple fluid ounces of water. That's with Fox Farm nutes in Fox Farm soil, I'm sure different fertilizers and soils will handle salts differently but I can keep photos happy way longer than you could ever grow an auto so I think you should be good to go with the short life of an auto.
 
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conor c

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Nutty sKunK said:
Does anyone run a cycle without runoff using liquid organic feed?

Dealing with run off is one of my least favourite parts of growing and I’m curious if it can be avoided.

so far this grow I have let them suck up any run off and not seen any issues (yet?) they are 38 days old autos. If anything I underfed them a little at times during stretch but just upped the feed.

I had a thought. Let’s say the bag is E.C 1.2, the plant grows and removes nutrients from the soil to grow. So if I match exactly what the plant needs at the right time the soil never becomes depleted/toxic? Thats my theory at least.

Im just wondering if salt build up will occur from sodium content or any other factors to consider? My water is 38ppm so very soft.

Im gonna see how long I can do this for out of curiosity.


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I wouldnt trust it bio bizz say to but i always water till run off and not had problems mind you i use all mix minus top layer of seedling compost maybe if ya use light mix you would get away with it
 
Nutty sKunK

Nutty sKunK

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conor c said:
I wouldnt trust it bio bizz say to but i always water till run off and not had problems mind you i use all mix minus top layer of seedling compost maybe if ya use light mix you would get away with it
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Good to know beeswings, curious if others have had success and yea my autos typically run 11-13 weeks full cycle.

Using plant magic Conor, similar to biobizz that it’s sugar beet based I believe. Using at a much lower dosage than recommended.

Also in biobizz lightmix with some worm castings that’s it, so not much in the way of nutrients to begin with
 
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conor c

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Nutty sKunK said:
Good to know beeswings, curious if others have had success and yea my autos typically run 11-13 weeks full cycle.

Using plant magic Conor, similar to biobizz that it’s sugar beet based I believe. Using at a much lower dosage than recommended.

Also in biobizz lightmix with some worm castings that’s it, so not much in the way of nutrients to begin with
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Its higher in n even the bloom vs bio bizz from memory but it is good stuff i know a few who use it but because of that bio bizz is better for sensitive stuff ie pure sats and landrace
 
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Nutty sKunK

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conor c said:
Its higher in n even the bloom vs bio bizz from memory but it is good stuff i know a few who use it but because of that bio bizz is better for sensitive stuff ie pure sats and landrace
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Aye it’s a 5-3-3 grow and 3-5-4 bloom. What I do is mix them 50/50 until mid flower which makes a nice 8-8-7 ratio. Then can just drop the grow as they mature and replace with old timer PK which is a 2-4-8 to find a rough 1-1-2 ratio.


Makes sense for N sensitive strains tho to use biobizz!
 
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conor c

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Nutty sKunK said:
Aye it’s a 5-3-3 grow and 3-5-4 bloom. What I do is mix them 50/50 until mid flower which makes a nice 8-8-7 ratio. Then can just drop the grow as they mature and replace with old timer PK which is a 2-4-8 to find a rough 1-1-2 ratio.


Makes sense for N sensitive strains tho to use biobizz!
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Aye so like bio bizz u blend the two i see well that i can deal with i might try it somepoint for the more hungry stuff i run occasionally like the doctor or critical mass those two plants can take a crazy amount of feed especially the doc it eats N like theres no tomorrow ime
 
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