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The key to working on electrics safely is only work on it unplugged. :)

I would like coca tea.

Yeah I'm just doing this till the lights come on. Then I'll try straight RO. This wasn't a PH or PPM fuckup. The oxydizer should only take dead tissue off the roots, and then we'll see what happens...

Why is that, exactly? My theory is the roots dried up on the outside and the oxidizer will help remove that outer skin and reveal the water-uptaking vessels below it. :)

Not really, unless someone has a suggestion. :)

Yes if someone wants to lend me their meter. :)

The roots were dry a day or so. I filled with water/nutes and plant is still not happy. Trying hydro peroxide at 10ml/gal (arbitrary) to see if that perks it up some!

I saved at least $200 on each light (compared to "quantum" boards with similar output) so I'll take the ridiculous looks. When it's on you can't even look at it so that works out nicely. :) And plants do see green light. It is part of the spectrum that they use. The blue-red thing is largely...

3x $3.99 packs of 10 plastic light bulb sockets (ebay)= $12 32 LED light bulbs (amazon) = $30ish Scrap piece of MDF (lowes or etc)= $4 Some wire = $4 Some solder and electrical tape = $2 Total cost of 272 watt LED grow light = ~$50 I left the globes on the outer four lights for now until I...

Turns out my PH was WAY low. It's sitting at the lower limit of 5.4/5.5 right now at half nutes so it must have been even lower at full strength. Here's a picture of the crazy side growth that exploded in just one day after changing the nutes. Hydro is SO much better than soil growing, but it...

It's an autoflower and the light is on 24/7... Will switch to the hardwater nutes with our high-ppm tap water tomorrow after the new PH meter gets here. Thank you everyone for the insights and advice!

Possibly this is all because of bad PH levels. My old Oakton ph meter died but I just ordered a new one (Apera 610) which should be here tomorrow. I just swapped buckets with 1/2 strength nutes, and my Micro Hardwater just got here too so I don't need to use distilled water/calmag any more (I...

Thank you for the info!

Wouldn't a nitrogen burn start at the leaf tips? :)

Here's a close-up of the mid-leaf burned area... I am familiar with burning the leaf tips but this mid-leaf burn is a new one.

I am using General Hydroponics Flora nutes. This last bucket change I used one tsp per gallon (4 tsp in four gallons) each of the basic nutes (micro veg and bloom). Since then the bottom growth kind of exploded and the top got all curly as you can see. The older leaves also got some mid-leaf...