Guys my plant is in flowering mode and rapidly turning yellow. I have been giving it the proper PH for the entire time. mY other plants are fine and i do all the waterings at the same time different containers. The runoff water gets measured at 7.7-7.8. I give 6.5 -6.6 ph. I use General Hydroponics Maxibloom&Grow powder I also have kool bloom for late flowering but havent used it yet. The leaves are turning completely yellow and falling off everyday. I cant figure out what the fucking problem is. im sure its a lockout bc the runoff is way too high. I know people say that doesnt matter but netiome i had trouble in the past i could tell from the ph readings of the runoff water. I dont know what to do. Can anybody help with ideas . I have been giving proper 6.5 plain water for a week and it hasnt affected the runoff water one bit. All the other plants runoff water doesnt go past 7.1, and one of the plants is 6.8. Nothing has helped so i gave it a nutrient earlier in the week and then again last night. i did it again bc the leaves got worse and is rising up and across the plant!!
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calvin.m16
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Your pH sounds high, I would shoot more for 6.0 pH. Reading runoff is arguably inaccurate. I would start by going for a little lower pH and another thing is you didn't mention what your EC/PPM are that you are feeding the maxibloom at. Pictures also do help..
I never had luck with maxi cause I use RO and it tends to pH crash FOR ME AT LEAST.
I never had luck with maxi cause I use RO and it tends to pH crash FOR ME AT LEAST.
LeastExpectedGrower
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Lockout is easier to detect if you're measuring runoff EC rather than pH.
farmerfischer
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Pics please
Billy the Mountain
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CWF
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You might be right, been a year since I switched to LOS. Have to dig out up/down bottles and see which one is nearly empty. First go with organic was great; no going back to MB now. Meter is Apera, good quality, spot on with standard solutions. Haven’t needed it for months. I’m out.
LeastExpectedGrower
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Concur. Once I moved to filtered water I had to invest heavily in pH Up with Maxibloom. Even with some Ca/Mg & epsom it was down in the 5.5 and below range.
LeastExpectedGrower
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If I use Maxi with my unfiltered well water, it drops it to a really nice place in the early 6's...but then my EC is too high since the water something like 220-270ppm, and not in a good way.You’re right, it was pH Up. That bottle is nearly empty - the pH Down bottle hasn’t been opened! Sorry! Stoner moment ….
Wow, thanks guys for all the responses. The PPM of the runoff water is 770 and I put it in between 600 and 700. I water the plants every day&give nutes every other day. I was used to putting in nutes at 800-900 with previous grows that used different nutrients. I gave 1/2 teaspoon of the Maxibloom for a few weeks&I just got the Kool Bloom powder to add in at 1/8th on top of the 1/2 teaspoon of maxibloom. I just startedf the maxibloom last week. My problems were happening b4 the maxibloom but i attributed to light burn- i was away on vacation and my brother didnt adjust the lights like i asked so a lot of leaves got burnt unfortunately. I thought the yellow leaves were just burnt leaves that died. I left everything unchecked for a while until i started to notice that perfectly fine green leaves were turning completely yellow. Thats when i realizied the burnt leaves were not the culprit. I always make sure the PH is at 6.5-6.6. I read that that is the sweet spot for all the ingredients to work properly,If i have that wrong please correct me.
LeastExpectedGrower
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770ppm doesn't sound like lockout to me. It might help people here if you say what your medium is. Are you in coco, or soil (if so, what) or soil-less?
Watering every day makes sense to me if you're in coco, but if you're in soil that seems like too often.
Watering every day makes sense to me if you're in coco, but if you're in soil that seems like too often.
fox farm soil/coco mix is the medium. I measured the PH from the runoff in other vibrant plants&it was high just like the runoff in the plant with the problems. The PPM of the other plants are both just under 800. So that tells me that the feeding schedule isnt a culprit. The PPM was probably higher but i gave the plant a flush with florakleen. But since the flush with florakleen leaves got further damage,so idk what the problem could be. I just hope i fixed the issue with the flush&its just taking longer to rebound.
Flork
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I wish you would have said what medium before I had to search all the way back to a January post of yours to find that out lol.
So you're in Fox Farm Bush Doctor's Cocoloco? If so you should treat it like soil. And run off in a medium with added nutes will show high ppm.
And I'm on my last friggin cocoloco grow. That shit is giving me the red ass!!
This last batch I got seemed to have no nutrients in it from the start. But usually I add a little organic material like ewc and other things, this time I didn't and I've been battling underfeeding the past few weeks.
Been using it for 2 years or so and I hate it now and going back to coco coir.
Sounds under fed but need pics.
So you're in Fox Farm Bush Doctor's Cocoloco? If so you should treat it like soil. And run off in a medium with added nutes will show high ppm.
And I'm on my last friggin cocoloco grow. That shit is giving me the red ass!!
This last batch I got seemed to have no nutrients in it from the start. But usually I add a little organic material like ewc and other things, this time I didn't and I've been battling underfeeding the past few weeks.
Been using it for 2 years or so and I hate it now and going back to coco coir.
Sounds under fed but need pics.