pics of my plants.. someone please help!!!!

Ok, I'm on day 14 with my master kush.. Started with 10 seeds and I'm down to 7.. the 3 that died however looked like shit ever since they barely germinated and were significantally smaller.. the rest seemED to be doing just great

the strain is master kush and im doing 4 in soil 3 in the aerogarden..

the soil plants are just fine, however on the aerogarden plants i started to notice my lower leaves dying and since its been 2 weeks, i decided to change the nutrient mix in the aerogarden using foxfarms recommended at less than 50% strength.. once i replaced the resivoir they started getting even worse!!!

here is some pics hopfully someone can tell me what it is

I am lost right now + this sites been down and ive been going crazy.. I dont know if im overdoing it, underdoing it, or what im doing wrong.. someone please help i got pics attached

Since the site was down, i used my best judgement and changed the resivoir once again with nothing but fresh water ph adjusted to 5.3 and i figured, I would just top off with nutrient solution over the next week and leave the fresh water in there.. is this a good idea?

any other comments on wheter the other plants are doing good or not would be appreciated as well

heres some more pics.. i posted pics of them all however.. the 2 ones with burns are the ones mainly in question

the biggest plant in the aerogarden is not suffering as much as the smaller ones

The bottomest leafs are yellowing which tells us the plant is feeding of itself to grow. Nutrient lockout maybe? the fresh water was an o.k. idea but you need a ppm meter to regulate the nutes properly, just using JUST grow big, big bloom makes a bit of a mess anyhow.

I would say you got NUT Burn.

I never feed the plants nuts for the first 7-10 days. On the first feeding, I go at about 23-35% strength, then build slowly from there.

P.S. I ASSume you were feeding them from the start.

some strains differ, i guess... i've hit clones from the start with outrageous ppm's and achieved no nutrient burns.

first 5 days no nutes then started feeding them at abut 40%

yeah me too. I have some seedlings 12 days old and I have been giving nutes full reccomended and no probs..........

hope this works out for you

good luck~

well the resivoir is 100% fresh water at good ph so hopfully if i just top it off with a 50% nutrient mix daily, it should gradualy adust.. no?

The fact that you are topping off everyday with 50% is not good. That could be your problem. The water evaporates not the nutes, so basically you are using too many nutes. Do you have a PPM meter? I go almost two weeks sometimes without adding nutes, I just top off with water unless my PPMs go down then I might add nutes.

50% of what?

my friend you need a ppm meter badly.


remeber you get out of it what you put into it.

no.. im gonna need one but after spending on a couple things i cant afford it plus im going away for 10 days tomorrow.. i need a ppm meter

i added fresh water and im going to top off every 3-4 days and top off with fresh water the other days..

i hope nothing happens while im gone.. i got someone watching them

Yeah don't add any nutes just water until your next res change, you are killing them with too many nutes, just water and water only

yes i know and i put a shitload into it already. i have everything you can ask for at this point with the exception of a ppm meter and a carbon filter

hows this meter look.. i can definatley afford this right now.. however still probably wouldnt be able to use it til i get back

check it out: New TDS METER - PPM TESTER - Hydroponics, Marine - (item 170134042581 end time Aug-03-07 18:00:00 PDT)

also anyone who is using foxfarm.. after storing them for a while (in the water mixture).. are they supposed to start smelling extremly bad?

I don't know about that paticular one but you definitely need one for hydro. You'll know when to add nutes and when to just give H2O. Like I said I rarely add nutes if ever between res changes.

Ralphie said:

yes i know and i put a shitload into it already. i have everything you can ask for at this point with the exception of a ppm meter and a carbon filter

hows this meter look.. i can definatley afford this right now.. however still probably wouldnt be able to use it til i get back

check it out: New TDS METER - PPM TESTER - Hydroponics, Marine - (item 170134042581 end time Aug-03-07 18:00:00 PDT)

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that meter looks fine

Ralphie said:

also anyone who is using foxfarm.. after storing them for a while (in the water mixture).. are they supposed to start smelling extremly bad?

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as i said before, big bloom has organics and muddy substances in it that get messy, and smelly. i don't use it in my hydroponic system anymore, grow big works just fine for vegging.

In the begining I add nutes alot. Only because I very gradually increase their PPM. I start at 200PPM and slowly work my way up. Every other day I will try to raise the PPM 50 - 75 until I reach the magical 1200PPM. Then I flush it, raise it to 1400 and never touch it again until I flush the resevoir again.

The PPM goes UP every day by itself. sometimes I don't even have to add nutes to get it to go up by 50 -m 75, it just does.

I would flush the res and get it to ~ 300ppm with plants that size.