What is wrong with me!!

[shg_man]

hey there cannabis world!! I was wondering if anyone out there has an idea what the hell is wrong with these girls!! Its driving me absolutly nuts!! A quick background on conditions is as follows.. these are in veg.. 3 wks old.. I use r. o. water as my tap water is very hard (500-700ppm) does any else use r o water? i keep my ph around 6.6 and run the nutrients at around 6oo ppm till flowering. i use cal max around 3 times a cycle.temps are good for veg i use dnf nutrients.this is really driving me up the wall so any help would be greatly thanked. Maybe the great mynamestich has an idea?

 

[10k]

How could anyone tell you whats wrong without you giving a picture, or even a written description of what the girls are looking like ?

 

[shg_man]

hey the pics are in the gallery!!

 

[glasspackedbowl]

look like some sort of defiency. Is it soil or hydro? I guessing soil because If the Ph u gave. Ph them to 6.0 they will like that. To me I think it might be a mag problem. Try using a salt leach and maybe 2 crystals of epson salt.

 

[HempKat]

Well I'm a soil guy so I could be wrong but you are describing a hydro setup. A ph of 6.6 is spot on for soil but too high for hydro. I believe hydro is supposed to be in the 5.5 range? This very well could cause a nute lock out and that would show up like a deficiency or multiple deficiencies.

 

[shg_man]

i am in soilless (promix) i don't know if its a mag problem.. i keep up on it with the cal max because the r.o. water is devoid of any micro newts. i have a tds pen so i know what concentration of newts i am running.. its around 500-700 in veg and then up to 900-1100 in full bloom.. Whats a salt leach? Thought you wanted to get the salts out?


thanks for all the feed back!!

 

[ogrefugee]

i don't think it is a mag def since your ph is high (mag is best absorbed in a soilless @ 5.8+). I think it is a Phossphorus def. Phosphorus gets locked out of Hydro and Soil less Mediums at ph levels of 6.0-8.5. This makes sense because your ph is higher.

try to aim for a ph of 5.8-6.0 (sigh, this is why i never grow soilless, it always seems to be more prone to nute lockouts than soil or hydro...)




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http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=11688

 

[shg_man]

hey thanks orge... so thats 2 pps that think should lower my ph. Anyone else? I've never herd of a phoss def in veg b4 but i am listening.. Does any else use r.o. water? How do they fair with it and what newts are they running?

Thanks for all the great advice guys!!!

 

[HempKat]

i am in soilless (promix) i don't know if its a mag problem.. i keep up on it with the cal max because the r.o. water is devoid of any micro newts. i have a tds pen so i know what concentration of newts i am running.. its around 500-700 in veg and then up to 900-1100 in full bloom.. Whats a salt leach? Thought you wanted to get the salts out?


thanks for all the feed back!!

That's what a salt leech does, it helps you get the salts out. Leeching means to draw out.

 

[shg_man]

thats what i thought you ment kempkat but i didn't know if there was so new fandgle way of leaching plants



thanks

 

[glasspackedbowl]

for mmy experiiience is works great. Plant leafs point straight up and look likw they need light power. For me it works every time I get into a suposid nute lockout situation.

 

[HempKat]

thats what i thought you ment kempkat but i didn't know if there was so new fandgle way of leaching plants



thanks

Well there are a number of ways, I just use clean water and nothing else. In a system like yours I would think running clean water would wash out any salt build ups fairly quickly.