Rick
Well-Known Member
You may actually see some effects (like changes in leaf color) in just a week or so. Plants with healthy root systems (especially mounted plants) may really jumpstart after just a few feedings ( a month??). As mentioned you may be purging K from older potting mixes and not see much of anything for a few months. Ultimately we need to be watching for true deficiencies that may take at least 1 full year if not a few years. Do big adult plants quit blooming and just keep adding growths?? Seed pods crapping out??
The majority of problems I feel I identified from the high K system are more manifest over multiple years rather than short term acute toxicity problems of less than a few months. So this is really a long haul program.
Getting back to records, try to keep this fun, because of this gets tedious, then records go down the tubes. Over detailed records can be just as unhelpful as incomplete. I think some of our best options are going to be before and after pictures. So pick a few of your worst plants and photograph them now (with some scale if handy).
Yes perfect experiments would control just a single or few variables. But since we are comparing to a very uncontrolled population already, Lance is looking at this about the same as I see it.
Everybody uses fertilizers in unique ways already. So rather than trying to understand this down to the elemental level, we are black boxing everything else we do, and just reduce the K to see what happens for gross effects.
