Raise your hand if you almost killed your plant overnight, due to a rookie mistake🙋♂️🏼 I cannot tell you how terrified I was when I opened my tent to see this extreme leaf dropping. I was in shock for about a minute before I realized I needed to act fast. The first thing that came to mind was doing a big flush using 5 mL per gallon of FloraKleen. I went into shock a second time after testing the first round of soil runoff😩 pH was perfect, which I was thankful for, but kind of knew that wasn’t the problem because I have always payed super close attention to that. But, once I placed my TDS meter in the runoff, the problem was clear. PPM was around 2,800 and EC was over 3,000🙅♂️🏼 So, how did I let this happen? Clearly the salt build up in the root zone was probably 90% of the problem. While doing months and months of research before starting to grow, I just skimmed by on research involving testing your run off, BIG MISTAKE, one I WONT be making again. I will most likely be switching to distilled water from now on. But let’s get back to my solution for this. I knew it clearly was not a deficiency, temperature problem or nutrient burn. I came to the conclusion the root zone EC had to be way off, causing the plant to lack the ability to absorb water properly, becoming dehydrated. I ran about 3 or 4 gallons of clean water with FloraKleen through her and continued testing after every gallon. I finally got her room zone PPM down to about 400 and her EC below 900. She seemed to start recovering almost immediately! A few hours later I could tell she was stressed, but doing better. This morning she looks almost back to normal😁🌱 I’m hoping this does not effect my yield, but if it does, it’s a learning experience. It reminds me that we can do hours and hours and hours of research, but we will never be above Mother Nature🌞
(The pictures shown are the only ones I was able to grab quickly while I was panicking. As you can see my grow room looked like an operating room by the time I was done😂)
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