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2 plants, same strain,nutes. 1 plant won't gr...

Billyandbarb
Billyandbarbstarted grow question 2y ago
2 plants, same strain,nutes. 1 plant won't grow and 1 is taking right off.roots are easily breaking off to the touch of the stunted one.water changed yesterday with new food still no improvement or sign of. Is there anything I can do to possibly help. First dwc run ever.
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GrowingGrannie
GrowingGrannieanswered grow question 2y ago
First of all, you shouldn't be touching the roots if you haven't sterilized your hands.... Second, it looks like something has contaminated that bucket... third, you can't expect to see any change in one day... so we'll go from there... I would do a couple of things here: first, I would do another bucket change and thoroughly clean the bucket with H2O2 before adding in new pH'd water. While the plant is out of the bucket, I would take it to the sink and spray the roots hard with the sprayer to dislodge as many dead roots as you can. Then I would take a gallon of pH'd water that has about 4tsp of H2O2 in it and thoroughly water all the clay pebbles and roots that are left to sterilize the pebbles of any contaminates that may be in there. Back to your bucket - Add 3tsp of H2O2 and 1tsp of RapidStart (General Hydroponics), and 1/4tsp each of FloraGrow, FloraMicro and FloraBloom. The only other thing I would consider is 1/4 tsp of calimagic or some calmag (they're pretty much all the same but calimagic is in the same nute line). The H2O2 will kill off any fungus or other contaminates, the RapidStart will get the roots going and the small doses of nutes will give the plant SOMETHING to eat while the roots try to repair themselves. One thing you need to resist when growing in DWC (and I know it's hard!) is looking at the roots. That bucket needs to be completely lightproof all the time. The one thing I'm NOT seeing in your bucket is a hole in the top through which you add water/nutes which suggests to me that you take the lid off frequently - probably daily? My buckets did not have that access hole either so I drilled one in each and cover it with duct tape... when I need to add water/nutes, the duct tape is lifted just enough to quickly add what I need and then is sealed right back up. I might have to do 3 or 4 bucket changes throughout a grow and that is the only time the lid is ever removed.... and every bucket change includes cleaning it with H2O2 and then adding those 3tsp into the fresh water along with any nutes. Don't give up on this lady even if she doesn't promise to be a great grow... I think you'll be able to get something out of her and you will learn a lot by trying to get her back in shape... and I don't see why you can't get her back in shape! She won't keep up with the other one but that's ok... she's a photoperiod, yes? That means you've got all the time in the world with her.. As for the nutes... go really easy on her for a little bit... no more than 1tsp each of the Flora series... resist the urge to check on the roots, too - you'll know when they're getting better because the plant will start to grow stronger... and you can go from there. Oh yeah - when you have that netpot off the bucket for the bucket clean/change, drill a 1" hole in the top of it and cover it with duct tape (either grey or black)... and then only open that hole up to add nutes. If you don't have a drainage hole at the bottom where you can extract water to check EC and pH, you can get a cheapo transfer pump (hand pump) like this one... https://smile.amazon.com/CWDRDX-Manual-Siphon-Liquid-Transfer/dp/B0BSBGWQKQ/ Good luck...
Sciolistic_Steve
Sciolistic_Steveanswered grow question 2y ago
shoot for 6pH, you'll lockout fewer things... chemistry doesn't change due to where the plant gets water from -- a sponge, coco, a rez full of water etc.. i'm not sure why this is a common belief unless the pH helps keep rez sanitary or something indirectly beneficial like that.. it's not for the plant's direct benefit as you'll quickly lockout calcium among others if you drop too low. root looks brown.. is that from fertilizer or is it slimy? if slimy, that could easily be the cause of differeing growth. spray it with h2o2 and pray. if otherwise normal, it's just stained from fertilizer and that does happen and no big deal. assuming no other contributing factors, time will tell if your mix works well for 95% of all plants (made up number meant to communicate "most" and only a rarity will show def/tox symptoms over time). My mix works well no matter how many strains i run at one time off 1 reservoir. 1/20 isn't too far off... but never counted and measured. i know the hyrdoton looks cool, but it impedes roots a lot. there are better options out there, imho. sure it works.. lots of things "work." you can make all sorts of less optimally stuff work if you want to. bottom line is the roots have to put in a lot more energy traversing boulders than moving through something fluffy or less obstructive and more room for roots.. large boulders take up a large volume of space. rockwool, perlite etc probably exhibit faster growth.
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CULTIVATORFROG
CULTIVATORFROGanswered grow question 2y ago
Hola!!!! Coincido con growinggrannie. Tienes que contolar tu ph diariamente en vetatativo que este entre 5.5 y 5.9 para tu segunda semana te recomiendo 5.6 e ir aumentando 0.1 por semana. Controlar diariamente el ec siempre ir de menos a mas para no bloquear tus raices. La temperatura del agua tambien es muy importante tiene que estar entre 18⁰ y 22⁰ para controlar los niveles de oxigenacion en tu solucion nutritiva. Suerte
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