Hydro Help!!!
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Is that a real pic of you
How do you keep your res sterile
ARMY_OF_ONE_92Y
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You maybe over thinking son; KISS method is best for a first grow.
1. Fill Rez once a week and don't worry about nute strength being diminished. Top off with plain water if need be but don't add more nutes until you change Rez.
2. If you have ANY beneficial bacteria or fungi in your Rez DO NOT use H2O2 because it'll kill all your bennies and what ever else may be lurking.
3. diffrent strains require different levels of food and even clones from the same mom can even be picky. Just call it personality.
4. Climate control is the key. Get your heat out and cold in; humidity won't hurt you at all just let it be.
5. It's not a numbers game to be honest; get in tuned with your inner dr green thumb and study your plants strains.
1. Fill Rez once a week and don't worry about nute strength being diminished. Top off with plain water if need be but don't add more nutes until you change Rez.
2. If you have ANY beneficial bacteria or fungi in your Rez DO NOT use H2O2 because it'll kill all your bennies and what ever else may be lurking.
3. diffrent strains require different levels of food and even clones from the same mom can even be picky. Just call it personality.
4. Climate control is the key. Get your heat out and cold in; humidity won't hurt you at all just let it be.
5. It's not a numbers game to be honest; get in tuned with your inner dr green thumb and study your plants strains.
Thanks army of one..maybe I am tripping more than I should..it just scares me when my babies start messing up out of no where , then I'm freaking our try a figure out what it is....they ate a Lil burnt now..leaves are a darker green with faded yellow, I lowered the nutes, so hopefully it will be corrected soon
ARMY_OF_ONE_92Y
Active Member
No prob man and it seems like you just gave them nute burn. Remember less is more in DWC because nutes are always there no matter what you do even if it's just plain water. Plants have stored energy in fan leaves and when they start leaching yellow then they are hungry. Think of it as a human, we have stored energy in our FAT and when we starve we the body starts to eat it's self.
We can get technical and say muscle is eaten first but I'm pretty sure you get the idea right.
Post pictures if you can please
We can get technical and say muscle is eaten first but I'm pretty sure you get the idea right.
Post pictures if you can please
I'm trying, it's not letting me, can't find where it says upload, it's like gone..or am I too high lol
ARMY_OF_ONE_92Y
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This is your post bro. Is it possible you turned it off? I don't see it either, maybe someone else can help you out with the photo share.
ARMY_OF_ONE_92Y
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Oh it seems like you need 3 different members to like something you post. Then you "unlock" more things for your account. I read it in the trophys and it seems like it's a acceivement of some sort.
HydroRed
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No, just found it a good video to convey good explanation of your question.
Budley Doright
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Don't keep changing shit lol. What do your roots look like, is it possible to get a pic up? Your tent temps and humidity are fine but your res temps are probably a bit high, you will run into issues if your room is 80 and your not chilling the res, trust me I know lol. And as red stated change is ok but do one thing at a time not 10, again trust me lol. As for PH I tend to run lower at 5.8 and let it drop to 5.5-.6 them change it up. It's way easier for me to dump and fill every 6-14 days than top up but that's setup. The top up thing is basically the Lucas formula which seems to work well. I never exceed 1.2-.3 ec and that's in the throws of flower. I don't use RO so no clue about the calmag ratios but could that be a tad high? Reds steering you in the right direction and u just need to tweek things. The running the intake to the outlet of the AC might not be a bad thing as it will be considerably colder air, don't fastened to the AC but let it passively pull in the colder air but really if that's what your canopy temp is that's ok. Also leaving your roots out for twenty minutes won't do shit, my floods are every hour at your stage 
. But get a drain on that thing and no need to pull them out, just drain it, you'll have a hell of a time in a few weeks lol. Did one of your plants touch a bulb where the leaves are all wrinkled?
. But get a drain on that thing and no need to pull them out, just drain it, you'll have a hell of a time in a few weeks lol. Did one of your plants touch a bulb where the leaves are all wrinkled?Don't keep changing shit lol. What do your roots look like, is it possible to get a pic up? Your tent temps and humidity are fine but your res temps are probably a bit high, you will run into issues if your room is 80 and your not chilling the res, trust me I know lol. And as red stated change is ok but do one thing at a time not 10, again trust me lol. As for PH I tend to run lower at 5.8 and let it drop to 5.5-.6 them change it up. It's way easier for me to dump and fill every 6-14 days than top up but that's setup. The top up thing is basically the Lucas formula which seems to work well. I never exceed 1.2-.3 ec and that's in the throws of flower. I don't use RO so no clue about the calmag ratios but could that be a tad high? Reds steering you in the right direction and u just need to tweek things. The running the intake to the outlet of the AC might not be a bad thing as it will be considerably colder air, don't fastened to the AC but let it passively pull in the colder air but really if that's what your canopy temp is that's ok. Also leaving your roots out for twenty minutes won't do shit, my floods are every hour at your stage
No my plant didn't touch the light, it got like that from the nute burn. My res temp are like 66-68 it says my room temp in the tent is 82 but it Def feels a lot cooler than that. Out side the tent in the room it's like 68-72 but my tent where I'm suppose to pull the cold air in is against the wall, so I think I'm not pulling in as much. I have a 6 inch inlet fan. I wanna b post pics but I guess I need people to like my post like 4 or something lol
And also I'm not chaging nothing for awhilr, let them bounce back on the low nute strength before I bump it up. I have these co2 buckets I'd like to some how utilize. .but I guess it don't work with my system I got.
HydroRed
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@Budley Doright giving some good advice. x2 on the drain for your res.....I guess I coulda mentioned that haha
I was going to post some pics, but RIU is being funny style with the pic uploads the last cpl days. The option isnt there for me either right now. I'll get back with some pics for you @stezzy
I was going to post some pics, but RIU is being funny style with the pic uploads the last cpl days. The option isnt there for me either right now. I'll get back with some pics for you @stezzy
Budley Doright
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Typically nute burn will turn the leaf tips brown and I didn't see that but may have missed it. It's amazing that your res temps are that cool with ambient at even 75, are the res's sitting in a cold floor? Not that I suggesting that you change from H2O2 but after using it from the start I switched to teas and rot set in, I tried many things to cure it and the only thing that touched it was hydroguard and res temps cooled to around 66. This is where trying to much comes in as I threw a bunch of shit at it so not sure what the key was. I do know that my root mat was 4-5" thick at the end of the grow. I also grow in a stacked tote thing with it flooding and completely draining on timed cycles with no air stones, I hate air stones lol. Your plants do look good but yes they are a bit dark. With your 3 part are you able to lower the grow amount, thus lowering the N? I think that's kind of the ideal with the 3 part, you can change ratio's to suit the plant.
HydroRed
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I was suprised at his low res temps too. I have mine on a cement slab under the table in the dark with ambient room temps of 75-77 and my res is still at 71* right now. I only have a tiny 2 diaphram air pump for my air stones and it doesn't produce shit for heat in the air to the stones. I had another commercial air pump that basically blew hot air into the stones raising my res temps. Took me a friggin week to figure out why my res was getting so warm haha
Well guys I'm just using a regular chiller 1/10 hp.. I have it set for 67. .and on average each day it stays between 66 and 68...never no higher. I'm using a 38 gallon tub so it keeps water cool longer. It's on the tent which is on top of carpet. I can get my grow room down to 70-72...but the tent says it's 78-82...I'm not sure why my temp stay low but it is...I just use the nutes...and h202..but it's working good..I wanna show you guys pictures but it won't let me... but they are bouncing back nicely and fast from the nute burn