So my plants started geting droopy and realized that the ph went up to almost 7, when I mixed the nutes originally I added ph up could it have sucked nutrients to where the ph went up in a few days? Also only aded big fox from big bloom and guess I should have had grow big at this stage?
You definitely want to be using the Grow Big right now in hydro. That's your nitrogen base and they need it right now. I thought the Big Bloom was a pain in the ass to work with and got off FF entirely. Switched to GH and haven't looked back. Sent from my SM-G975U using Tapatalk
Sorry I had those 2 mixed up. I aded only grow big. Some calmag and maybe ph up. Is it normal for ph to go up that much? Otherwise anything I need to do to fix them other than level it back out? Also just ordered some gh I’m gona send this fox farm crap back was gona wait till I ran out, but looks like amazon will return. Thanks again!
It IS normal...for those nutrients, lol. I had EXACTLY the same problem as you. Ph was nuts. Would go to bed fine and have to drain my res in the morning because it would be a milky white soup with a ph of like 9. Thought I was dumb. Then the guy at the grow shop said FF was salty garbage, lol. He recommended FloraDuo, and I loved it immediately. Also dropped my old CalMag and switched everything to GH ASAP. I can mix and ph these nutes with my eyes closed now and know what they're gonna do. I use everything in the basic coco plan and it's worked out perfectly so far. Sent from my SM-G975U using Tapatalk
Awesome, well got it swapped out for now, going dwc as soon as I get my tent moved this weekend until then I’m in mason jars, scared me cuz I have 3 seedlings and 2 verging that I don’t wana mess up, lol. I guess I have to wait till Saturday till I get some real nutes. But yeah I’ve had issues with cloudiness the next day also drives me crazy just thought I was doing stuff wrong cuz I’m new, which I guess I am using fox farm :/
Following that feed chart would fry my plants. I recently had to back off of EC=1.0 in mid-flower because of orange leaf tips. I think you have severe over-feeding, as evidenced by those too-green, downward clawing leaves. Too much fertilizer is poison, and is partially responsible for those brown spots. DWC thrives on less than EC=1.0 Even half strength nutes can be too much. I'd back off to EC=0.6 for a few days, and see what happens. The plants should be happy and healthy looking, not sad and droopy.
Thanks! They are looking beter today But they still have lots of spots :/ and bottom sets of leaves still down on one, but top is looking beter! I keep having to lower my ph also have GH nutes will be here tomorrow
So dwc is different in which case I should keep under 1000ppm? In that case I really need to wait for my RO filter as my water is about 400ppm from a well
My plants didn't like my 190 ppm tap water, so I bought a cheap RO filter that takes it down to 15 ppm. You should include 0-100% of the well water ppm in total ppm, but how much is unclear. Most people say to ignore that ppm, but I'm not so sure that's correct. Personally I'd probably include 1/4 to 1/2 of it. If these were my plants, I'd give them about 200-250 ppm above the 400 ppm well water, for a total of about 625 ppm. Keep track of daily pH and ppm. If ppm falls, the plants are asking for more food, so increase ppm a little. If ppm rises, the plants are telling you you're giving them too much food, so decrease ppm a little. Doing this until ppm is stable might allow you to figure out how much fertilizer to use.
Thanks! I’m going to use some bottled water for now untill I get my RO, how much calmag should you add, apparently not what it asks for? Also my ph keeps going up throughout the day. Thanks again, Jay