First Dwc grow. 1 seedling not looking to great.

Yea very true I calibrate mine once a month also proper care for your meters is very important I found that out the hard way after going thru about 5 different meters blue lab is my go to definitely worth the money
Just got my Ph solution and my pen was off 2.4 on the chart. So when I was thinking I was at 5.2 I was really 7.6. Also raised my fans because I think I see some windburn on the Bd. Let’s see how they react with a properly balanced Rez.
 

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Just got my Ph solution and my pen was off 2.4 on the chart. So when I was thinking I was at 5.2 I was really 7.6. Also raised my fans because I think I see some windburn on the Bd. Let’s see how they react with a properly balanced Rez.
Let’s see pics and don’t just adjust your ph with up and down you gotta correct the issue I would drain reservoir add new water with nutrient solution With proper ppm and if it’s not at the right ph within an hour at the most then add your ph up and ph down and never combine the ph up and down if you ph your water from 5.5 up to 7.5 using ph up Don’t try to correct that by adding ph down you have to do a full flush as in nutrient change and start from scratch imo you should never have ph up and ph down in the same reservoir I believe it creates a nutrient lockout even if your ph is on and all those salts and bases aren’t good for the plant
 
Let’s see pics and don’t just adjust your ph with up and down you gotta correct the issue I would drain reservoir add new water with nutrient solution With proper ppm and if it’s not at the right ph within an hour at the most then add your ph up and ph down and never combine the ph up and down if you ph your water from 5.5 up to 7.5 using ph up Don’t try to correct that by adding ph down you have to do a full flush as in nutrient change and start from scratch imo you should never have ph up and ph down in the same reservoir I believe it creates a nutrient lockout even if your ph is on and all those salts and bases aren’t good for the plant
Middle plant is the Bd we were originally talking about. Left and right are new ones.
Will pick the best two and grow those out. I figured 4 plants in a 3x3 was asking for problems.
 

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Middle plant is the Bd we were originally talking about. Left and right are new ones.
Will pick the best two and grow those out. I figured 4 plants in a 3x3 was asking for problems.
So Av customer support says my Rez can float from 4.7 to 7.7 and still be giving my plants the correct Nutes needed of following there feed recommendations. Since it’s supposed to be Ph Perfect they recommended no ph up or down if within those levels.
What are your thoughts on that? Sounds crazy but since I know nada curious what you’re thoughts are.
 

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So Av customer support says my Rez can float from 4.7 to 7.7 and still be giving my plants the correct Nutes needed of following there feed recommendations. Since it’s supposed to be Ph Perfect they recommended no ph up or down if within those levels.
What are your thoughts on that? Sounds crazy but since I know nada curious what you’re thoughts are.
I don’t agree with that I’ve been using advanced nutes for 5 years I’ll adjust ph if it’s really high or really low but it usually stays in the right range for me because I use the ph perfect as well. But all I use is part a and part b with hydro guard I try to keep it simple but that’s for my veg for flower I use canna
 
I don’t agree with that I’ve been using advanced nutes for 5 years I’ll adjust ph if it’s really high or really low but it usually stays in the right range for me because I use the ph perfect as well. But all I use is part a and part b with hydro guard I try to keep it simple but that’s for my veg for flower I use canna
Hey man! You were very helpful and as my second attempt is starting to flower I was wondering what ratio of your advanced nutes / ML per gal you’d be using a little over a week into flower.
 

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Hey man! You were very helpful and as my second attempt is starting to flower I was wondering what ratio of your advanced nutes / ML per gal you’d be using a little over a week into flower.
I base it off of Ppms lights and plant size do you have the amount of light you can tell me and show a pick of plant size sorry been busy with my outdoor haven’t been on in awhile
 

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If the plants are decent size and you have enough light I put my ppms with canna at 900-1100 when I did advance in flower I could get my ppms up to 1500 before I would see burn
 

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Thanks for replying. When I did my last Rez change 4 days ago my ppm was right at 1400. I’m week 4.5 into flower. The blue dream from this Op and the middle and left are autos. Made a mistake trying to run 3 and ran out of room. Think plant size me probably be suffering bc of it.
If your lights aren’t putting out 1400 watts that’s too high of ppm they look over nuted to me too much nitrogen that why the leaf tips are curling and they’re so dark what lights are you using?
 

