PhatNuggz
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PhatNuggz,
I have a couple of questions for you:
1. I noticed throughout your thread the plants from seedling to fully mature have some twisted and burnt looking leaves. Is this something about the strain you are using? Could be un-diagnosed root issues or too high a ppm as well.
2. Roots often look brown and you mentioned the color of the nutes but if the nutes dye the roots that dark how do you tell if your getting some amount of root rot? In earlier pictures I saw some roots that were very dark compared to adjacent roots and that looked suspicious to me. Also, the leaf twisting and drying out/dying thing looks like what I have seen in my hydro grow when the roots were just starting to rot or had a partial outbreak (not enough to kill em outright but surely stunts their performance). I struggled like hell to keep my water temps under 69F but finally succumbed to buying a chiller ($$ouch).
3. Generally speaking how does your water smell and what are the res temperatures (min and max)?
I stopped using general hydro cause of the freakin dyes and switched to clear nutes eventually will go to a commercial agricultural formula like Jack's. I am sick of the commercial cannabis nutes that are simply overpriced hyped up products.
Just curious not trying to criticize here......
Dee
Welcome Dee
If you dug back far enough into this thread you would know that for the last 2 grows I was experimenting with NPK RAW nutrients, though not developed for hydro, I was trying to make them work. Perhaps the biggest issues were caused by me supplementing their veg or bloom with fulvic acid and microbes. without those, it may work, but somethig wreaked havoc with my roots. Honestly, it's a testimony to cannabis' amazing ability to survive. The 2 plants are drying now. Smaples are good, but volume understandablly small. The plant I finished outdoors in soil, was super healthy with the NPK RAW nutes
And I have a couple grows worth of Emerald Harvest nutes (developed for hydro) to use up. They're what Im using this grow
However, this grow I am experimenting with growing with lpa, with a twist. LPA roots typically look like soggy spaghetti, no doubt due to 24/7 watering: roots benefit from some dry time to process the food. Without it, the cells swell up and shut down. So, I am using a deep cycle timer: still dialing in o/o times, now at ~ 3 minutes on/30 minutes off
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