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Smellypants
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Hi everyone
This is my first post so go easy on me
So Ive just got back into growing again and running into some major issues.
First run I did soil which went completely tits up and fried the life out of my girls because I followed H & G feeding guide.
I was using the bio 1 part and attempted to follow their ec guide, little did I know you can’t ec organic (why do house and garden even bother putting this on their schedule)!
So I pretty much lost those
Second run I decided to use coco (current run)
Canna professional coco
In root nurse fabric pots
House and garden coco a+b
Mulizyme, roots exc, Dutch master silica, canna cal mag
Environment is a sealed room running co2 with ac 1200ppm
Temps are 26c hum 65
Gorilla 8x8 tent
4 630w lumatek cmh is sunmaster de/ac (copied) reflectors
Tap water runs through a carbon block and a 5 micron sediment filter. Comes out at .2ec
So I have some in flower right now which are once again fried.
Another room I have some in veg which are showing signs of deficiencies.
The girls in flower were at 1.8ec and started showing signs of what I thought were a potassium deficiency.
I was adding 0.5ml/L of cal mag to bump my base water up to 0.4ec then adding 1.3ml/l of coco a and b to get my 1.6ish, then additives took it to 1.8.
So I searched everywhere for answers, looking at all the pictures and reading all the forums, websites etc.
Asked all h + g wholesalers why they say to use 4ml/l at this stage with no one able to answer it.
I mixed what they recommended in a separate bucket to find it takes my ec to 3.4.
So a couple companies told me to flush with 1.0ec until my runoff is the same (run to waste btw)
Took some photos to my local shop and he was adamant they were underfed and cannabilising themselves “bump it up to 2.4 ASAP”.
So I did, and a few days later they were completely fried once again 4 weeks into flower.
So I immediately started flushing with plain ph water to get it down to 0.8ec (which took forever and a lot of water)
Removed all the fried leaves and stuck with daily feedings of 0.8ec.
2 weeks later and the leaves are still turning brown from the tips, slowly consuming the full leaf.
My other girls in veg (about 3 weeks old) are showing similar issues (nowhere near as bad) top leaves look like a mag defeciency (sprayed Epsom on them 1ml/l) still no change.
They are getting an ec of 1.0
I’d love to stay in coco but I just can’t seem to get them healthy.
I ph everything at 5.8, I mix everything and dilute as much as possible, my environment is perfect, I feed daily, I was running a good 20-30% runoff, ec and ph coming out was bang on but this was wasting a lot of water and nutrients.
What the hell am I doing wrong????
It must be something I’m doing with the feed.
I took a clone of a flowering plant and put into a root riot plug, gave it similar water once it was rooted but lower ec and that had a lot of yellowing and strange problems.
So I thought I’d stick that into soil fabric point since it was a mother anyway...24 hours later it’s lovely and green
If I don’t sort this issue in the next week or 2 then I’m going to transplant them into soil and ditch the coco
This is my first post so go easy on me
So Ive just got back into growing again and running into some major issues.
First run I did soil which went completely tits up and fried the life out of my girls because I followed H & G feeding guide.
I was using the bio 1 part and attempted to follow their ec guide, little did I know you can’t ec organic (why do house and garden even bother putting this on their schedule)!
So I pretty much lost those
Second run I decided to use coco (current run)
Canna professional coco
In root nurse fabric pots
House and garden coco a+b
Mulizyme, roots exc, Dutch master silica, canna cal mag
Environment is a sealed room running co2 with ac 1200ppm
Temps are 26c hum 65
Gorilla 8x8 tent
4 630w lumatek cmh is sunmaster de/ac (copied) reflectors
Tap water runs through a carbon block and a 5 micron sediment filter. Comes out at .2ec
So I have some in flower right now which are once again fried.
Another room I have some in veg which are showing signs of deficiencies.
The girls in flower were at 1.8ec and started showing signs of what I thought were a potassium deficiency.
I was adding 0.5ml/L of cal mag to bump my base water up to 0.4ec then adding 1.3ml/l of coco a and b to get my 1.6ish, then additives took it to 1.8.
So I searched everywhere for answers, looking at all the pictures and reading all the forums, websites etc.
Asked all h + g wholesalers why they say to use 4ml/l at this stage with no one able to answer it.
I mixed what they recommended in a separate bucket to find it takes my ec to 3.4.
So a couple companies told me to flush with 1.0ec until my runoff is the same (run to waste btw)
Took some photos to my local shop and he was adamant they were underfed and cannabilising themselves “bump it up to 2.4 ASAP”.
So I did, and a few days later they were completely fried once again 4 weeks into flower.
So I immediately started flushing with plain ph water to get it down to 0.8ec (which took forever and a lot of water)
Removed all the fried leaves and stuck with daily feedings of 0.8ec.
2 weeks later and the leaves are still turning brown from the tips, slowly consuming the full leaf.
My other girls in veg (about 3 weeks old) are showing similar issues (nowhere near as bad) top leaves look like a mag defeciency (sprayed Epsom on them 1ml/l) still no change.
They are getting an ec of 1.0
I’d love to stay in coco but I just can’t seem to get them healthy.
I ph everything at 5.8, I mix everything and dilute as much as possible, my environment is perfect, I feed daily, I was running a good 20-30% runoff, ec and ph coming out was bang on but this was wasting a lot of water and nutrients.
What the hell am I doing wrong????
It must be something I’m doing with the feed.
I took a clone of a flowering plant and put into a root riot plug, gave it similar water once it was rooted but lower ec and that had a lot of yellowing and strange problems.
So I thought I’d stick that into soil fabric point since it was a mother anyway...24 hours later it’s lovely and green
If I don’t sort this issue in the next week or 2 then I’m going to transplant them into soil and ditch the coco