I need some help in determining what is my girls issues. I am certain it is a bunch of issues. Background for some reason I thought I could mix compost, fresh Fox farm and previous plants Fox farm or Coco Loco soil. Now I am not sure which is which. Let’s make it worst… I recently thought it would be good to mix in a little bit of coco coir. Wild child, I know. Now I would like to save the girls so they can produce quality.
Take look at the pics. One has a white salt stain on the side. So I wonder is that an issue too.
Everything your seeing is pH related due to mixing many different medias. Coco and soil do not have the same requirements as to watering frequency or pH when feeding. Soil is 6.2-6.8 and Coco is 5.2-5.8. Soil needs a flood to drought watering method and Coco needs frequent fertigation and frequency depends on container size and age of plant and how much they are drinking.
Do you know your pH in and out and the ppm’s in the media?
If using synthetic nutes, it is common to see the salt build up on the outside of a cloth pot.
Thank you for replying.
PH in & out has been nearly the same. In the very beginning I held back on nutes becuz of the magical mix. Then slowly introduced nutes. I feed water or nutes every 3/4 days, watered with balanced water. I actually think the ph is low. But they look like nutes is the issue. I was thinking I need to flush. I have Girl Scout cookies (auto) going too and that one is doing well. I want to drop a net over Girl Scout but the other 3 not sure they would like that at all.
4/20 all gals did get nutes. AK47 - PH 5.82, OG -PH5.43, Melonade - Ph 5.56, & Girl Scout PH 5.69
When pH is low and she gets locked out it is nute related but driven by the low pH. You fix your pH and I bet they will all turn around.
Do you know your ppm’s out? That will tell you if she is locked out. If your ppm’s were high and I am just throwing a number out there like 2000 or above, she is locked.
I do not know the ppm’s. so it is your recommendation to get PH up. and do not flush cuz nothing to flush I guess. Should I feed them balance water only at a high PH and see. Or should I do Nutes at a higher ph to get them up?
It is hard to answer when these targets tell you the answer and you do not know them. Without this info, and based on your average 5.7 pH on all your babies, I would feed 1/2 strength and pH your solution after mixing up the nutes to 7.6 and water slowly until you get about 15-20% run off and stop. The next time you water or feed, get the same run off and check your pH.
Over the weekend I began to flush with balanced water.
AK47 - after 3 gallons of water - run off PH 6.84 and PPM 842
I think my PH meter broke cuz it always reads 6.86, tried to calibrate it and still not getting accurate reads.
Melonade run off after 5 gallon flush PPM 1321 ph 9.21 after 4 gallons ph 7.04 PPM 1093, this is where I believe the meter was false.
OG kush runoff PH8.25 PPM 3318 after 3 gallons
They seem to be fine right now. OG Kush & Girl Scout cookies do not seem to like the light turned all the way up. The leaves are curling slightly (taco) so I raised the light and turned it down, Where AK47 and Melonade prefer the light
