Well Shit

[CriticalWorm]

Long story short I'm finally back home. Been gone for 6 weeks. 5 mother plants were beautiful when I left. Caretaker didn't take to much care I guess. (My friend) and I know he don't mean know harm. What I gather he broke my ph meter as soon as I left and hasn't been cheaking ph and not flushing right. I'm thinking ph is high and nutes are locked out from salt build up as well. He says they haven't grown in weeks. I just took the worst of the damaged leaves off them but they are still far from pretty. Thinking I'll flush the hell out of them with water ph around 5.5. Hoping to bring the ph downs bit. Gonna be using a Shity drip test tube ph kit. Hoping it works well enough. Think I'm on the right track?

 

[SpiderK]

fresh air in that " room " ?

how many fans ?

temps, humidity ? at all times ?

 

[GrowGod]

So how long did you leave your plants for him to take care of? I would never leave longer then say a week so I could mix the nutes get everything ph'ed etc.
Not everyone is up for being a grower;)

 

[CriticalWorm]

600watt hps on 75% running 24 hrs a day with 2 fans running at all times. Temp stays around 75. Not sure on the humidity atm. And because of cold outside temps no fresh air at the moment. They in the same room they r always in this time of year.

 

[SpiderK]

those buckets suck when your recovering from issues if the bottom 1/3rd is not perlite, no root oxygen.

did you take a bucket off and look at roots zone ? what kind of soil mix ? tons of perlite / drainage on bottom sides of that bucket ?

 

[CriticalWorm]

Not the bucket of choice but cheap. Lots of big holes drilled in bottom. And I put a bunch off hec in the bottom off bucket and then hec mixed with pro mix few grams of rare earth. Didn't add extra dolimite lime like I usually do but they are not that old I don't Thk they should even need extra yet.

 

[SpiderK]

i'd drop a bucket off and look at color of roots. ( take pic of roots and leaf with normal lighting )

how long have you run your mix before this ? have you run many good grows yet with this setup in this room ?

city water or well water. my well ph's at 6.7 nothing ever needed. / water from stream ....

 

[CriticalWorm]

Feeding with sensi grow 2 part left over from last year. I only gave them a few feeds of it and was working amazing b4 I left. But didn't work so gd the way my buddy used it Thoe lol

 

[SpiderK]

8mil, maybe 2 liters per plant per feeding ... but roots could look like crap today, you could even trim them up and put fresh soil in bottom ....

 

[CriticalWorm]

This would not have gone near this far if I was here. well I was gone he told me about the troubles I had him flu has them but he didn't do it right they keep greying worse. I new I had everything all ready for a transplant so I had him do it. So they have only been in these buckets for 2 weeks tops. And they haven't been growing so I prob can't find any roots if I wanted too

 

[CriticalWorm]

I have been ruining this mother room the same way for many years

 

[CriticalWorm]

First time I ever had to leave for more than a few days. I won't want to do that again

 

[CriticalWorm]

Flushed heavily last night praying it helps. Flushed 1 bucket with reg ph 7 water, flushed 2 with water ph at 6. And flushed 1 with a ph of closer to 5. Runoff on all buckets apear to be the same ph as I put in the bucket. Hoping I see atleast 1 bucket come around in the next couple days. Runoff out of each bucket was yellow. Looked like piss.

 

[tinderthumbs]

looks like the need some mag to me

when u flush how much water u using???

 

[CriticalWorm]

I used close to 20 litres per bucket. Was wondering if I should have added Epsom salt. I didn't flush one off them I just watered it with 2 litres of ph 6 water with Epsom salt added trying dog gent things to see if anyone works better. Was scared to give them anything till I know the problem

 

[tinderthumbs]

yah I would go with Epsom salt just be light handed with it u will burn fast but works fast as well when flushing u use 3x the water of the size of the planter so a 5g gets 15g of water to do a full flush

did u happen to get the ppms of the run off?

 

[CriticalWorm]

You Thk I should flush again and use Epsom salt or let them dry out some first. scared the roots are staring to crave some oxygen.

 

[tinderthumbs]

if they looking the same and not worst id let dry out keep a close eye on them then test some run of to see if it is a lock out and to see if u fixed it with last flush u say u have a plant u did not flush out?

 

[CriticalWorm]

Not sure if any are getting better or worse. So much yellow it's hard to tell. Might have to give them another day too see. And yes one off the moms I did not flush just fed some Epsom salt. But it was one of the better ones. Different strain. But there all suffering. Need to see improvement ASAP atleast on one of them. I'm stressing as much as they are.

 

[CriticalWorm]

Hash plant that I did not flush. Fed 2l with epsomsalt ph 6