Nutrients - too much or too little? - Aquaponic Gardening2024-03-29T07:59:16Zhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/forum/topics/nutrients-too-much-or-too-little?commentId=4778851%3AComment%3A341982&feed=yes&xn_auth=noWe need to know more info to…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2012-05-27:4778851:Comment:3422532012-05-27T17:47:38.770ZTCLynxhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/TCLynx
<p>We need to know more info to help you sort this out better.</p>
<p>List all the water tests.</p>
<p>pH</p>
<p>Ammonia</p>
<p>Nitrite</p>
<p>Nitrate</p>
<p>Temperature</p>
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<p>When I see yellowing between the veins on new leaves, that usually means Iron deficiency in my systems. My pH is high which tends to cause Iron lock out so I dose with some chelated Iron to help deal with that problem.</p>
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<p>You note that you have older leaves yellowing and turning brown on the edges…</p>
<p>We need to know more info to help you sort this out better.</p>
<p>List all the water tests.</p>
<p>pH</p>
<p>Ammonia</p>
<p>Nitrite</p>
<p>Nitrate</p>
<p>Temperature</p>
<p></p>
<p>When I see yellowing between the veins on new leaves, that usually means Iron deficiency in my systems. My pH is high which tends to cause Iron lock out so I dose with some chelated Iron to help deal with that problem.</p>
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<p>You note that you have older leaves yellowing and turning brown on the edges and that the condition pre-dates putting them in the system. Ya know, I don't think you should weight that symptom too heavily because I don't know if that is likely to correct anything so trying to treat it might be counter productive. I often remove old leaves of my tomato plants anyway.</p>
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<p>It is hard to know if your fertilizer is appropriate to your problems since we don't know what's in it. High quality fish feeds are fairly easy to work with since many people for years have experience growing good plants with them by feeding their fish. However, asking a bunch of people doing aquaponics if you should use more fertilizer (of which you haven't told us what it contains really) based on a description of some possible problems without pictures or even all the water tests isn't going to get you very authoritative answers.</p>
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<p>I would probably say, add a bit of chelated iron and fish to start feeding and see if that helps with the new leaves Barring that, then perhaps join Vlad's <a href="http://aquaponicscommunity.com/group/fish-less-systems" target="_self">Fishless group</a> and see if he can help you with the fishless bio-ponic balancing.</p> You left out your most critic…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2012-05-27:4778851:Comment:3419822012-05-27T17:42:02.556ZRupertofOZhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/RupertofOZ
<p>You left out your most critical test... pH</p>
<p>Almost all deficiencies... are pH related...</p>
<p>You left out your most critical test... pH</p>
<p>Almost all deficiencies... are pH related...</p>