Wanted to wait for good accurate readings.
She already looks happier, her leaves are starting to perk up?
Ph of runoff: 6.75
Ppm: 535… but im noticing the x10 isnt there any longer?
Wanted to wait for good accurate readings.
She already looks happier, her leaves are starting to perk up?
Ph of runoff: 6.75
Ppm: 535… but im noticing the x10 isnt there any longer?
Okay this is good. Look at your feed chart. You’re feeding in the vegetation stage.
They’re calling for 2/3 teaspoon of your veg nutrients per gallon. Mix up one gallon with 3/4 of that 2/3 teaspoon and ph the water to 6.5 and feed it to your girl.
Catch the runoff documented and come back here and tell me what it is
Perfect. Do you have Epson salt?
We do.
This is the last thing you need to do and you are good to go. I agree with @Growdoc you’re showing signs of magnesium deficiency. We’ve got all the nastiness out and you’re right where you should be.
I promise this is the last thing you need to do and your plant will be fixed.
2.) slowly start adding little pinches of Epsom salt to the water shaking well until your ppms come up to 470 ppm
3.) now add a full strength nutrient (2/3 tab) to the mix shake well
4.) pH the water to 6.5 and slowly pour it through then document the runoff numbers and post it
I promise you this will have fixed your plant. You should be back on par with everything. This last feed with the Epsom salt will take care of all your deficiencies as well
Just make sure the Epsom salt doesn’t have any smell good sents added to it
When you have the Epsom salt the nutrients and your water pH to 6.5 before you feed the plant this mix shake the gallon well and measure the ppm of the entire feed mix and document it (going in) then proceed to feeding your plant and document the runoff (coming out)
She was starting to look real good after she was flushed, the leaves were perking back up - but after that (first) round of nutrients she’s looking really droopy again
Did everything you suggested,
Ppm prior to feed: 334
Ppm of runoff: 376
Ph of runoff: 6.67
Shes looking pretty sad
I believe you have an issue with that ppm pin.
Your water is…
270ppm
You added Epsom salt
200ppm
You added 2/3 teaspoon of nutrients
That should be at least 400 PPM
Total 870ppm
You say it was 334ppm
See my point!
Your runoff should have been somewhere between 700 and 800 ppm on this feed.
As far as the drooping this goes that’s normal she’ll get better tomorrow a couple hours after the lights come on. You did a lot of flushing.
Do me a favor. Measure your tap water again
Yeah that’s what was taking us so long!
We did the epsom/nut mix, checked the numbers and they were SO off we gave it a second go, same numbers.
We’re going to go ahead and order a new pen, this one is obviously trash.
This is a much better pen. this is what I use it’s very good very accurate
Ppm of tap water: 270
Okay good so then you started adding Epsom salt until it read 470 ppms correct?
Just tap water in Epsom salt is over 470ppm without even adding the nutrients (what you added the nutrients) should have been 500 more PPM
This leads me to believe that your runoff before that was actually wrong.
This is not good you could be right back into the same boat that you were in when you started.
This is what I suggest you do.
Order that pen. It should take your plant about 3 days to dry out.
This gives you about 3 days to get that pen from Amazon.
If you had to guess. How much epsom salt did you put in there?
1/4 teaspoon
1/3 teaspoon
1/2 teaspoon
A full teaspoon?
Ect ect
I am with her.
I agree and appreciate your commitment @Lostgirl
Your ppm meter is definitely No Good and you definitely need to order another one before you feed this girl again.
However, if you are 100% sure that you put in that gallon of water
Tap water
3/4 tsp or less epon salt
2/3 tsp of veg nutrients into your 1 gallon of water on your last feed
Then you’re going to be okay.
Hey thank you for all you help yesterday!
I got locked out of the forum last night before getting a chance to thank you.
I super appreciate you, shes looking muuuuch better today.
No problem. You have a very long way to go. I agree it looks much better today. I believe you got lucky that what we did last night was by measurement and not by numbers. If we went by numbers it could have been disastrous due to your faulty PPM meter. (Hopefully you ordered that)
Watering/feeding
When to water your plant is extremely important. Typically from a small plant like yours that was watered to run off in a 3 gallon pot will normally take approximately 2-3 days to dry before watering again.
Last night when you put your waterlogged plant back into the tent you should have noticed the weight of the pot. I know it’s time to water when that weight changes from the weight of a gallon of milk to the weight of slightly over a loaf of bread
This allows the appropriate amount of dry time as your plant needs to take up oxygen and that’s done when the plant is semi moist to dry and not saturated.
Feeding & Runoff
Since you are in the vegetation stage with an autoflower you want to try to keep your runoff ppm’s around 800 PPM and your pH runoff should be 6.5
Environment
Your environment is just as important if not more important than any other aspect of growling your auto flower. You want to keep your light at the proper distance and percentage. Your relative humidity and temperature in the vegetation stage should be 50% relative humidity and 75° keeping good air circulation with a floor fan and a pole fan is a must.
Documenting
Keeping a documentation of daily notes is a must as it helps you see where you they have went wrong with your plant and what you did. When you mix your feeds you should document the ppms after mixing and then document the runoff as well so you have a record of your plants intake and outtake. I normally print a calendar and just fill in notes and numbers when applicable.
Note
The reason we utilize pH and PPM numbers so religiously is because that is our communication line with a plant. The numbers tell you when to feed and how much to feed.
These are the things that you want to master to move forward with your current grow and/or future grows. Keeping all your posts of questions etc on this page you create more of a documentary that’s an excellent resource to fall back on.