Yellowing/greenish new growth

Sounds great but how am I supposed to buy 85 gallons of water everytime I flush system? Please tell me how u guys do it

I just finished up a decent run with tap water and nothing for water temp. I had root issues once then started adding hydrogaurd after the water sat for a few day and never had root issues again.

milehightexan said:

Sounds great but how am I supposed to buy 85 gallons of water everytime I flush system? Please tell me how u guys do it

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I am assuming people who only grow this method invest in an in home RO system?

When I get done with this flushed, I’m getting blazed from hell. So the short of the long is my plants roots are why my plants look like that?

At the very least! But there could be more, like your ppm. Don't just listen to advice, even from the best and most knowledgeable, take that advice and apply it to how your plants appear.

Flush with tap and chlorine if you have it.

No one is calling you a liar, milehigh. I don't remember you saying your water was 400 to start. That's some hard water. Light getting to you water is probably the greater problem with algae development. I guess the warm temp didn't help much either.

milehightexan said:

Well like I said it’s 1/2 to 3/4 strength. I’ll take a couple pictures of of the roots. Okay what was said about light burn makes since as well as misting. Could they View attachment 4218583 View attachment 4218585 burned part be from using folios feeding? Anyway I’m posting my roots.

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good as dead

There's a good chance with ppm that high your tap water is far from ok for hydro? From the reading I've done that's way to hard of a starting point. There's absolutely no way, unless you get it tested, to know what in your water.

If you can afford distilled, RO system or at the least bottled spring water you should try ot this next time.

You'll need to resolve your root issues first. In the mean time you could cut your ppm's back a smidge, but until you handle your roots, most anything else is going to be a wasted exercise.

Uncle Reefer said:

I think your light is too bright /too many photons for the temp and level of co2. I would recommend backing that light way off like to 3 to 4 feet and foliar spray with 200 ppm of 10-0-0 granular furt or ammonium nitrate or calcium nitrate. Plus a gran or 2 of Epson salt to balance it out. Young plants can't take too much light till they really get chooching

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Says who?640 watts of cobs over these since day1.plants wanna live.do you put your plants in the shade outdoors?have you ever checked the sun with a par meter.smh at some of the comments on these boards.


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SO there we are you got bad root rot, because your medium is too warm from your light that is too close. You plant is getting lighter in color because it barely has any healthy roots to feed it.

I stand by my recommendation. Once it gets going you can stop with the spraying and bring the light down a bit

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Dude, you said it was light stress..not an issue with warm water! lol. The lights may be making the water too warm, but to raise the lights is no solution as the plants need the light....the solution is, keep your water colder! Not raising the lights higher!

Blitz35 said:

Dude, you said it was light stress..not an issue with warm water! lol. The lights may be making the water too warm, but to raise the lights is no solution as the plants need the light....the solution is, keep your water colder! Not raising the lights higher!

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So with medium that is too hot and a plant with near dead roots , how do you keep it alive and cool off the medium? And when I say medium I mean the pot with the red rocks not the water in the system. It doesntmatter what a happy plant can take in this case. Back off the lights will cool off the works and an 10-00 and a bit of Epsonswill keep it alive till it recovers.
I am sure its not the water temp

Uncle Reefer said:

So with medium that is too hot and a plant with near dead roots , how do you keep it alive and cool off the medium? And when I say medium I mean the pot with the red rocks not the water in the system. It doesntmatter what a happy plant can take in this case. Back off the lights will cool off the works and an 10-00 and a bit of Epsonswill keep it alive till it recovers.
I am sure its not the water temp

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...and I didnt say it was light stress I said that the plant can't handle the amount of light it is getting

Heisengrow said:

Says who?640 watts of cobs over these since day1.plants wanna live.do you put your plants in the shade outdoors?have you ever checked the sun with a par meter.smh at some of the comments on these boards.
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Nice looking garden, as you already know a sick plant in many cases will not be able to deal with full sun and will require shade or indirect light

I'm pretty sure I pointed out the roots?

But I'm an idiot that lost his last two crops so what the hell do I know!

Okay with all of y’alls impeccable advice they are picking up. I have a water cooler now at 68 degrees. My main problem from burnt leaves was from folior feeding without lights off. On the older plants I just got scissors and trimmed off bad roots and washed rest of algae out. There is no more algae now in my rdwc system.

Oh and I’m now using hydroguard

milehightexan said:

Oh and I’m now using hydroguard

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Yeah man dont use any knock offs like dumb dumb did up there and lost 2 back to back grows.
Anything chlorine dont mix with beneficial bacteria.if you sterilize a system with bleach you have to wait at least 4 days to fill the system otherwise the bleach will kill all the hydroguard.than algae will take hold after a week.bleach wont kill all of the algae.that shit gets in your stones,rocks everywhere.especially chillers.