MSNL: Acapulco Gold Feminized, Panama Red
• Method: Top Soil - Fox Farms Strawberry Fields
• Soil brand and type: Fox Farms Strawberry Fields
• Vessels: 10 Gallon nursery grade plastic buckets
• PH of Water, Solution, 6.5,
• PPM/TDS or EC of nutrient solution if applicable
• Indoor or Outdoor: Indoor
• Light system 2 King LED 2000W – 18 hour on, 6 off
• Temps; Day, Night: precisely: trying to keep temp 78-82 Day, 68-70 Night
• Humidity; Day, Night approximately 50% - 60%
• Ventilation system; no
• AC, Humidifier: cheap unit I run when humidity drops below 40%
Run Off
Acapulco Gold Plant 1 PH: 6.23, PPMs: 1360
Acapulco Gold Plant 2 PH: 6.59, PPMs: 598
Panama Red Plant 3 PH: 6.14, PPMs: 1280
Panama Red Plant 4 PH: 6.69, PPMs: 668
What I’ve stated above doesn’t quite say it all. This is my third grow and I wanted to try an organic grow with FF Strawberry Fields and Coast Of Maine plant food and then this started happening. I freaked out and gave them 1300 PPMs of FF big bloom, grow big, and tiger bloom. (I scratched the organic thing) A day later I remembered that if the PH isn’t right it doesn’t matter whats in the soil so after the weekend I cleaned my drip pans and gave them a light flushing to generate the PH/PPM readings above.
Can anyone help me figure this one out, and is true flushing watering continuously until
PH in = 6.50 = PH out
It looks like I may have more than one issue going on.
All 4 plants germinated and were planted on the same day.
They’ve always received water at 6.5
Last Friday was the only and first time they’ve ever received synthetic fertilizer.
The dry organic nutrients will take several days to be readily available for uptake add that to the FF trio feed and you have an overload in my opinion. The water you added for the little run off wasn’t enough for a realistic run off reading and as those organic nutrients become more available these numbers will be really high. Personally I would do a reset. Flush the plants with straight H2O down to around 300-40” PPMs and follow up with a feeding of the FF trio at 1000 PPMs and a PH of 6.5. It’s going to take 3 times the vessel size and go slow with the flush so the water doesn’t puddle up on top or run over the sides
Correct, typically flushing is used to reset PH but I recommended the flush due to the amount of nutrients you added and the organic top dressing ones continuously feeding. You could try a a water only feed to liberal run off, let a good bit run out the bottom then catch a sample and test. The last of the run off would come from the root zone versus the bottom of the pot
