Pinky

11/21 - I'm not understanding why the new growth is clawing. Pinky is having problems and I am stumped... if this case was presented on the questions page, I would say it's gotten too much nitrogen and/or the pH is off... I just changed out her reservoir so I know she doesn't have excess nitrogen but I've also been having difficulties getting/keeping the pH down but I'll keep trying - I want to get it down to 5.8-5.9 ... I've added some H2O2 to her reservoir this morning as I'm thinking there's a bit of a problem with the roots - they're not brilliantly white ... If I can't get a handle on this, I think I'll probably just set her in a plain water bucket for a full day and let her get whatever is wrong out of her system... (I don't know how else to "flush" in a DWC set up!) So it's been a long day with this lady... I ended up having to reduce the EC back down as she was only getting worse... and the pH wouldn't be tamed although I think (I hope) I've finally done it... Hate my tap water.... takes a minimum of 100 drops of pH-Down to get 3.5 gallons down to about 6.0pH! Ugh.... I've adjusted the nutes I reported for this week to reflect the new amounts... I think she was just getting far too much nitrogen - far too much of everything! I'll take her a little more slowly from here on out. :-D 11/22 - Still sorting her problem of nitrogen toxicity... last night, I cut her nute solution to almost nothing and am getting a handle on the pH although that's still stubbornly sitting at 6.2 - which, in the grand scheme of things, isn't terrible ... She's a sensitive little one! All I want to see is her leaves starting to uncurl... The EC was at 0.5 this morning so I'll get it back down to 0.4... C'mon, Pinky - help me out! One of my concerns if the EC keeps rising is that she may be leaching nutes into the water... and if she's doing that, I'm ALL befuddled... sigh. 11/23 - I don't know what to do for this girl. The clawing is definitely too much nitrogen but I've whacked back the EC to almost nothing and now I fear she's leaching nutes into the water as the pH is rising.... EC sits at 0.4 and pH at 6.5 (EC stable, pH is up from 6.2). I just don't know what to do here. So what I've ended up doing was another bucket change. This time, I completely eliminated the GH Micro (it's NPK is 5-0-1 which is VERY heavy on nitrogen) and went with a concoction of Grow, Bloom, Diamond Nectar and Terpinator so that the end NPK is 2-6-14 and her EC is 0.6. Cross your fingers.... I'm hoping she likes it and will respond well. If not... well.... if not.... hmmmm... don't have an answer. 11/24 - so her leaves are not as clawed as before which is good... and I'm beginning to wonder if it actually WAS/IS a nitrogen toxicity since the tips are not dry and burned and neither are the stems red... which I would have expected to see. She's growing a mile a minute (2 inches in the last 3 days) and is, except for those silly leaves, looking terribly healthy and strong. AND she's in pre-flower already... So, since the leaves are starting to un-claw, I've decided I'm just not going to worry about her too much! :-D I think she'll be fine... Well, I just went and looked at the photo I took of her today - I guess those stupid leaves really are still clawing madly... but I'm not going to worry. I'm just not. At least not much. I've adjusted the nute information for this week to reflect what I ended up doing for her yesterday... since that's the solution she'll be sitting in for the rest of this week. 11/26 - Ok. Pinky is weird. Just plain weird and I'm just going to have to accept her as she is (she'll actually fit right in!). I changed out her bucket 3 or 4 days ago and she's clawing just as much as before - no change whatsoever. Tips still aren't showing any sign of nute burn, she's growing incredibly fast, the outer 1/4 of her leaves have almost a bluish hue to them.. which might be her genetics... but she just doesn't seem to be bothered by that clawing - at least not any recognizable complaining... so. SO. She is who she is and I'm going to completely ignore everything about those damned leaves... and concentrate on all the pre-flower little pistils coming out! YAY!