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Runoff PPM's are higher and Ph numbers are lower than what I've been adding when I water-

renbuds
renbudsstarted grow question 3 years ago
When I watered each of the plants with Ph balanced water only the runoffs for each plant were about 30% higher ppm than I put in on the previous watering with nutes (see numbers above). The plants look very healthy. Should I be concerned with this and if so why?
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Ezzjaybruh
Ezzjaybruhanswered grow question 3 years ago
I’d be concerned with the strength of your feeds - the EC/PPM in general. You’re hovering around 1500 ppm which is a very strong feed, especially for autoflowers. I rarely go above 1000 PPM with photos. You are starting to see some signs of lockout on a few and one has some signs of N toxicity (SD2). I’d personally do a flush with reg water and run a solid gallon or two thru the bottom of each.. cut those feeds in half going forward. Advanced is so “complex” of a line up I don’t know what to tell you to cut out of that regimen but I’d be feeding 650-800 max going forward unless there’s signs of deficiencies.
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rhodes68
rhodes68answered grow question 3 years ago
Dial back the nuets - salts are building also make sure runoff is at least 10%+ of course
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Ezzjaybruh
Ezzjaybruhanswered grow question 3 years ago
It’s normal to have salt build up tho to answer that question. But you don’t wanna have much over your normal PPM/EC in.. that’s why watering to run off every time is a good idea. The water goes and saturates the soil, making those extra dried up salts soluble again.. so you water extra til run off to move some of those excess lingering salts out of your medium. It’s even trickier with soil tho, one reason of many I prefer soilless substrates
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