Switched to GH flora 3 part.
Playing around with flood times.
The are taking up water at an exponential rate. Started with 3, 3 minute floods, up to 6, 4 minute floods and they're still drying up the puddles within an hour.
Plant 1 is ahead of plant 2 by a day but it is half the size๐คทโโ๏ธ
Topped day 16. Not obvious in the photos as I had hoped but they bounced back within minutes
Thank to evryone who gave their input, every little bit helps๐
After all your suggestions, I've, backed off the light, backed off the flood time and count. We will see if these girls perk up a little more๐
Day 17 I noticed progression of what I believe to be a calcium deficiency? That's on me, forgot the calmag originally๐คฆโโ๏ธ another thing I decided to look into was the twisting of the leaves as the plant 1 is also starting to show. Could my ph be alot higher than I think? 4 gal res I added a couple ml of phosphoric acid at the start and about 1ml a day since(I didnt prep my cube as well as I should of) seems like alot to me. The system would rise from 5.3 to 6.3 throughout the day. A flood cycle doesnt seem to affect the ph, more over time. I am constantly stirring the mix and no my meter is not yet calibrated. I have ordered what I need but I'm considering calibrating with the chemicals I have and doing a res change. Good news is, they do seem a little more lifelike after implementing all your suggestions.
Okay drained and rinsed my res, ro water into the tank was holding 6.97ph, good enough for the girls I go out with๐คทโโ๏ธ gonna mix up a batch, do a top feed to waste, and see what happens. It has been nearly 24h since my last flood.
Also, struggling with lows of 30% humidity sometimes. Dont know if that plays a role here.
Okay something was off.. I did a top feed to waste with fresh 5.3 nutes and the runoff came out at 7.5.. so I did it again...and again...maybe a half doesnt times to each block with no change. I started to reuse the runoff as I wrote off the batch at this point. I then switched to a pump and did recirc feed to each block aprox 20 litres at a time, stopping to rebalance. Literally 100s of litres later I am stable at 5.5....going to drain rinse and refill.
The interesting part is that what ever was saturated in those blocks is non conductive, the ec didnt change the entire time๐คทโโ๏ธ
Spent the next couple days recovering.
Looking better now.
Sardine catcher installed.