Yeah, if there is a lot of runoff you need to drain it off somehow, some folks let it sit there for days, which is begging for root problems. I believe your problem will be solved if you water until a bit of runoff happens every time. A bit of runoff doesn't necessarily have to be dumped, depending on your setup, it might just evaporate pretty quickly. @ttystikk is a perceptive guy, & he is right, someone should have asked that question sooner.
Man, I have a 4 footer in 3 gallon bag right now. Different strokes! Bird up! http://i.imgur.com/uRHN1JM.gifv
Nice! You went with the single stalk approach. One big donkey dick nugget. Feeding by IV drip to the three roots.
Mines only about 3' ( tree not wrinkled finger ), so for that size, i'm surprised it hasn't spontaneously combusted.. Some good info here, thanks!
No, your EC got out of control because you don't water your plants to the point where they pee a bit and in so doing they carry off the excess nutes.
Thank you, and being a grower of larger plants I disagree with the other poster saying that they need higher EC.
Lol, hardly. I am still hand watering her, soon to be on a dripper, though. 3 cubic feet of roots, more like.
these are growing now with everything you just named and tap water, and they are sticky as hell and nearly done. I've been using AN for three years in dwc and haven't had a failure or headache since lol. Its that you are using them in soil, along with the watering problem, but now that you know you'll be on your way to finding what's best for you. If organic soil is how you want to go then pick a single method and follow that alone til you've got it then branch out. There's a ton of seasoned soil folks here my advice to you is pick one and study that one alone, the cacophony of opinions on internet forums is the worst thing for new folks
Wrong choice for op using soil, but you can grow fire with AN. Why blow all that $ when running soil? Because the local shop needs business.
And because I'm a noob and read the wrong shit . The fox farm advanced nute combo was a bad idea. It all of the sudden makes sense with the input here. This thread really cleared up where I messsed .. I was going to use coco originally, and now that I have all this shit sitting around, maybe I'll transfer my new little buggers into it.
I see that, now. No wonder my plants smell like nutes...
I see that! And for the most part, that's what I've been doing. I've only followed a couple guys on YouTube that I feel I can get reliable info from, but by that part I was already set with my soil & because I had no visible problems, I thought I was doing something right. It wasn't until the last week or so that I realized my plant was smelling like nutes and I knew that couldn't be right.
I left it at 1500 because i ran out of water
Then I figured id leave it for a couple days before i water again ( no nutes) .. i didn't want to drown it.