Help Save my plants

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Originally Posted by birdboy

I dont have updated pics just yet. will post soon.
heres the scoop.
I pulled one Feminized seeded baby, I found to be a male, from the pack I put him seperate away from the rest under floressant light vs the 1000 w hps where all the other sick girls are at.
I am assuming the male became Male due to the stress I put her under . BUT now under florressant light and away from pack he is growning 2 plus inches and looking great, still has leaves with nuke burn but got NEW GROWTH
I am WONDERING now if I have issues more ... such as enough oxygen supply to room there all in? I have humidifer, heater to control heat at 72 for night, a box air conditioner to control cool, I am noticiing a a white flim on my mylar on the walls. My venting is coming and going from the attic, 6".Ny room is a 7 ft by 7 ft by 10 feet tall lights are 3.5 ft above plants ,so not to burn . the tempature stays 76-80 at all times under light, at night doesnt drop below 72
I ma thinking of taking the girls out of the hydro am am way too confused.
What do you think ?

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Aloha Birdboy

I hate to insert my nose here as you are in excellent hands.
But, I fear you may be too kind to these girls.
I'm referring to the distilled water.
Hydro nutes expect tap water with some "beef"
About 250 ppm of "dirt" in the tap water is a good place to start.
If you use RO or distilled water always add enough Calmag to bring it up to about 250ppm., then mix in the nutes to the proper strength.
I usually run about 800 ppm, but I've seen strains tolerate 1400ppm.

Without a Calmag supplement to distilled water you may see yellowing leaves with large brown spots that go necrotic.:(

Thought I should also mention that hydrotron pellets will saturate with highnutes and will not flush as easily as soil, coco, or rockwool.:twocents:

Carry on.:D
Weezard

The girls are coming back but the biggest issue i am having is the room they are in . I have a box airconditioner in there with them and it seems everytime i put them in the room they sag when i take them out adn let them enjoy sunlight or my florrisant light the perk back up grow . is the box cooler cuasing this?
I am on well water so i was advised not to use my well water .
I have my nutes are at only 140 ppm
when i boosted it to 160 they started to wilt again.
I will be posting pics today for you to see [please advise}

Thank you to everyone who helped me with my girls they are looking wonderful . Thought i would post new pics so you can see what wonders they have survived.
Thanks for al the advice

Way to go, man. Plants are looking good and we learned something new. Everytime I can screw up and recover I learn. If not I start again and learn.

hey there,
so i just wanted to lay a few things out there. im also on well water for the last few months and it comes out about 200ppm and 7.1ph. they seem to like it. heres a pic of my first well water run with bubba kush after 4 weeks of flower. whanted to share because these are also under 1000hps. about 36in tall, had a 3 week veg. they are in black gold coco blend in 12in mesh bottom pots on once a day E&F watering. GH flora 3 part with floralisious+ ;1200-1300ppm. i also add calmag at 3-5ml/gl or up to 10ml/gl retroactive. i use a few other things the last 2-3 weeks. it normally takes me about 2ml/gl of ph down to hit 6.0ph.
i also used hydroton at one point but they are a bitch to clean and flush. its all now part of a landfill.
are you testing your flush runoff? how long have you been flushing now? i dont think they will live too long or do very well at 150ppm... im kinda confused...what knid of tester are you using?

also you need to fill this out as best you can with as much info as you can:thumbsup:

H=Answer if you grow hydro or aero
C=Answer if you grow coco
S=Answer if you grow traditional soil
L=Answer if you grow soilless other than coco (Promix, Hyponex, SunshineMix)
R=Answer if you grow in RockWool
T=Answer if you grow in HydroTon
D=Answer if you run any type of automatic drip system, including into soil or soilless
E= EVERYONE needs to answer lol!


E-indoor or outdoor
E-soil, soilless, coco, aero, or hydroponic
E-specific medium
CSL-Soil type/brand
HCL-Hydro/aero/soilless system type
SCL-Anything you have added to the soil
SCLR-Soil or slab runoff pH
E-Water source
E-Source water pH
HRT-Source water EC (if hydro)
E-Age of plant
E-Type of fertilizer
E-Rate of application (if hydro, this is your PPM number, preferably after each component is added)
E-Lighting source and distance from plant
E-Air temperature (both day and night if you are running a dark period)
HD-Reservoir temperature
E-Air % Relative humidity
E-Lighting schedule
E-Type of ventilation your room has
TR-Did you pre-soak your media in pH corrected solution?

I am now at 180 ppms and slowly adding more nutes per day.
We flushed and tested adn the ppms were coming out from straight clean water and peroxide to 150 ppms once we flushed for 24 hours we started back on the nutes at 120 adn then gradually have been increasing the nutes as welll as adding cal-mag ]
the girls have grown 2 -4 inches since they have had the flush
I am believing the nute burn is gone and now we are just starting back fresh
with them.

we also stopped using the box airconditioner and they started perking up as well as now under florrisant lights and turnign green again.

i was told once by the owner of my hydro shop that any ac unit not designed for the grow room needs to be placed outside the room and then duct the cold air into the room. that may have just been because of the heat output of the ac unit, or the smell, but if you dont want to spend the 500 for new gorw ac then you may want to look up more info on it.

I would guess an a/c unit in a growroom is bad as it draws all the moisture out of the air, they are basically a dehumidifier. The water that is produced by them is what was your humidity!

Subzero. :thumbsup:

I am a newbie 13 days into hydrophonic grownth.
PH 5.75
Nutrients 9 EC using calibrated Nutrient meter with auto temp compensation.
Temp 80 degees.
Lights 600 watt incandecent equivalent Florescent grow bulbs in reflectors 3 inces above plants, on 24/7.
One plant got root damage due to my being clumbsy.
4 small fans running 24/7.
Small closet door open 24/7.

I am loosing bottom leaves but on healthy plant new growth at node of each fallen leaf. I have left leaves
on until they either fall off or new growth is looking viable.

Is it normal for bottom leaves to fall off?

I also have pictures but do not know how to post them here. Any help with posting picture would be helpful aldo.

Thank You,
Cheryl
:)