Quote Originally Posted by wordsandwich
I ended up having to wait a week for my nutes to arrive in the mail. I had them shipped and the shipper took their sweet ass time....anyway today I got some fox farm grow big (hydro formula 3-2-6) and also tiger bloom (for flowering). I emptied the res today and added about a gallon of spring water with grow big at about 1/3 strength. The spots on the leaves have gotten worse (see pics) and one of the plants has very curled leaves which I think is a phosphorus deficiency (again see pics) but needless to say none of my plants are in great shape. I should have my 250 HID in the mail any day now, it's an HPS ballast with a MH conversion bulb. so here are my questions:

1) Is it possible for these plants to bounce back? or should I scrap this grow and start over once I get my HID lamp?

2) what steps would you recommend I take from here? including nute schedule and when to start using the 250w HID. I am thinking I probably want the plants to show significant improvement before I jam them under an HID..

any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated...thanks
Go out to the store right now and get a pH up and some Muratic Acid for pH down. Get a measure spoon thats small. You need pin head drops. Get your plant to around 5.8 or 5.9 and raise it up to about 6.0 to 6.6 around week 3 or so. The plants raise pH in the soil after 8 hours and that allows the different nuets to be released because dif neuts are released at different pH in the 6.2 to 6.6 range. When there young though keep it low so it wont stress them to bad.

:rastasmoke: Happy growing man.