"Houston, we have a problem!" Discoloration, curling and drooping

[Jazzmyn]

The medium is FF ocean forest. No nutes yet as she is 2 weeks and 5 days old since sprout. I was using boiled/3 stage filtered city water but I switched back to distilled and she perked up again. I water until a little bit of runoff and I pour somewhat slow and intervals until runoff. Humidity is 50-65% and temp is 76-80 degrees. She is getting 18/6 light. I am thinking maybe I should start using Sensi grow A and B with B-52/voodoo juice supplements. Can anyone help this is my first grow and sorry if I'm annoying.

 

[Dirtbag]

I dont think it needs nutrients yet, but using pure distilled water is a no-no. Either cut it with tap water or just use tap. Straight RO or distilled has no alkalinity buffer, no micronutrients, no calcium or magnesium... nothing. And it will actually put stress on the media and roots by drawing out minerals through osmotic pressure.

Do you have ppm and ph meters?

 

[Jazzmyn]

I dont think it needs nutrients yet, but using pure distilled water is a no-no. Either cut it with tap water or just use tap. Straight RO or distilled has no alkalinity buffer, no micronutrients, no calcium or magnesium... nothing. And it will actually put stress on the media and roots by drawing out minerals through osmotic pressure.

Do you have ppm and ph meters?

The city water here has lead and lots of chemicals. Um, I will be buying a new PH meter that can measure PPM because I bought a cheap pH meter that doesn't work. Should I start boiling the city tap water or is there a particular brand of bottled water that would work well? And, I have read people say that they let there tap water sit for a few hours before feeding to plants. This is a learning process for me, thanks for your patience.

 

[Madmax]

Agree with Dirtbag...that plant is lush..

 

[Dirtbag]

The city water here has lead and lots of chemicals. Um, I will be buying a new PH meter that can measure PPM because I bought a cheap pH meter that doesn't work. Should I start boiling the city tap water or is there a particular brand of bottled water that would work well? And, I have read people say that they let there tap water sit for a few hours before feeding to plants. This is a learning process for me, thanks for your patience.

Do you have a link to your local water report? Easy to find online usually. If you can find it share it and I'll have a look.

If you cant use the tap you can get away with adding some calcium carbonate for alkalinity along with some calmag, or some brands of calmag actually use calcium carbonate, that would be the better of the calmag options.

 

[Jazzmyn]

Do you have a link to your local water report? Easy to find online usually. If you can find it share it and I'll have a look.

If you cant use the tap you can get away with adding some calcium carbonate for alkalinity along with some calmag, or some brands of calmag actually use calcium carbonate, that would be the better of the calmag options.

this house had a personal report and it reported high lead levels.

 

[Dirtbag]

Dude, that water is good but for the lead. It's a bit high ec but you could cut it down with RO pr distilled. It's high in copper too suggesting it's coming from the solder in your homes plumbing.

All you really need is a quality activated charcoal filter inline on one of your water lines to remove the heavy metals, and fill your res from that tap. Should only cost about $60 and would be relatively easy to install

 

[Jazzmyn]

Dude, that water is good but for the lead. It's a bit high ec but you could cut it down with RO pr distilled. It's high in copper too suggesting it's coming from the solder in your homes plumbing.

All you really need is a quality activated charcoal filter inline on one of your water lines to remove the heavy metals, and fill your res from that tap. Should only cost about $60 and would be relatively easy to install

yeah i dont know where my home report but believe it or not that's the city's report on their water lines. lol

 

[Dirtbag]

Lol, well either way, a charcoal filter should sort you out.

 

[Jazzmyn]

Lol, well either way, a charcoal filter should sort you out.

ok the pH in soil is around 6.8-6.9 pH and the runoff is reading 5.4 pH. I'm feeding water at a pH of 6.5.

 

[Frego]

How was the plant?