SeaWeed4202 said:

Just started a DWC hydrogrow for the first time and I'm concerned about it's growth so far. At first I noticed I was burning it a bit halfway through week 1 with nutes so I laid a bit off that went from 600-700ppm to 350-400ppm for the nutes into week 2. temps are mid 70s°, res water at 67°, 1000w light on veg only atm, also using fox farms and keeping up with ppm not ph(which I probably should). I'm wondering if I can improve on anything for it's health, thanks for the help!!!

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DrStadanko said:

Hi first of all P/H Is one of the most important things in DWC, KEEP NUTRIENTS 300- 400 FIRST WEEK P/H 6.0, 600-800 the second week, how high is your light from the plants, they should be 36-42 inches away
Good Luck
DrStadanko

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Cashmeh said:

You will prolly run into calmag issues ones you lower your feed. I would be at 300ppm with flora trio and calmag. I'd say it's way overfed, which slows growth and hurts plant. I feel you cannot underfeed in hydro. You either don't feed it, you feed it, or you over feed it. Your ppms should be dropping daily, not increasing at even the slightest. .. Always dropping.

A good ph meter you can calibrate with solution is what you need.

Not a bad start though for real.

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smokedareefer said:

Just finishing. PPM high for this round was about 580 gh 3 part View attachment 1175641

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Cashmeh said:

New growth is light green. If you were pushing it and it was growing stupid fast you would never see dark green.

I didn't read all your post at first.

So not taking ph into account, I'd say your initial issue was overfeeding at 600ppm. Then you lowered it, and things got better.. So then you raised it? Regardless as long as your ppms are dropping your good. So then since. It's feeding properly and you still have lots of dark green, try turning your lights up a bit or lowering it.

I guess I'm learning that fox farms gives a higher ppm than trio... I'll try to remember that. I'm at 500 ppm now and growing trees entering flower lol.. Anyways.. Turn them lights up just a bit.. You won't hurt it.

U can use Google play app and get the lux meter on your phone. I'd say 15k lux and ur good.

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SeaWeed4202 said:

Is this a male? I see a stick in-between the new growth that looks like leafs

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SeaWeed4202 said:

Thanks so much for that app recommendation it helped a lot!! Within 2-3 hrs it looked happier having 15k lux,I originally had it around 28k

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Growinginil said:

Hey she is coming along nicely. They don’t need a lot of light when starting off. They do want the blue spectrum big time!

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SeaWeed4202 said:

Would u recommend me holding off on full spectrum until a little further in or leave full spectrum for the remainder of the grow?

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Growinginil said:

What light do you have? Can you adjust the spectrum?

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