Help!! What's wrong??
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ISK
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sorry but that's a poor picture...may help if you could provide some details about your grow
Maine Grower15
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It is a tent with a 600 watt hps 3 osalating fans and a inline can with carbon filter dehumidifier, was wondering with nutes everyday until I learned they need to dry out a bit first
passdadutch
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If soil and feeding daily def burning the plants, prob getting some kind of lockout at same time. What's your sched? How big pots and how much water on watering? What kind of nutes? Do you ph at all?
Maine Grower15
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12/12 it is a 20 gal pot and a gallon and I believe it's called general hydroponics and I do not ph
pseudobotanist
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Which product? GH makes a bunch of ferts
Maine Grower15
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It's the go box bunch of different ones right now I'm giving it big bloom thrive(10ml calmag(5ml)big bio bud(2.5ml) with 1 gallon of water
Strocat
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you're watering everyday in a 20 gallon pot and giving it nutes every day??!?!?! brother I'm doing an autoflower in a 3.5 gallon pot and only water every 5 days. you want your soil to damn near dry out before u water again... and with nutes id do this.... feed... plain water.. feed ... plain water... the 1st thing I would do is flush your plant, then let it dry out then give it nutes and start the nute/water/nute/water... in a 20 gallon pot indoors.. you can prob go a damn week without watering.. you add perlite to your soil?
pseudobotanist
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You do not, I repeat, DO NOT want the pot to be bone dry. That creates dry channels in the soil and the container won't hold the water well
pseudobotanist
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That rhetoric is wrong. He has. 20 gallon pot, 2 inches dry there is not the same as 2 inches dry in a 1 or even 3 gallon pot
Dr. Who
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Pseudo is again CORRECT.......I'll add this -
Hmm, a 20 gallon pot in a tent the size of the one you have (Avatar pic) is simply overkill.....at the most a 10 and that would be if I SCROGged the whole space available with branching - no light penetration below canopy....
You would do just FINE with 5 gallon pots in there! Hell, 9 plants in 3 gallon pots will be killer, well topped.
Yeah, the pic makes it tough......DO NOT FLUSH! Simply water it with straight water, pHed to 6.5 with about 3ml of Ca/Mg for a week.....Lighten up on the nutes and add a living bio to it......There should be one in that Go Box I think....
pH the feed solution before applying (6.5).....organic nutes of the like that you use.....have way off pH......use vin or lemon juice and use.
Doc
Maine Grower15
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Thank you for the detailed response I do not add anything an how do I flush it very new still
Maine Grower15
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Awesome man!!! Thank you!! Just for the sake of learning why do they say it's a bad idea to flush?
Dr. Who
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Your going to put way to much moisture into the soil that will remain for extended times....
In soil, this will result in an unnaturally long pH swing that will effect the uptake of certain nutrients....
Can cause anaerobic (lack of O2) in the soil and that promotes fermentation.....All things that are bad for the soil and then very bad for your plant.....
Lastly, It causes the plant to be in a stressed state longer and actually makes the stress more intense....Stressed plants give off pheromones that attract bugs - Mites are called to plants this way....This can be made worse with some insecticide use...Merit or anything with neonictinoid based insecticides actually make the plant produce more of the pheromone and can bring on some real nasty mite infestations!
I've tried the Leeching (flush) thing years ago....I had more problems then it was worth! I found that simply watering away the problem was WAY less stressful to the plant.
Doc
Maine Grower15
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Thanks doc!!! It's helps a lot
Alexander Supertramp
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Yep water until you get decent runoff from the bottom of the pots. Do not water again until the pots feel light when lifted. You will get the hang of it. And don't flush. Just plain water for a few weeks like Doc said. Then ease back in to feeding.