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05-07-2017, 03:06 PM | #21 (permalink) |
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Re: Some p-stems stop growing?
The only time I use it is in an indoor closed rez feeding plants, added either when they start to smell or when I go somewhere for a week in hydro for tomatoes. It works well for that.
Of course for sanitizing purposes you would use a higher concentration for a quick wash on something as strong as a banana corm. |
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2 drops per gal => 26 ppm x .0825 (8.25% bleach)= 2.145 ppm of chlorine EPA emergency chlorination of drinking water: 6 drops per gal => 79 ppm X .0825 = 6.5 ppm of chlorine to 12 drops per gal => 158 ppm X .0825 = 13.0 ppm of chlorine As a note, due to mineral & organic content of well water, it usually takes 10 ppm (+/-) of chlorine (chlorine load) to neutralize this content before 'free chlorine' can result. Drinking water chlorine content is low compared to water/chlorine solutions for general disinfection & cleaning starting at about 200 ppm. |
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Re: Some p-stems stop growing?
As for the stems not growing, every time I use a product with Potassium sulfate in it, my plants stop growing altogether for a few days to a few weeks. I used organic tomato fertilizer a while back and everything stopped on all my plants except the big mat of Brazilians, but after a few weeks all are doing ok now. Smaller plants seem much more susceptible to this.
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There might be a slight bulge where the stem is stuck, it is there you cut. The bulge by Hostafarian, on Flickr I just did this one yesterday. The choke by Hostafarian, on Flickr The alien lifeform by Hostafarian, on Flickr Last edited by cincinnana : 05-20-2017 at 09:06 AM. |
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Do you use Hostafarian as your name on other forums? I've seen that name before lol
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I think with this one, the original stem was the one that died back. But it's got several full-sized and mid-sized pups already, so no problem in the long-term. Just wanted to save as many stems as I could.
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I had to lop a couple more in half yesterday because they showed signs of being stuck......and they were. All the spring rain and cool weather is not good for plants that are not growing. Last edited by cincinnana : 05-28-2017 at 06:37 AM. |
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I didn't find any leaves that were stuck like yours were. I was able to cut back to part of the stem that was not rotten, but not sure if it will do anything but become rotten soon.
The other stem that is not really growing has a center leaf that just isn't opening up. One side of the leaf must have burned off, but the other half of the leaf is still curled up in the middle. It's been like that for weeks. I've tried to cut back around the center leaf and manually unroll some of it, so photosynthesis can keep it moving, but no luck so far. Most of my other stems are throwing out huge leaves like crazy right now. Last edited by SonnyCrockett : 05-30-2017 at 11:09 AM. |
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