Flora flex 6" pots

@lrfowler ,
Welcome back. Dude, those plants don’t look good. I was thinking about you the other day.
The Jacks measurement is what the lable says to do. Let’s see if we can figure this out.

What is your:
ppm
Solution temperature
Solution pH
How often are you changing solution
When did you last change solution
Air temperature

do you add anything else to the solution other than Jacks?
How long ago did you plant the clones?

 

One more thing. Yes 24/7 nutrient flow is ok. I’ve done 24/7 flow in my recirculating system. You’ve seen my system and plants.
Are you in veg still?

 

Something is wrong for sure. When I run the Jacks veg with the same extras my solution is about 500ppm. Yours is way too high. If the pH is way off it’s a mess.
Can you get more clones?
If you want to save these clones you must ASAP:
1. Dump your solution
2. Flush each plant with 1/2 gal H2O@6.2pH
3. Rinse your reservoir
4. Mix new nutrient 25gm per 10gal H2O
5. Add:
20 ml Rhizo Blast
10 ml Pure Blend Tea
40 ml Slica Blast
20 ml Hydrogaurd
20 gm Epson Salt
Maintain a pH 5.8-6.2 24/7
Raise solution temp to 70-75F

on the plants. If you can’t replace them immediately then you need to perform some surgery. Pull the few dead ones that I see. On the green ones, carefully cut every dead leaf and stem off and throw in trash. Conserve the green leaves even if they are curling. If we get some new growth we know they want to be saved.
It would be better to get new clones, but with time and patience along with following some directions you should be able to make these recover.
What do you think?

 

3 years ago this plant wilted in a couple hours after setting it into its new pot. It got damaged roots cause I didn’t moisten the pellets before setting the plant in. It was a few minutes before the nutrient flow was turned on.

it recovered in a few days.

yours may recover too.

 

It took about 10 days for the plant to look good and show new growth at the tips.

are you going to try to save these plants or get new ones?

pH adjustment system:
https://milwaukeeinstruments.com/ph-controller/

Stay in touch, it broke my heart when I saw your plants in such bad shape. Reach out before it gets so bad.
You and I have had many conversations trying to improve your grow. Your nutrient manifold could be improved, let’s get the plants healthy and then work on improving your plumbing.

you mentioned “old age” I’m 66, how old are you?

 

Post a couple of pics of the plumbing from pump/reservoir to the plants.
what are you doing to keep the solution in the reservoir replenished with fresh water. As there is evaporation the ppm of the solution goes up. If water is not replace regularly and the level in the reservoir goes down you may end up with a toxic dose for your plants. I use a float valve plumbed to a separate tank of fresh water. As minute amounts of water is transpired by the plants and surface evaporation the float valve activates allow the correct level to be maintained in the reservoir. I’m in the 6th week of bloom with 2 plants, consuming 4 gallons a day. I have a 10 gallon nutrient reservoir just like you.

 

I think that I understand. As the first reservoir lowers the volume is replaced with nutrient from the second reservoir? If that is true then the ppm raises faster than the plant can use the individual elements in the nutrient solution.
Ideally you should have the first reservoir with nutrient. The plants use water faster than the individual elements, therefore we should focus on replacing evaporation and transpiration with fresh water.
During the week the ppm will slowly go down because the plants are using nutrients and water is replaced, not full strength nutrient solution. At the end of 7 days I recommend replacing the nutrient solution with NEW nutrient solution. If you focus in this method I believe we can prevent the train wreck you are experiencing now.

 

Think of this:
The plants consume the nutrients.
The water passes through the plants and gases off via transpiration and there will be surface evaporation too.
This happens at different rates. If everything stays the same, unchanged, then all will be in balance. The water portion of the equation changes the most, throwing off the nutrient concentration. Replacing consumed water with water helps keep the balance and maintain a concentration range that will not become toxic.

 

Try to copy from your photo library then paste into the post. Sometimes works.
Might need to change the size of photo, then paste into the post.
Sometimes changing the size will allow the upload file button to work.

 

Have you decided to get new plants? Or are you try to save these?