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HELP My EC keeps climbing and I don’t know why

Dave21
Dave21started grow question 3 years ago
I’m using RDWC I’m at week 4 of flower and I will set my ec to 2.0 and ph to about 5.8-6.0 but within 3-4 my ec is climbing up to around 2.8 and I don’t know why does anyone have any ideas what it could be, any help would be appreciated. Thanks guys
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Dave21
Dave21answered grow question 3 years ago
Thanks guys that’s some good reassurances and to answer your question I’m 4 weeks into flower and I’m mixing ec at 2.0
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Aquemini
Aqueminianswered grow question 3 years ago
So it depends on your reservoir size. I used 5 gallon buckets. In 24 hours my ppm would go from 900 to 1500. But that is because how much water they were drinking. I had to add water everyday. There's a certain point your plant will drink more water then uptake nutrients unless it's in a very large reservoir. When my plants were smaller ( in veg before flowering) it was very easy to balance my 5G buckets. In flowering there drinking more, if I lower the ppm they lose color, if I don't add water everyday they get nutrient burn. You sound like your in my situation. Check out my OG Diesel Kush autoflower diary. It still came out nice even though flowering was a ppm battle
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GMSgrows
GMSgrowsanswered grow question 3 years ago
Depending if your in full veg then your ec is running to high at 2.0 ec. You want to be at around 7 to 800 ppm 1.4 to 1.6 ec for hydro and your ph should be at 5.8 for veg and 6.2 or 6.3 for flower. Your ec climbs because your locking out your roots from being able to uptake nutrients so your plant is drinking more water than up taking nutrients. So as the water is being used the nutrients are not so it makes the ec level go up as she drinks more water. Cheers
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Dave21
Dave21answered grow question 3 years ago
I mean within 3-4 days it’s climbing and 2.0 ec is including my base water ec, I’ve got hard water and it’s about 0.67 ec straight from tap
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