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Phosphorus or calcium

The only bugs I had was the fungus gnats S with closer inspection they were all breeding in my father's plant. I have it mosquito bits and they're all dying back. Aside from that no bug issues

It def calcium. And magnesium because of all the pale brown spots. I legit didn't put cal mag into one watering and from then it was all down hill. Before that I was alternating one watering got full dose Cal mag(5ml per gallon) and in-between that I would give it a watering with half dose Cal mag. I did it because the leaves were like people with nitrogen. I've since gotten the TPS OAC Cal Mag which doesn't have any nitrogen. Just giving it full doses (2ml per gallon) according to instructions. I guess it's a higher concentration than the GH calimagic since you need less per gallon.

It's the same thing whether I'm growing in coco or growing in soil. 2 weeks into bloom this is how they always look. I've changed EVERYTHING except the nature's living soil nutrition ..... So I bought Gaia Green...... Even though they both basically use the same ingredients, maybe this will work better for me. I'm really beginning to suspect it's the NLS. It's like click work 3 weeks into bloom I get red stems and from then on just leaves dying slow growth small buds and then just larf. I'm just tired of the same problem EVERY SINGLE GROW.
 
Just to be even more annoyed. ALL the seeds I planted from FastBuds all 6 of them. Garbage. They're a month old and 6 inches tall with red stems stunted growth.... Complete failure....I never had issues with germination and veg.... What was different this time? Kelp meal. I never added kelp meal in the past this was my first time using it. Every plant I put it into did very poorly. The ones I didn't add it to were fine. Coincidence?

Then work my father's plant..... He's growing it in a gallon of soil and it's all fine. Not a single red stem. But mine got red stems and red stalk and everything. i don't get it.....I just don't get it. The guy that don't know what he's doing is doing better at something that I've spent hundred of hours watching videos and reading books and failing for 3 years(if I don't count the one blue dream from 2 years ago and the bubble gum, amnesia haze and Bruce banner those were actually successful). But in between those 5 plants there's been 20 of 30 that all failed for literally exactly the same reason.

I follow exactly down to the period what this person or that person is doing and can NEVER replicate it. I don't understand how ppl use Fox Farm soil and don't get acidity issues. My soil goes to like 4.0ph. While everyone else like " oh Fox farm the best" and they get these great results.
Tried Coco and still same problem different medium. Still red stems everywhere and spotted dying. It's gotta be the nutrition line. For once I know for a fact it's not the pH. Going in and comes out the same or off by only 0.1. Not like with the Fox farm where I put in 8.0 water and get 4.8 runoff.

I just don't understand how each and every one of the FastBuds is doing so poorly. It's gotta be the kelp meal
 

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I use nature's living soil autoflower version. Then during bloom I would use their Flower Power bud booster. They also sent me their microbes pack called Soul revival. 6.2-6.5 pH water with runoff being the same. As far as CO2 goes...I can't help that.... Unless I stop breathing. I don't buy CO2 I just get those numbers from breathing in that small room. But yeah I know about the Law of minimum. She just went from looking amazing to this in 2 weeks time...
 
I have good castings, I have cal mag without nitrogen and I got the Gaia green to go with it. The rest of the NLS I have, I guess I can use for teas and microbes. But first I want to give the Gaia green a chance and see what happens.
 

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Ohh I see. I don't know why I thought it was coco. Well... that's the complicated thing about soil, you never know exactly what's in there and it's hard to do anything about it once the plant is in the soil. To me it kinda looks underfed but it could be any kind of issue preventing nutrients from being absorbed. I can't give you advice there. I don't know how to fix it. That's why I gave up soil, apart from the fact that they grow twice as fast in coco the control aspect is huge. And about the CO2, as long as your not wasting money is all good, just be sure to have a fan or something to create air movement just so the CO2 doesn't build up in the floor preventing oxygen from reaching the roots.
 
