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Is it Me, or Is It My Bucket? (xPost)
- Thread starter SuperBonBon
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If your only at 400ppm max its def. time to feed them. Adding that 4tsp should definitely help.
SuperBonBon
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Merry Christmas Everyone! I had to leave the ladies for the holiday and visit folks, so I kinda was praying when I left that I wouldn't come back to a disaster.
I was half relieved. When I got back, the plants had indeed shown signs of improvement. Unfortunately, when I raised my waterfall up, the extension on the draw tube wasn't long enough and my water ran too low. Either I forgot to fill the rez before I left, or the waterfall was pouring all my water onto the floor. Either way, I've got it fixed and everything is running well again.
For all you old grinches out there, Santa brought me new meters! I can now pretty certainly tell you all you want to know about PPM and pH. No EC yet, but damn man, Santa's only got so much room.
pH of tap water is absurdly high it seems. Over 9. The starting PPM is about 175.
Rez pH seems to want to drift towards 6. Started out at 5.5 earlier today when I added water/nutrients, but got back up to 5.95 by this evening. Isn't getting higher than that yet (couple of hours). This seems to be the norm from the reading on BioBuckets I've done.
PPM in the rez is 790 right now. Subtracting the starting PPM brings it down to 615.
Here's the latest pictures. Definite progress, but they're still not as healthy as I'd like to see them.
Any suggestions from anyone? I need to get these healthy fast. All this time I'm nursing them back, they're getting bigger and outgrowing my flowering space. Anyone think I should chunk the runts and get new healthy clones?
Thanks and High Holidays!
SuperBonBon
I was half relieved. When I got back, the plants had indeed shown signs of improvement. Unfortunately, when I raised my waterfall up, the extension on the draw tube wasn't long enough and my water ran too low. Either I forgot to fill the rez before I left, or the waterfall was pouring all my water onto the floor. Either way, I've got it fixed and everything is running well again.
For all you old grinches out there, Santa brought me new meters! I can now pretty certainly tell you all you want to know about PPM and pH. No EC yet, but damn man, Santa's only got so much room.
pH of tap water is absurdly high it seems. Over 9. The starting PPM is about 175.
Rez pH seems to want to drift towards 6. Started out at 5.5 earlier today when I added water/nutrients, but got back up to 5.95 by this evening. Isn't getting higher than that yet (couple of hours). This seems to be the norm from the reading on BioBuckets I've done.
PPM in the rez is 790 right now. Subtracting the starting PPM brings it down to 615.
Here's the latest pictures. Definite progress, but they're still not as healthy as I'd like to see them.
Any suggestions from anyone? I need to get these healthy fast. All this time I'm nursing them back, they're getting bigger and outgrowing my flowering space. Anyone think I should chunk the runts and get new healthy clones?
Thanks and High Holidays!
SuperBonBon
SuperBonBon
Member
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Just thought I'd drop this in here. Thanks to those that deserve it.
These are the same plants as before, sorry to say. Going out of town, light leaks in my cabinet and power getting shut off all delayed things. These babies have been cut back three times now. Hopefully they'll stay around this size (about 10 days into flowering) and I won't have to cut anything else off.
A five gallon resevoir, no change outs, supporting this kind of growth. Sounds like a bio-bucket to me.
It was definitely a pH problem that was screwing things up. Tap water around here is 10.
Grow on.
Follow Up
Just thought I'd drop this in here. Thanks to those that deserve it.
These are the same plants as before, sorry to say. Going out of town, light leaks in my cabinet and power getting shut off all delayed things. These babies have been cut back three times now. Hopefully they'll stay around this size (about 10 days into flowering) and I won't have to cut anything else off.
A five gallon resevoir, no change outs, supporting this kind of growth. Sounds like a bio-bucket to me.
It was definitely a pH problem that was screwing things up. Tap water around here is 10.
Grow on.
