Cant say sadly. There is alot of watts in here! This phase has 12 rooms just like it and there are 4 phases in the building.
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@420Newbie420 this is my running journal. You are welcome to join the convo, show off your plants ask questionsā¦whatever is clever grow bro!
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Nice Iāll do that
Is this a potassium deficiency or whatās wrong with my girl:( giving ro water with calmag as buffer to ppm of 150 to 200 ph to 6.8 because my runoff last week was low (5.5) that brought it to runoff of 6.0 and every other week I add silica (yes I add it first) itās growing in fox farm happy frog and fox farm ocean forest (2 to 1) ratio and Iām using the fox farm trio nutrient line could this be from overwatering I gave it about 1.2 gal of water last week and itās due for a light feeding in my book but I donāt want to mess it up as itās my first grow anyways any info would help ā¦ the leafs feel like there leathery and dry and have slight chlorosis in the veins my humidity stays set at 60 and temp and 76 with inkbird and I have vents and fan so idk what I am doing wrong I feel like itās my ro water like Iām not getting something calcium, magnesium, potassium, I have no clue I give it calmag with every watering
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Hey yaāll need a technician? lol man thatās awesome very impressive do you take care of those?
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Increase to 300-350ppm. 150-200 is not stable enough to hold its own ph so the medium isnt being adjusted when you water, And when using FF start phinging everything at 6.8 alll the time.
FF soil combined with FF nutes will require you to follow the flushing schedule, in my experience. Between weeks 4 and 5, 7 and 8, and 10 and 11. Flushing is simple but can be time consuming. You will want to pour 3 times the volume of your pot in ph stable water. (5gal pot =15 gal water) I suggest using dechlorinated tap water, phād to 6.8. Check runoff every 3 or 4 gallons till runoff comes into ph range. 6.4-6.7ph. Once that is achieved you will wait 10-15 mins for all the water to drip out Then you will add in a full feed phād to 6.5-6.8ph.
Overwatering isnt a singular action. It is repeatedly watering before the soil is dry. You could pour 500 gallons of liquid through your soil in a single watering and that would be fine. But if you watered even 1 cup the next day you would be overwatering. I think your issue is your low ph causing nutrient uptake issues. Following the above advice about increasing the tds calmag on water days and reset the ph and nutrient ratios of your soil by flushing as described above.
The best way to tell when its time to feed is to monitor your runoff tds/ppm. Once runoff dips below 1000ppm its time for a feed. Your plant is big enough for 3/4 to full feeds. Try and keep the feed ppm around 800-1200. With RO this is easy.
Nobody does right?! You would learn more from failure then success but Ill do my best to make sure you dont fail.
This all make sense? Feel free to ask for clarity or more questions should you have em.
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Those and 11 more rooms just like it.
The panormaic shot doesnt display well but its the only way I could get the whole room in the shot
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Yes it makes a lot of sense Iāve done tones of research Iām just trying to get a better grasp on it all so do u suggest watering in at 7.0 until 10% runoff also I cannot use tap because of chloramines I am scheduled to water them at midnight (when lights turn on) I know my runoff was at like 1200 so I donāt think I need to feed
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Yes, 6.8-7 until things start coming up in your runoff. I also suggest tracking it so you can keep an eye on it.
You arent buying the ro water by the gallon are you?
Eeeeesh. Why they gotta put all this crap in our water FFS! Zero filters are supposed to clean that stuff out. There are also fishtank dechlorinators that work. A little goes a long way, I used like a 10th of a mililiter for 5 gallonsā¦something like thatā¦
Naw just water and calmag
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Well I mean it is being bought from one of those primo water dispensers either the 5 gal water jugs my family buys a lot of them so I just use that ā¦ I was going to purchase a tallboy hydrologic water system but Iām low on the funds for one atm also did a watering on all the plants with ro water and calmag ppm to 300 and ph 7.0 used a little over a gallon per plant and they where last watered a week ago Iāll keep you all updated ā¦ also does that dechlorinator you showed me get ride of chloramines and chlorine because I know you can get rid of chlorine by just letting it sit out in open air and evaporate but chloramines cannot and I thought usually had to be filtered ā¦ honestly I feel like the ro water is def my problem causing some sorta lockout and if I can switch to tap without any problems Iād do that just donāt wanna risk it and kill one lol 
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Thats how I do it too. Its like 1.50 a gallon for distilled or drinking when you buy by the gallon. Be surprised how many people dont know about the filling stations.
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RO isnt the problem, the amount of calmag you have been using is. Get that tds up to 350 and things will change.
I use RO, have for 2 years or so now.
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So I upped my Calimag to 300 and I upped my pH to 7.3 to try to boost the pH at the root zone after watering in with like a gallon and a half of water my pH is 5.4 runoff and ppm is 960 last watering I used pH of 6.8 and it was coming out 5.5 now itās coming out 5.4 my other two plants are at 5.7. The only reason I think that theyāre not doing as bad as because theyāre smaller Iām worried about the pH at the root zone being so low. How can I make that go up? Iām watering in at 7.3.
This was with feed water too, because initially it was saying the runoff ppm was only 700 something and I was due for a feeding
Haha that is awesome growmie! I bet you enjoy going to work every day!
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Flush your soil as described above. Also be sure to disacard the first little bit of runoff and test the last of it, sometimes the first bit can skew the reading. Also check the calibration of your ph meter.
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Okay so Iām going to do a flush of ro water ppm to 300with calmag and ph of 7.0 ā¦ when I gave them feed water the tops of the plants are smelling like sulfur now (probably because the low ph) , so after I flush Iāll give it a feeding
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After flushing do you let plants dry out then water with feed water or do you give feed water right after flushing ?
@420Newbie420 do you have the Fox Farms Sledgehammer? It is their flushing agent meant specifically for their line and it works well. With Fox Farms Soil and Nutes, I highly recommend using it for your flush. Plain water doesnāt break down the salts/solids left behind the way that a flushing agent does.
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Allow flush water to stop dripping, 10-15 mins then apply feed. Slower you pour, the more nute solution will remain in the soil.
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