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If your lights aren’t putting out 1400 watts that’s too high of ppm they look over nuted to me too much nitrogen that why the leaf tips are curling and they’re so dark what lights are you using?
I think u don’t have enough light for the amount of ppms u have are the roots looking healthy?
 
I think u don’t have enough light for the amount of ppms u have are the roots looking healthy?
I think u don’t have enough light for the amount of ppms u have are the roots looking healthy?
Dang I thought that was heat stress and a calcium def. That was right before lights came on. I’m using 2 hydrocrunch 240s. I can’t find how many actual watts they produce but I know they are cheap. I don’t have anything to compare the roots to but I think the are ok? I’ll get a pic when lights come on. Was trying not to post blurple pics. The picture I’m about to post are a few weeks old but best pics I have of roots.

Next round I’ve been seeing a lot of talk about spyderfarmer leds and Mars, will probably buy one of those brands.
 

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Ok well think if those are producing 240 watts a piece and you have 2 that’s 480 watts I wouldn’t go much above 500 ppms when it comes to nutes you want your watts and ppms to pretty much match up for healthy plants. Imo I say next Rez change drop it to say 600-700 ppms and see if they recover you don’t want to do a huge fluctuation whether it’s dropping or raising ppms
 

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I would suggest using chlorine instead of H2O2. It's very easy to overdo it with peroxide and you have no residual effect. That poor thing looks fried.

Chlorine on the other hand is very hard to overdo and has residual effect of about 48-72h. 5ppm is safe for humans and most plants.
 

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I would suggest using chlorine instead of H2O2. It's very easy to overdo it with peroxide and you have no residual effect. That poor thing looks fried.

Chlorine on the other hand is very hard to overdo and has residual effect of about 48-72h. 5ppm is safe for humans and most plants.
Idk about chlorine I’ve always used h2o2 and Hydroguard or some other beneficial for root growth hasn’t failed me yet I’ve used voodoo and rhizo as well for beneficials
 

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Idk about chlorine I’ve always used h2o2 and Hydroguard or some other beneficial for root growth hasn’t failed me yet I’ve used voodoo and rhizo as well for beneficials
You mix an oxidizer with living bacteria culture. This is very counterproductive. From my understanding you just go around in circles.

Bad bacteria culture/root rot --> H2O2 all bacteria dead--> adding bacteria culture/root rot. Doesn't make any sense..
 
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Ok well think if those are producing 240 watts a piece and you have 2 that’s 480 watts I wouldn’t go much above 500 ppms when it comes to nutes you want your watts and ppms to pretty much match up for healthy plants. Imo I say next Rez change drop it to say 600-700 ppms and see if they recover you don’t want to do a huge fluctuation whether it’s dropping or raising ppms
Is that a ok amount of watts for a 3x3? I plan on making a change when these finish just didn’t want to start upgrading stuff before one successful one crop. Attached is a pic of the roots I took yesterday.
 

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I would suggest using chlorine instead of H2O2. It's very easy to overdo it with peroxide and you have no residual effect. That poor thing looks fried.

Chlorine on the other hand is very hard to overdo and has residual effect of about 48-72h. 5ppm is safe for humans and most plants.
I have been using hydroguard and hydrozyme. Will look more into chlorine. Thanks. This being my first run I am trying to keep it as simple as possible while covering all the basics. Do my roots not look good? When you say fried can you explain that a little better. Do you mean the roots or plants or both? From heat / nutrients? Sorry just trying to get some understanding.
 

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Roots look great!!!! Keep it up but for next run try to run ppms close to if not the same as your available watts I have a pic of the formula to use I just got to find it and I’ll post it
 

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Also if you don’t have a jewelers loop get one or buy a jiusion digital microscope to check out your tri combs don’t harvest too early I like the dovetail myself plugs right into laptop or phone works great doesn’t stress the eyes
 
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