I have picked up 4 different distilled water products and it appears to all run in the 5.8 PH range new... adding the Nute takes it lower to around a 5.3 to 5.4. So I am adding a PH up to get it into the 6.5 range..

Since I have already dumped the one plant (that was seriously to far gone to do anything with beyond experiment with) I am now able to better focus on my other gurls.

I noticed yesterday that the Chocolate Berry has deffinate signs of salt build up/heat stress. The areas between the leaves veins are ridged up (bumped up a little). At least it looks just like the photos in books and online stating it to be a heat stress/ salt build up issue. That would actually work in line with the fact that the Fox Farm product is high in salts, and potentially my tap water may be as well, and thus have given myself a lockout of nutes caused by salt build up. (at least to me it makes sense).

2 items

1. Using distilled water at the proper PH should take care of and prevent this happening to this extent again. (Good Action there, but I am curious if I am missing something??)

2. I have a cuurent existing scenario where I think I may need to do some sort of flush?????? I have read info saying to use Sledgehammer. I have read info saying to use regular water?? regluar water at 6 times the pot size (3 galloon pot, flush with 9 gallons).?? I have read info saying that you should flush once a month??? I have read info saying that flushing causes BIG STRESS (no one wants to purposely stress their babies).?? SO.. truly, what is best and why if you could???

Also, with respects to poting and roots etc. I am fighting with the idea that going from clone cube to a 1 gallon pot in veg, then to a 3 gallon pot in flower would be better than going right int0 a 3 gallon pot from cloone cube??? (I guess I am thinking when you plant anything outdoors you dont keep uping its pot size then finall go big)..

Once again.. I am paying attention to all, but then you can only do so much at a time, as I would rather loose a plant or two or three, and truly figure out my strains and what they require best in my enviornment, so that my second round goes smoothly, than throw a tone of things at them have them do OK this time, and not really know what I did to cure their defficiencies..