First Timer, What am I doing wrong?

a hempy bucket is exactly what your doing... its a soilless grow... ppl use coco coir, vermiculite, perlite, or a combination of the 3... you also add hydroton, or rocks to the bottom of your pot to create a reservoir and to help with drainage... essentially the roots grow to this reservoir area at the bottom where it essentially drinks up the water and nutes... its the same as growing hydro when you look at it... thats why ph is especially important... if your ph runoff is 6.0-6.1 look at the nutrients your plant isnt taking in... you need to lower your watering ph to about 5.5 and hope that corrects the problem... i also looked up your nutes and your npk is foliage pro 9-3-6 and protekt0-0-3... 2-3 tsp sounds a bit much to be using on younger plants... i use the flora nove grow and bloom... the grow is a 7-4-10 and with my two week old plants they only get about 1/2 tsp per gallon and i increase the amount of nutes each week with 1 tbsp per gallon being the max... too much at once is a bad thing...

im not saying 5.5 is the ideal... im only suggesting that you bring it down to better put you in the 5.8 range...

Originally Posted by jaag102882

a hempy bucket is exactly what your doing... its a soilless grow... ppl use coco coir, vermiculite, perlite, or a combination of the 3... you also add hydroton, or rocks to the bottom of your pot to create a reservoir and to help with drainage... essentially the roots grow to this reservoir area at the bottom where it essentially drinks up the water and nutes... its the same as growing hydro when you look at it... thats why ph is especially important... if your ph runoff is 6.0-6.1 look at the nutrients your plant isnt taking in... you need to lower your watering ph to about 5.5 and hope that corrects the problem... i also looked up your nutes and your npk is foliage pro 9-3-6 and protekt0-0-3... 2-3 tsp sounds a bit much to be using on younger plants... i use the flora nove grow and bloom... the grow is a 7-4-10 and with my two week old plants they only get about 1/2 tsp per gallon and i increase the amount of nutes each week with 1 tbsp per gallon being the max... too much at once is a bad thing...

I appreciate the advice and will look into what my run off should be in coco drain to waste as I see that being the most likely culprit BUT,

1. these are not hempy buckets and using "soilless grow" as a definition for a hempy bucket is pretty generic and can refer to many kinds of grow styles.
2. the recommended feeding on the bottle is 2-3 tsp or 10-15ml per gallon but i went on to say that I am using about 1.5 to 2 ml per gallon which is less than what you are feeding at 2.5 ml per gallon

well thats what a hempy grow is... its hydro with no pumps(electrical) or soil...

Anyone else know what the ideal runoff for coco is? I am reading some people saying its not worth checking and others saying 6.0 is ideal Just want to be sure I am doing it right.

u got them at a club ur growing clones trust me also keep ph at 5.7 u want 5.9 run off as normal for root zone to be slighlty higher than input.2(-.2 being best either way just means plants need were higher on day than next so it ate less n drank more making ur nutes slightly stronger this returns to normal as depends what time of day ur sample was taken) means thier eaten well also u need nutes higher than 200 ur reduseing their food this way not increasing it this is ur problem clones that size were feed at least 400-500 ppm days after gettn first roots ur making plant eat itself right now leading to this state there in FEED THESE GIRLS SOMETHING LOL

passive hydro ponic's round these parts thats called

Ok so your saying they are just being under fed and I should up the nutes? I will give it a shot I was just afraid to burn them.