Missing something BIG with LED lights. Please help.

AloeRuss

AloeRuss

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I been growing for 10 plus years but never under LED.
I purchased several “Growers Choice 200 w” LED lights and I just don’t recognize my always thriving green and otherwise healthy plants.
I grow in coco with perlite. Using:
Tap water with evaporated chlorine.
Flora micro 3ml
Flora Grow 4 ml
Flora bloom 1 ml
Azos 2 scoops per 5 gallons.
PPM 550
PH 6.2
Humidity 65-70
Temp 80-81
The light is about 23 inches away.

ALL bottom nodes on all plants are literally stunned. Something I never saw before with CFL bulbs.

Please help me to investigate. I don’t know what I am missing.

Thank you so much.
 

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go go kid

go go kid

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you could move your lights closer and is that the recomended dose for that particular food of have you halved it like you should do? it does look like theres something going on with the N
 
Dreminen169

Dreminen169

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Something to consider. LED’s will cause more of a nutrient uptake then HPS or MH. I see the new growth looks lime green which leads me to believe a deficiency & that the dark green leaves were from before you took the cutting (is it a clone? Your statement leads me to believe this but not 100)? My guess would be to up the feed & make sure pH is right, but without more info I’m just shooting in the dark with an educated guess
 
OldMedUser

OldMedUser

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Very strange ratio of your 3-part nutes at 4-3-1. For sprouts and plants the size of yours I go with a 1-1-1 ratio, GMB, then when vigorously vegging switch to a 3-2-1 tehn at the flip switch up to 1-1-2 with a dash of P/K boost then after the stretch go with 1-2-3 and Big Bud for less P compared to K. You will be getting N toxicity fairly soon with what you're feeding especially if you feed a little too often.

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AloeRuss

AloeRuss

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I fed them only twice but I was leaning same direction. Over feeding. I will fix that.
what is the best way for them to recover? Half the intensity of the light and give em some super thrive?
 
bam0813

bam0813

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I don't use ro system but i heard the best are 4:1 and worst are around 20:1 waste to ro water. I have no idea if its true but if so I never will either.
 
bam0813

bam0813

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So its not true ? or your laughing for not thinking i need to run 3-19 gal down the drain to grow weed.
 
OldMedUser

OldMedUser

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AloeRuss said:
I fed them only twice but I was leaning same direction. Over feeding. I will fix that.
what is the best way for them to recover? Half the intensity of the light and give em some super thrive?
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I'd flush a bit of water thru them to reduce the amount of nutes present then feed with a better ratio as I mentioned above. 1-1-1 at 1ml/L to start so they some of everything to regain their balance.

Thumbs down from me for using Superthrive with vegging plants. I don't even us it anymore for transplants or seedlings. I have a bottle of seaweed nutes I start babies with then just regular nutes after that. I do like to sprinkle a little DynoMyco in the hole when repotting after slicing off the bottom of the rootball to get rid of long roots. Never see any transplant shock.

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OldMedUser

OldMedUser

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bam0813 said:
I don't use ro system but i heard the best are 4:1 and worst are around 20:1 waste to ro water. I have no idea if its true but if so I never will either.
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Might be 3:1 and some newer systems do better than that. Once I get my system up and running I'll capture my waste for a bit just to see how mine performs.

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