1st grow with new Hydroponics system

@Ultraviolet ty you're a wealth of info! 🙂

My roots look great, they're pure white. I'm currently @ 825ppm and this morning they looked better. These are my parameters: Temp: 75° RH: 65% Lights: two SF7000 @ 100% and 27 inches

So it's Apr 6th and my plants are doing alot better. I had to up the nutes, that's what was the problem. Currently we're at 1850 ppm. They were under nourished. My cal/mag this week was upped to 7.5mL/gal and I went full on with grow, micro and bloom, 10mL, 10mL and 5mL respectively. I wasn't frying my plants, they actually needed more food! Lesson learned, listen to your plants.

OK so two days ago (3/18) I upped my nutes to 1300ppm, not good, bc I started getting nute burn. It stayed like that til yesterday when I dropped the ppm to 1000 (3/19/22) and now they're starting to show some vigorous growing.

OK so it's 2 days since I did my flush and added nuts. And I'm happy the report that they're doing alot better, so I decided to top my girls. Two of them I wasn't able to top yet bc they're still too small...

So I'm happy to say the flush and new nuts is what my girls needed. They were definitely underfed and needed a higher ppm concentration. Currently I'm at 880ppm.

Thanks guys for your help. I'm currently flushing them for 24 hours then I'll start fresh. I'm using RO/DI water. First I plan on adding cal/mag till my ppm is around 150-200, then add the other nuts to bring me to around 550 ppm. Does that sound right?

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I personally think you need to up your base nutrients there amigo. I’d be running like 2 ml/gallon of each of the flora trio, and maybe tone down the diamond nectar and other one. Depending on water source maybe some cal mag supplement. But overall the .6 ml per gallon is not enough this far in growth. I use flora trio with DWC. Oh and yes, once those roots are out the cup or rockwool, give it a few inches between of air. Good luck!

How far bellow the bottom of the net pot was the water line ? You want it a good 2-3 inches to just spit up water from the air stones to tickle the roots down into the water. This slow veg maybe makes me think the water was touching the bottom of the net pots ? Just curious friend. I grew in hydro under-current built my own systems for 3 years before going back to soil & the veg rate on them is a million times faster than soil they should be giant with that long of veg. Would you be alright with me offering some pointers? So cannabis plants LOVE heat and humidity. It is the buds that hate it. In veg we want to take advantage of this fact to help our plants grow along much quicker and more vigorously. In veg we can look for temps of 79-84 MAX with lights on & no more than 9 degrees less with lights off. If we allow for too much temperature swing between lights on and lights off while the plant is still growing vertically up to day 20 of flower, We will cause the plant to stretch ALOT which we do not want. So in veg & early flower, Keeping our temperature gaps nice and close between lights on and off is key. Utilizing humidity in our rooms during veg will also help out a lot with more rapid growth but we must introduce it properly. In our rooms we have our temperature and humidity set-points, But when we combine those 2 it forms a third set-point which is the most important & that is called VPD, Vapor pressure deficit. I strongly recommend every new grower or old grower who has not learned it yet, To study and understand it & implement it into your room, Logging your numbers daily. https://cerescann.com/importance-of-measuring-vpd/ For soil, We generally want to go for a PH of 6.1. Your PH is GREAT for hydro, So kudos on that. This website does a GREAT job of illustrating it with a nice graph & very good detailed explanation for soil. https://autoflowerseedshop.com/cannabis-ph-chart-guide/ As we briefly touched on before, During veg & early flower we want our temperature gap's nice and tight to avoid stretch. Why exactly our plants stretch in response to this is a genetic trigger being activated by the environmental stress essentially telling the plant the end of the season is closer than it really is. In veg & early flower the plant is still in its first stage of development which is to grow up wide and tall so when it produces seed, It can cast them out nicely. Remember, Whether we are growing our plants for seed or bud their genetic responses do not change as they gh sidedo not know any different. Once the plant has finished that first stage of growth by weeks 4-6 of flower with most strains, It is by day 20 of flower. Autoflowers you have to watch for it, But once the plant has finished this goal its new mission is to focus 100% on producing nice big flower clusters & to get very sticky so it can attract pollen to it successfully. So once that vertical growth is finished, We actually now want to begin to expose our plants to larger temperature swings between lights on and lights off. This will help activate that genetic response and allow us to draw out the most potential from the strain utilizing the plants genetic triggers to environmental stresses at the right times. We can also take this a step further with doing light deprivation in the last 2 weeks using less light to simulate cloud cover. Very cold feed temps on the last flush is very good too. If you do not have them already, Get yourself a good PAR meter & thermal laser temp gun to monitor your plant top temperatures & optimize how much light your plants are getting. Since you are right at the start of the journey, I recommend hoping over to our youtube and checking out our VERY detailed tutorial series. The first 6 episodes are out right now covering all the fundamentals & first 4 weeks of plant life care. Episode 7 will be out shortly so you got time to subscribe & get caught up, I look forward to seeing you over there friend! Also we have a tutorial series grow diary that is also part of the whole package. Our youtube is linked off of our main grow diaries profile! Happy growing friend!

So alot of the leaves have turned yellow and trichomes have started turning amber.

OK here's today's update, 3/9/22. They are all doing great, they're all standing proud now! I think they needed to dry out a little, more light and needed the extra nuts.