Kiwi Hindu Kush needs kharmic injection

Ive looked thru the stickies & I think this Kiwi Seeds Hindu Kush is suffering from Nitrogen deficiency & maybe too high a PH + heat stress. The closet was 100 degrees FH when i took a peak this afternoon. Im on an equivalent handicap of probably 18 in Golfing terms not a noob but by no means a Pro so denial or confirmation of my hackers diagnosis would make a big difference. It's been fed mid strength nutes i.e. 1ml per litre strength & Ive flushed her with plain chlorinated tap water twice.

How do I fix this shit? Had the same issue with an MK Ultra but stuck her in dirt & she came good. Opposite here: started in dirt & now in the hydro. Maybe im just shit at hydro.

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Cheers

BB
 
Radio silence...come on help a brother out peoples. Plant still looks ill. First set of fan leaves have yellowed out to transparancy & tear at the touch. Inspected for mites but none. Have lowered the PH to sub 6.0 & flushed a couple times with dechlorinated H2O. Still on 1ml per 1000 ml of grow solution.

Any help would be awesome at this point.

BB
 

JohnDee

Well-Known Member
BB,
Is there a rockwool cube buried in the hydroton? And how frequently are you watering. With hydroton on Ebb&Flow, watering frequency is 4 or 5 times daily. In Waterfarms, it's continuous. Just curious about what sort of system you have going on there...
JD
 
Hey JD

Thanks for a reply as I was feeling like the Forum Leper.

Its simple...just got the bitch in a jiffy peat pot ditectly into the clay pellets. The net pot sits inside a regular pot that i catch the excess nute runoff in. I water ir twice a day i.e in morn & when I get home around 6pm. Lights off at 8:45pm. Temp is 82-83 Degs FH. A fan blows all day.

Im at a loss as to the root cause man.
 

JohnDee

Well-Known Member
BB,
Hey not to worry on lack of response. When people are puzzled with no obvious answer...they tend to remain silent. Myself, well even if I don't have an answer, I'm a curious guy.

It seems to me from what I know about growing in hydroton, that you are simply not watering and feeding them enough. Would it be possible to rig an automatic top drip system? Are the roots growing out the bottom of the net pot? If not, later they will. And they will probably be drying out. There's a basic flaw to your system. You could convert it to a DWC very easily.
JD
 
Thanks JohnDee. I'll look into it. I'm feeding them more. Could rig up a RDWC easily but that means a trip to the store for another timer.
 
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