criticalkronic
New member
Hi there, im relativly new here and havent posted much. I have built a great grow room ,and decided to switch to coco from terraponics. Of course, i have run into some problems. I am a ok grower, but not perfect with all the nutes and intricacies, so i'll do my best to describe what is going on.
I veg in 7 gallon cloth smartpots, under t-5s. I use coco fiber, straight, on a spray system. The nutes spray 15 seconds every 8 hours. I use general hydroponics drain to waste schedule. In veg, everything works great, roots grow all out the side of the smart pots, and they seem to stay very wet and heavy, but with no problems at all except fast growth, which leaves them a little leggy for my taste.
As they go into flower, they stay on the gh system. 12 plants under 8 600 hps lights. sealed room, 78 at night 88 in the day. 1500 ppm co2. A great sealed climate controlled room. I never have problems to speak of, and assumed this would only be easier, and was wrong apparently. So, the plants have started to droop rather badly. At night they droop very bad, which i belive is normal. They are also turning a pretty light green color. I have 10 G13 in this batch, along with 2 different breeds of OG kush. The OGs seem to be fine. The G's are suffering though. This is the first run in this room, and i did a lot of different things playing with temps and watering times and just getting things to work. I know that is a big obstacle against finding the problem, but I believe that this is something simple and hope someone can see it.
So what I can tell is that the root seemed to have died off. They usually poke out the side of the bags, but there are none now. They have been in flowering for 2 weeks now, and in the beginning I had the temps higher, around 90. This breed grows HUGE in high temps and in my old room with no co2 we would get 18-20 ozs of them in high heat, dramatically less with lower temps. I assumed with the co2 the temps would be fine. I also assumed the plant would need more water with all the magical growing explosions that were to take place in my new awesome room. So I went from 30 seconds of spray every 8 hours to 1 min every 1.5 hours. All this time I wasnt paying to much attention to any problems, since I haven't had any before. So I dont know If I killed the roots with under watering, over watering, or if the co2 is not allowing enough oxy to the roots. So now ive been foliar spraying, and have stopped watering for a couple days to see if they would dry out, which some have a decent amount.
So, any ideas?
I veg in 7 gallon cloth smartpots, under t-5s. I use coco fiber, straight, on a spray system. The nutes spray 15 seconds every 8 hours. I use general hydroponics drain to waste schedule. In veg, everything works great, roots grow all out the side of the smart pots, and they seem to stay very wet and heavy, but with no problems at all except fast growth, which leaves them a little leggy for my taste.
As they go into flower, they stay on the gh system. 12 plants under 8 600 hps lights. sealed room, 78 at night 88 in the day. 1500 ppm co2. A great sealed climate controlled room. I never have problems to speak of, and assumed this would only be easier, and was wrong apparently. So, the plants have started to droop rather badly. At night they droop very bad, which i belive is normal. They are also turning a pretty light green color. I have 10 G13 in this batch, along with 2 different breeds of OG kush. The OGs seem to be fine. The G's are suffering though. This is the first run in this room, and i did a lot of different things playing with temps and watering times and just getting things to work. I know that is a big obstacle against finding the problem, but I believe that this is something simple and hope someone can see it.
So what I can tell is that the root seemed to have died off. They usually poke out the side of the bags, but there are none now. They have been in flowering for 2 weeks now, and in the beginning I had the temps higher, around 90. This breed grows HUGE in high temps and in my old room with no co2 we would get 18-20 ozs of them in high heat, dramatically less with lower temps. I assumed with the co2 the temps would be fine. I also assumed the plant would need more water with all the magical growing explosions that were to take place in my new awesome room. So I went from 30 seconds of spray every 8 hours to 1 min every 1.5 hours. All this time I wasnt paying to much attention to any problems, since I haven't had any before. So I dont know If I killed the roots with under watering, over watering, or if the co2 is not allowing enough oxy to the roots. So now ive been foliar spraying, and have stopped watering for a couple days to see if they would dry out, which some have a decent amount.
So, any ideas?
