If you want to correct your grow media you could buy some 5 gallon cloth pots and extra media and transplant into them. As has been mentioned, the cloth pots will help oxygenate the soil and help in overwatering.
Id scoop em out carfully and fill. Over watering is going to be a big problem with that soil so really really try not to water to often.
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This is a good option. I dont like transplanting unhealthy and stressed plants but in this case im with you and its with the risk. To add try to gently temove the soil around the roots because you really dont want to have a root ball in one type of media that has to grow into a different media or that can create a whole host of other challenges
YESSSSS!!! Before you transplant prepare all the pots you are going to be transplanting into but even before that pre-preparation says you need to let them dry back some so that it's easier to slide the media out of the pot. Once you have the media out of the pot CAREFULLY brush away the dirt the roots are in. You can use a bucket of water to dip the roots into to remove the remaining media.
Also raise humidity to 75% and reduce lights to absolutely min for 2-3 days. That will reduce any transplant shock to almost nothing by reducing the transpiration demand on the roots until they get settled in and established
Again YESSSSS!!!
Hey Aqua man...don't you mean 20,000 lux as max...not 2,000? I use an digital lux meter and I get about 25,000 across the top of my plants under t5 they can grow into the light and get 30,000 at 1" away. Do those numbers not correlate with led?Never fill buckets part ways it will likely give an undesirable water table. Read here for understanding.
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your humidity is an issue if anything it should be higher during the day and lower at night. you want about 65% light on. Read here for understanding of importance.
VPD (vapor pressure deficit)
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your light is a blurple use both red and blue switches on and adjust to the desired intensity. You have WAAAAY TO MUCH LIGHT. Lux measures mostly green spectrum and cannot be used as a crossover for full soectrum LED with white. I CANT STRESS THIS ENOUGH. Your ppfd should be around 150 on those plants right now At 8000 lux under just blue you are at 950ppfd thats as much as a full grow plant can handle in flower under 12/12 and is you LARGEST issue right now.
turn both switches on red and blue and do the following
use this link and select red + blue LED as the source. You will see you want no more than 2000 lux for this stage
Convert Lux to PPFD - Online Calculator | Waveform Lighting
Online calculator to convert illuminance (lux) to PPFD (micromoles per second per meter squared).www.waveformlighting.com
Nope your right in your observation of yours though. Red + blue + white gives a completely different par reading after conversion from lux to par than a red + blue only spectrum. This is because the white is high in the green spectrum and the way lux measurements are taken is mostly from the green spectrum and then a conversion factor is used to calculate par or ppfd.
Too many numbers for me to remember so I use it as A guide along with the dimmer to keep track of what this tool gives me. Trying to do the ppfd and umol/s/m2 is just too much to ask this old guy so lux gives me a dam good ball park.....it might not be good in the majors but it gives me something to go by. .......Look I'm buying the tools and and trying to use them but gee's man none of the pie are square stuff...that's what the tools are for...
How do you determine whether your fixture is a high CRI 6500 vs 4000?
Under the rating… most list the cri and color temp in K (kelvin) which is expressed with a number before the K. 3000K being more red leaning and 5000k more blue leaning
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If it says "5000k White" is that the rating?Under the rating… most list the cri and color temp in K (kelvin) which is expressed with a number before the K. 3000K being more red leaning and 5000k more blue leaning
some info on cri
CRI - Color Rendering Index