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I'm not sure what happened but after I did the water change I started to get bacteria smell and drooping. I washed the roots with ph'd water and washed the DWC bucket out. I also added another air pump with more stones and unhooked the bubbler. Seemed like the bubbler was letting the water build up bacteria on the clay and the room was getting a bit hotter than I want so I added a thermostat controller that manages heater and fans pulling cooler air from inside the house.
I added some pictures from my home automation setup i use to monitor and manage my grow room with. I have automation that controls the lighting, air pumps, heating, cooling, topping off the reservoir, etc.
This thing nearly doubled in size. How's it looking? Thoughts on nutrients? It sucked down 1.5gal of water over 4 days. Hope its done stretching so it's not taking so much water.
What do you all think is it looking about right for my first DWC grow with an Auto? I did a lot of research but any advice is welcome. I've only grown one other time and it was with soil. Ideas on nutrients?
Heya!
Looking awesome so far, very healthy! I’d keep doing what you’re doing, feed ppm wise looks good. Keep it up and look forward to an awesome harvest!
Cheers
The flowers are starting to fill in. The bucket had a slight sent to it so I opted to run a two hour flush with florakleen ph'd. I then added fresh nutrients for the week. I also upped the hydroguard to 2.5 ml/gal. Thoughts on the 2hr flush? Add some calmag and adjusted the light. Did more LST to, it was getting bit to humid. Looks like its getting fatter and fatter.
The bucket had a slight sent to it at change this week, so I opted to run a two hour flush with florakleen ph'd. PPM was also high at 1720 when I checked the old nutrients. I removed the flush solution and then added fresh nutrients for the week. Thoughts on the mid grow flush?
Flushing is vert stressful for a plant definitely try to avoid it. You should run hydroguard as a preventative I would if I run dec it's a beneficial bacteria for root rot. Also supposed to help roots intake nutrients.
Last res change I saw some yellow/brown spots on the fan leaves up where the main cola was getting too close to the light. Is this a calmag deficiency or light too close? I moved the light up to the top of my tent with zip ties and got back several needed inches. See pics.
Looks more like calmag but if its starting at the bottom leaves then you should consider a lack of potassium, when its at the upper section that's when its calmag.
Stay lit growmie, doesnt look like light burn.
Seemed like the mag issue got better after bumping it up but the.dameage was done. Hope it didn't impact the buds. You can see it in some of the sugar leaves.
This main cola is huge 11x3 so far! Have issue with ppm jumping up to 1750 so I just added ph'd water to get it back down. Thoughts on why its jumping so high? How much longer you think?
stopping with fertilizing altogether to fight a toxicity may cause your plant unnecessary stress, if you have a toxicity from 1 or 2 nutrients that doesn't mean the rest are abundant as well!
Try pinpointing the exact issue of what causing that stress to your plants and adjust fertilizing accordingly. For example if there's Nitrogen toxicity instead of not fertilizing just reduce the Nitrogen based fertilizer.
in your case I'd say your plant is suffering from some light/radiation stress and Phosphorus (P) toxicity - leaves clawing and folding upwards, leaves develop irregular yellow spots and blotching.
Increase the distance between the lamp and plant by about 7.5-10cm/3-4inches, and decrease your bloom fertilizer by about 30-50% if problem persists reduce it by another 10-20% each week until spreading stops completely.
Hope this helps! Good luck and happy growing :)
dusterp
