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Budha420
Budha420started grow question 3 years ago
Checked my #1 n #2 plant runoff. Got ph 4.4 and ec 3.0 t worst. Plants seem to do ok tho🤔 any ideas what to do and how could they b ok on that high ppm and low ph
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gottagrowsometime
gottagrowsometimeanswered grow question 3 years ago
How is your PH getting that low. If it's from the run-off then it's simple. That isn't a true reading. If you aren't making a mix then say add too much of one nute over another, say 100ml of 1 300ml of another well, the PH of that 300ml will effect the PH/PPM of the other reading, only real results that you can count on from run-off if is when being applied they are all mixed and after that pour to the tests. And I'd flush your sub after a few days of feeds to get the salts out and avoid nute lockout. If you read my PPM for my zkittlez hydro it was 8500 and I thought that had to be wrong, but my friends much better PPM gave 8550. And no way was I giving them that the highest was 1400 it was a thing of me not changing the run-off for over 2 weeks and roots were drinking from the plate but clearly there was nute lockout and was only taking up mostly water, I'm putting this down to some advice I got to add a higher PPM and I broke my routine of just adding my mix and too much of 2 nutes locked out my whole mix, I just caught it in time. As my plant was starting to get very light green and starting showing slight signs of 'the claw"
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m0use
m0useanswered grow question 3 years ago
2nd part, the flashclean product is to help remove salt buildup, so maybe... still I'd give them some PH water only and get them numbers stable.
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m0use
m0useanswered grow question 3 years ago
That's a lot of build up, and ec of 3.0 is 3x times to much for most autos. I would guess that your not watering till enough runoff is happening or using to strong of nutrients in the first place. Your Diary is saying your going in at 1.8EC and 5.9PH I would aim for a PH of 5.8-5.9 in veg and slowly bump that upto 6.2-6.3 in flower. I would also aim to have an EC of around .8-1.2 max in autos. This feeding guidelines is a great reference but its not 100% perfect, you will need to adjust according to your plants needs. https://www.autoflower.net/forums/threads/med-man-method-feeding-chart-ppm-ec.47856/ Might want to flush them and calibrate your meters to confirm the readings are correct. Then get them back to a stable baseline before some more long term damage starts happening. Best Of Luck!
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ojetepelon
ojetepelonanswered grow question 3 years ago
check your ph meter, probably the diode is near to die or is way off from calibration use 2 points ph 4 first then ph 7, if is well calibrated idk how they survive that healthy
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Budha420
Budha420answered grow question 3 years ago
Also did flashclean yesterday if that could be the problem?
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