I do have a chiller, the pics of my monitors say 67°. I wouldn’t lie about anything here, I’m trying to save my girls! I’m also using 2 1000watt hid lights with a bestva 3000 led in the middle of them.
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I have not done that with florakleen…I guess I’ve been too worried about the deficiencies to not give them nutes for a cpl days.
I wasn’t trying to imply you were. Sorry. I keep coming back to flushing for 2 days with FloraKleen. Let the system stabilize with no external inputs. After this, start adding notes until you get to the ec you want (start low, you can go up quickly) and then start messing with pH if needed.
Also, lights on 24 hours but you’re flowering and vegging?
Maybe I should mention they are vegging in their bloom room right now, that’s why theres 1 metal halidecand 1 hps and why they’re so far away from them. When they’re in veg all the grow chambers go the same way, in bloom I put 3 each way to spread it out more. I moved them because they were getting too big in the veg room and I wanted to let them fill out for a little longer with the added space in the bloom room and also i wanted to switch reservoirs and chillers. I used a different reservoir and chiller, both cleaned immaculately because this ph issue had already been going on.
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Sorry, I see how that sounded so I edited it. I dont want to flower them until they’re happy (and have some alternating nodes) I’m just vegging with lights on 24/7 right now, I can only veg in the bloom room right now because it’s my 1st run and they’re the only thing in the room until the next batch is ready.
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Do you think it would make any difference if I use ro water or tap water ran through a carbon filter with the florakleen for a cpl days?
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I use detroit city water. Comes out of tap at 7.2 or so.
I set in 5 gal pails and bubble it 30 min each pail to get chlorine out. Then ph to 6.0 add nutes and then pour in system. After nutes it’s at 5.8-5.9
Any time I have filled system before ph or adding nutes I have had ph swings so I always pre mix before adding to system.
My system is rdwc
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I read up and found on Blue Lab’s site
“Accurate pH readings in solutions with a ppm (500 Scale) of less than 250ppm [0.5 EC] can be challenging to obtain, and require the pH probe to be extremely well maintained and in excellent condition.”
Wont change my life but I’m glad I understand how the readings are actually taken and why low PPM is an issue.
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That’s what I’d do. Plants are far enough along that a few days of low TDS won’t harm them.
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