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Hydro Growers1. Are you growing from seed or clones? Clones
2. How old are your plants? Veggers are 2 weeks in big pots, Flowers are 30 days into 12/12.
3. How tall are your plants? Veggers are ~ 12", Flowers range from 36" to 60+"
4. What type of hydro system are you using? Some crazy shit. Modified MPB/Hempy. Top drip DTW w/ a hydro section underneath chow pots.
5. What brand/type of nutrients are you using? Homemade salt mix. The good shit.
6. What is the Ph of your nutrient solution? Going in, 5.8.
7. What is the PPM/EC of your tap water? 30
8. What is the PPM/EC of your nutrient solution? Veg = 1.6 EC, Flower = 1.3 EC
9. What is the temperature of your nutrient solution? Res temps are higher than I'd like. ~80, after a few days. Hydro section of each plant site is about 74.
10. Does your PPM/EC show a rise or fall when you do your daily PPM check? In res, PPM holds steady. In Hydro section, EC tends to rise.
11. Does your pH show a rise or fall when you do your daily check? Res pH doesn't fluctuate. Hydro section pH drops VERY low within a couple days of being changed. (I've seen it get as low as 3.5. The best plants hold around 5.0.)
12. Do you foliar feed or spray your plants with anything? Occasionally. I feed Epsom when I feel like they're hungry for Mg, and I have some other foliars in my bag, like chelated iron/micros, and Calcium Carbonate, but I don't use them regularly. I also sometimes foliar feed Cap's bennies. (OG BioWar)
13. What kind of lights do you use and how many watts combined? 4 x 600 watt dual arc, bare vert
14. How close are your lights to the plants? 18"
15. What size is your grow space in square feet? 10' x 10'
16. What is the temperature and humidity in your grow space? Fuckin' dialed.
17. Have you noticed any insect activity in your grow space? Negative, Ghost Rider.
18. How much experience do you have growing? Enough to be dangerous.
1. This WiFi looks like it's experiencing some stress from being a bit too salty. It got a little too big for its britches with the little pot it's in. I stuck it in the flower room as a tester and it grew to almost 5'.
2. The bottom of that WiFi. It's looking like P- kinda, but runoff EC on this plant has been as high as 1200, so I think it's N+ and stress from being in such a tiny pot.
3. This is what's going on with those lower leaves. The whole plant seems to be finishing a little faster than it should be. I'm not expecting much...
4. A WiFi top, wanting to claw up. You can just see the pistils starting to change a little too soon.
5. This is some kind of peach-smelling strain I got from a friend. This side of the plant is facing the AC, and the pH in the hydro tank wants to get down into the mid to low 3's, no matter what I do. You can see a lot of stress and burn and not a whole lot of bud for being 30 days in...
6.This is a lower leaf from that same plant as #5. Really harsh down there!
7. Now THIS is the opposite side of the same plant, the side facing away from the AC. Quite a big difference, eh?
8. This is a 6' WiFi that is, all things considered, handling herself quite well. See if you can spot the problem...
9. Oh well, I saved you the trouble. This has been happening since about week 5 of veg. It feels like N+ to me and I'm hoping I can get the plant to eat it all when time comes to fade it out, but what else could it be? (low ph? high ec?)
10. Same WiFi, different angle.
11. Here's a plant I'm having some issues with in veg. This one has me stumped. I've hit them with N (see the burn?), Mg (seemed to help the first time, but not the 2nd), Fe (no effect), and K (no effect).
12. And the sister...
I'm sure that that vast majority of this stuff is pH related, but...let's hear what the rest of y'all think!
2. How old are your plants? Veggers are 2 weeks in big pots, Flowers are 30 days into 12/12.
3. How tall are your plants? Veggers are ~ 12", Flowers range from 36" to 60+"
4. What type of hydro system are you using? Some crazy shit. Modified MPB/Hempy. Top drip DTW w/ a hydro section underneath chow pots.
5. What brand/type of nutrients are you using? Homemade salt mix. The good shit.
6. What is the Ph of your nutrient solution? Going in, 5.8.
7. What is the PPM/EC of your tap water? 30
8. What is the PPM/EC of your nutrient solution? Veg = 1.6 EC, Flower = 1.3 EC
9. What is the temperature of your nutrient solution? Res temps are higher than I'd like. ~80, after a few days. Hydro section of each plant site is about 74.
10. Does your PPM/EC show a rise or fall when you do your daily PPM check? In res, PPM holds steady. In Hydro section, EC tends to rise.
11. Does your pH show a rise or fall when you do your daily check? Res pH doesn't fluctuate. Hydro section pH drops VERY low within a couple days of being changed. (I've seen it get as low as 3.5. The best plants hold around 5.0.)
12. Do you foliar feed or spray your plants with anything? Occasionally. I feed Epsom when I feel like they're hungry for Mg, and I have some other foliars in my bag, like chelated iron/micros, and Calcium Carbonate, but I don't use them regularly. I also sometimes foliar feed Cap's bennies. (OG BioWar)
13. What kind of lights do you use and how many watts combined? 4 x 600 watt dual arc, bare vert
14. How close are your lights to the plants? 18"
15. What size is your grow space in square feet? 10' x 10'
16. What is the temperature and humidity in your grow space? Fuckin' dialed.
17. Have you noticed any insect activity in your grow space? Negative, Ghost Rider.
18. How much experience do you have growing? Enough to be dangerous.
1. This WiFi looks like it's experiencing some stress from being a bit too salty. It got a little too big for its britches with the little pot it's in. I stuck it in the flower room as a tester and it grew to almost 5'.
2. The bottom of that WiFi. It's looking like P- kinda, but runoff EC on this plant has been as high as 1200, so I think it's N+ and stress from being in such a tiny pot.
3. This is what's going on with those lower leaves. The whole plant seems to be finishing a little faster than it should be. I'm not expecting much...
4. A WiFi top, wanting to claw up. You can just see the pistils starting to change a little too soon.
5. This is some kind of peach-smelling strain I got from a friend. This side of the plant is facing the AC, and the pH in the hydro tank wants to get down into the mid to low 3's, no matter what I do. You can see a lot of stress and burn and not a whole lot of bud for being 30 days in...
6.This is a lower leaf from that same plant as #5. Really harsh down there!
7. Now THIS is the opposite side of the same plant, the side facing away from the AC. Quite a big difference, eh?
8. This is a 6' WiFi that is, all things considered, handling herself quite well. See if you can spot the problem...
9. Oh well, I saved you the trouble. This has been happening since about week 5 of veg. It feels like N+ to me and I'm hoping I can get the plant to eat it all when time comes to fade it out, but what else could it be? (low ph? high ec?)
10. Same WiFi, different angle.
11. Here's a plant I'm having some issues with in veg. This one has me stumped. I've hit them with N (see the burn?), Mg (seemed to help the first time, but not the 2nd), Fe (no effect), and K (no effect).
12. And the sister...
I'm sure that that vast majority of this stuff is pH related, but...let's hear what the rest of y'all think!