Hydro Nute Problem with pics... Help Needed

You are pretty much where you want to be imo.....Next res change go with RO water
and I'd do....

CalMAg 300.....i would leave this number all the way through your grow

PB Bloom 600 (top out at 700ppm)
LK Same as whatever you are using (top out at 7ml/gal)
Sweet....same as whatever you are using (same as LK) and then if no problems.....go to the max. But if you encounter the same issue (big drop in numbers...) I probably wouldn't RAISE nutes....just change res more often to keep a balance.

You are pretty much looking at what I flower my plants with....the only change I make is increase the bloom nutes by about 100ppm when I switch over the to bloom booster.....ends up at 700... ending with about 1350 ish....I don't really go above that.

How high are you thinking you want to go cause after that you are on your own....;)

If you can change your rez to fresh stuff tomorrow I would....clean slate to watch plants from if possible and if trends continue just make the CalMAg part of your regular nutes. I think this is a good idea to do very soon because they seem to have stopped sucking everything down. What if they stopped sucking things down because they ran out of something?? ....We don't really know and we don't want that which is why I suggest a fresh start tomorrow. If you get the same trend tomorrow (big drop right away then nothing)...I'd probably change the rez again until I got an even trend going. Make sense?

MVP...you can't rush these girls.....they will need time to recover. All you can do here is play defense and watch them carefully. They will take some extra time and I don't think there is any way around that. I think if you try to push too much too fast you will burn them.....not worth that worry after all this work you've done.

Your turn to wait and see....:D ;)

All right MVP......what's going on over there....???? :wtf: Update please. ;)

Another day.... am I making progress? I'm not sure. :wtf:

PPM rose a smidge from 1075 to 1090
PH rose from 5.5 to 5.7

I'm an eternal optimist but I can't decipher what the numbers mean since I cannot seem to find a pattern. The plan is to do a res change with new nutes either tonight or tomorrow early morning before I get out of town for a few days.

Not to worry I have a babysitter for the girls I am training for when I am gone a few days. ;)

MVP I'm not sure you can find a pattern until you repeat the same process a few times....thats why I suggested fresh nutes for today. So we could create the right enviroment to be able to track things accurately. How do the plants LOOK? That's more important to me than the numbers. And whats the ph?

Here are some pics that are shot with the HPS on so they don't show too well....

I'm wondering why the leaves on the main colas are turning up... on a different site it said they are "praying for MG", but stinky says that is a myth. Any ideas?

Plants look slightly better (color-wise) but are not exhibiting new growth yet.

PH is 5.7, up from 5.5 last night

I'm sorry MVP...i looked at the photos but I'm afraid I'm not quite sure what you mean with the colas turned up. I didn't see anythig weird but.....lighting ....etc....could you explain a little better for me?

are you talking about the leaf edges curled up? You know....I've just heard TWICE recently about a low/abnormal ph causing the leaf edges to curl up.....although Stinky wisely thought heat first.....check both.....calibrate your meter if you haven't lately

I'm guessing its probably heat. When we have a 80 degree day here like we did 2 weeks ago, my temp climb to 85 F at the canopy, sometimes a few degrees more. I have been calibrating my pHep about 2x month to be on the safe side.


So Hound, how is Kushette? Does she have her own thread yet?

She's doing really well. :thumbsup: I've bought a bunch of supplies to get ready for cloning...but I won't hog your thread here with that stuff. I am going to update later today on everyone because I got some brand new hydro toys to play with too. :)