Ckbrew - In one of the pix the leaves are dark green with darker green areas. N tox? The others, with crispy spots, look like mag def especially with his media. Because I'm seeing 2 different issues I'm thinking more lockout than singular ion feed deficiency. High calcium ratios will lock out almost everything according to Mulders chart and with the multiple issues I'm seeing I'm thinking the opposite. Wadda u think?
 
Going back over the post I see you are keeping pH at 6.5. I use the range 6.5 - 5.5, and try to target 5.8 - 6. Your pH may be a bit high. Now I see the dark green leaves on one bud suggesting N tox. There may be multiple issues happening here. I'm not familiar with your nute brand, I use GH with calmag and pH adjust only.
 
I've never had an issue with germination until I started sprinkling in kelp meal to my starter soil. That's when germination issues started.... Before then I just pop them in the soil after soaking in water for 12 hours and nearly 100% success. Still haven't lost any seedlings I grew but they just seemed to be instantly stunted. Normally when I take the two cups apart you could see big fat giant roots but the roots on these look like thin filaments of hair. They did not look healthy. So I'm just not gonna use any kelp meal. IDK what all the hype is about it. Doesn't seem to do anything positive. When I do just soil and castings they take off like a rocket...add kelp and I got 6 plants a month old barely 6inches tall but the freebies seed turned into a monster and that one didn't have any kelp meal
 
It is Coco based soil yes. I followed the recommendation and grow guide in their website..... You know I figured use the guide made for the nutrients I'm using not a guide made for something else. The"soil" is Coco, perlite and castings. Then 3.2oz per gallon of the autoflower mix and that's the base soil for all of veg.
 
It was went wrong when I watered with plain water and the calcium issues started right away. Because the Coco that's supposed to be buffered obviously isn't. But the leaves are so dark green it was hard to tell what the problem was until it was more advanced
 
I was doing 6.2 during veg with explosive results but as it started to flower it stopped being so explosive and all the problems started
 
That's why I got the cal mag without nitrogen because the feet l compost I'm using is already super hot I don't need the extra nitrogen from the cal mag. That's what was messing me up. And to back off the only nitrogen I could back off of was the cal mag ...... That's when it all went south. I saw the nitrogen was too much I didn't want it to be a problem in flower so I ended up with a calcium and magnesium problem..... If it's not one thing it's another thing
 
Seems like I traded nitrogen toxicity for a call mag deficiency this is exactly why I avoided growing in coco for so long but I was so fed up with the moss based stuff and always being away like 5.0 pH now my pH is nice and stable for once so I get everything else

The plan is to double buffer the shit canna coco that's supposed to be buffered already..... Make sure that's all good and build whole new soil with the build a soil castings and use the cal mag without the nitrogen going forward.

I can't do nothing about the damage done. It's not repairable. But all the fast buds seeds I planted are all going in the trash. They're just here now so I can figure shit out until I need the space

What other option do I have. Go back to moss based soil and just be tortured by low pH issues constantly? I had 3 years of that. That's why I hope the Coco can work. I saw how explosive the growth can be when it's going right.
 
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You can check the main page where I was documenting the growth. https://forum.growweedeasy.com/forum/growing-community/602627-plenty-of-firsts

It was going too well. And I mentioned it a few times in the posts that's it's going suspiciously smoothly. And I was right. And exactly the problem I hoped to avoid... And it's avoidable just need to do extra work. Got the right nutrients that I need to work with the nutrient lines in trying to use. It should go better this time. Also not growing autos. Going back to photos. All my best grows were photos. All my problem children were autos.
 
Try not to complicate your nutrients. I use A & B base with Hormex, CaliMagic, Armor Si. This is the first time I've used Armor Si. I've used ProTekt for the most part. I don't use bloom boosters or molasses or any of that stuff. Tried them all and didn't see much improvement in terms of flower quality or size.

As long as you feed them the right ions at the right time you shouldn't need boosters. The graph I posted previously works great!
 
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