before and after but more input needed

forest42

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last saturday i asked: what-does-she-want-to-eat https://www.rollitup.org/t/what-does-she-want-to-eat.833257/
then wednesday i asked: what does chlorine do to your plants? https://www.rollitup.org/t/new-dumb-question.834037/

today i ask what do you think is going on and what should i do next?
to me the plants look way better but the ppms keep going up... that seems wrong but i am adding the ph up everyday. so what do you guys think

temp:
room 75-91,
res 75-80(changing out frozen bottle of water in the middle of their 12 hours of light)
vegg plants in aerogarden
before (wed 18)
DSC01251.jpg
thurs: - fresh distilled water from the store with a ph 6
fri: (same water from here out) lucas 3-6
sat: ph6.2, 400ppm
sun: ph5.3, 430ppm --- added 1ml/gal ph up to bring it back to ph6
mon: ph5.3, 473ppm --- added 1ml/gal ph up to bring back to 6
tue: ph5.4, 500ppm --- added 1.5ml/gal ph up to bring it to 6.5
after (today 24)
afterveg.jpg

flower plants in water farm
before (wed 18)
DSC01254.jpg
thurs - fri: fresh distilled water from the store with a ph 6
sat: lucas 5-10
sun: ph5.3, 582ppm added 1ml/gal ph up to bring it back to ph6
mon: ph5.5, 613ppm added 1ml/gal ph up to bring back to 6
tue: ph5.4, 670ppm added 1.5ml/gal ph up to bring it to 6.5
after (today 24)
afterflow.jpg
 
that's not a large increase. top off with fresh water daily, change the res weekly. what brand of nutes are you using? what is your fresh water tds?

get your res temp down to 65-70. otherwise you're asking for pythium.
 
Sounds like your issues is caused by not using a constant supply of the same type of water. Save yourself a bunch of headaches, get an RO machine on ebay or something I picked up a 400GPD for like $300, you can get smaller ones for cheaper. The RO that comes out is 40PPM. Once you do lucas formula to that, theres no need to even mess with the PH because it's gonna be right where it should be around 5.7-5.9 after adding the nutes (unless you're not using GH)?
 
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