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It seems to happen when I switch to bloom nutrients. I switched to bloom nutrients after week one of flower. I used dynagro bloom which has an npk 3-12-6. I’ve noticed that if I use veg nutrients longer while in flower that the buds do not get big and ripe. I flood every 2 hours now, I’m...

I can’t drain to waste, it would be too wasteful. Basically my 55 gallon drum floods the buckets from the bottom and then after 30 min they drain back into the 55 gallon drum. My roots are not constantly in water, they are being flooded every 2 hours. Any more tips?

I flood with clay pebbles. Man those things are so fucking hard to clean!!! I feed every 4 hours during veg but then in flower I bump it up to every 2 hours. You flood less with bigger plants?

Can you link any of these? I’m searching and can’t find anything

Do you think that I’m running into these issues because I’m flooding too often at every 2 hours?

When I’m in veg and have tried to feed at .5 ec, my ec seems to slightly go up within 24 hours, water level doesn’t move much ( if any) but my ph kept just shooting up from 5.5 to 6.3 within 24 hours. I noticed I was getting deficiencies and I bumped up the ec to 1.6. And my plants looked a lot...

I have a 55 gallon drum

My plants drink a ton of water… but I find it strange that ideally the water level should drop and ec should remain constant.. I would think that if the water is dropping that the concentration of nutrients just gets stronger. I can’t go a whole week without adding water

That’s why I ask questions… too much shit on the internet that contradicts itself

I just add in a little bit of nutrients. I use dyna gro bloom and since my water level Drops and the ec is 1.8, I add in enough nutrients to get it back to 2.3 just read this on a website “ One problem in hydroponics solution maintenance is that as water is being taken up by the plants (as well...

so how do I maintain an ec If I’m constantly adding water that is dropping it? Should I not be topping off with more nutrients to keep it at a certain level?

how often are you feeding them? Every 3 hours or what? What’s the max ec that you givethem

Okay so let me get this straight.. if the water level drops and the ec is still the same from the day prior then we are in the sweet zone? I was under the impression that when the water level drops that the ec would automatically go up because the plants are just drinking the water and not the...

I use RO water, so hardly any ec there

okay gotcha! Do your nutrients recirculate then? If I constantly top off with water, I noticed that my ec dropped to .8 last run and then the leaves got wayyy yellow and dried out