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Plants doing bad, lost for ideas. Need advice!

Scrogerman

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? flush & treat with H2O2, will fix your issue!

? flush & treat with H2O2, will fix your issue!

Hey Dude,
Sorry to see you having these issues, Scrogger stepping up to help out if i can too, i run NFT have been for many years buddy, amounst other styles too. lets see, first off, my first impression was you have nute lock for sure man, Cal-Def & Heat stress. PH down, ec 0.2(was is?), thats very weak & you would expect your PH to drift up not down, OK so this leads me to Res temps & Bad Bacterial issues, imo its the only other explination. You need to run a sterilising agent first off to kill any nasties/pathogens in your res, break it all down one step at a time man. The rockwool in NFT needs flushing with a real weak nute solution once a fortnight to prevent salt build up in the cubes, which will cause nute lock, so flush then through with 200ppm solution EC-0.2-0.3, next, Right, get some OXY+ bro, its h2o2 & will kill every bit of bacteria(good+bad), run at 5ml per 10liters of res solution. Do this every 24 hr exactly, for a week. after doing this, your PH will stop fluctuating/drifting down. Run 1/4 strength nutes the whole time, your PPM's wanna be around 300 or EC-0.6. Thats with your cal-Mag additive added too, Once you've flushed out your RW cubes & sterilised your res with H2o2 for a week, your res should return back to normal. Growell is open today so there aint no excuses lol. Flush Cubes, EC-0.2 solution-ph5.6. apply OXY+./H2O2 at 5mls per 10 litres for 1 week. your problems should be over. Good Luck bro'
Any Q's PM me Bro.
Peace........Scroger! ;)
 

ITryToGrow

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Thanks Scroger!

Things are sure looking better now, not 100%, but I guess it takes time. :D

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Scrogerman

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WoW dude,
Thats a real nice looking set-up, well done man. So running the H2o2 has fixed things up, what brand of H2O2 did you run in the end? New growth is looking better & healthy now is it?
what is the PH doing now man? What EC/PPMs are you running now? I hope this works out for you man.
If PH drifts down it can only be one of '2' things. PPMs too hot, or a bacterial issue, which the h2o2 would have fixed up by now! Whats the latest bro?
btw, what size are those lamps, they look too close tbh, but it depends what size they are, they would be ok if there 70w hps, but 250w or bigger there gonna need to be at a set distance away, but depending on the size!

Peace.......Scroger!
 

ITryToGrow

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WoW dude,
Thats a real nice looking set-up, well done man. So running the H2o2 has fixed things up, what brand of H2O2 did you run in the end? New growth is looking better & healthy now is it?
what is the PH doing now man? What EC/PPMs are you running now? I hope this works out for you man.
If PH drifts down it can only be one of '2' things. PPMs too hot, or a bacterial issue, which the h2o2 would have fixed up by now! Whats the latest bro?
btw, what size are those lamps, they look too close tbh, but it depends what size they are, they would be ok if there 70w hps, but 250w or bigger there gonna need to be at a set distance away, but depending on the size!

Peace.......Scroger!

Thanks man! I've put a lot of thought and planning into it. Some kinks still to be figured out, but I'm getting there... :D

I went with the Essentials OxyPlus.

pH is much more stable and EC is ~0.6, so it's looking good. :)

I've also ordered some Bio Balancer from Canadian Xpress, it's supposed to be a good addition after you've gotten rid of all the nasties in the system.

Bulbs in the hoods are 600's (MH) and the vertical ones are 400's (MH). It might be the angle that deceives you, they're not that close about 2 feet away, leaf-temps are around 78F so I think it's all good. But I might be wrong, time will tell.

Check out my diary in my sig. :yes:

Cheers,

ITTG
 

Scrogerman

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Yeah Looking good Itry!#Exellent work, i too use the Essentials h2o2(hydrogarden is'nt it),
The Bio Balance is Beneficials Bacteria is it? Good move! Nice Work man, G'Luck!
Peace......Scroger! ;) ;) ;)
 
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