sick plants soil grow

Meric

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Hey all i will post the pic later tonight as my lights are currently off but your help is needed as i am unsure.
Currently growing in
3 gal fabric pots
bumper crop soil and mycorrhiza compost mix same company(soil ph 6.3)
i added perlite to give a 70/30 mixture
grow tent
1000w led using only veg mode
73-76 degrees 50-60% humidity
using general organic nute line by general hydro
use both tap water ph 6.6/150 ppm on 500 scale RO water ph 5.5/0 ppm
So the first issue i have is nute line says not to PH and i think thats what got me into the mess im in as i listened and then sh#t went hay wire. When mixed roughly half - 3/4s strength ph drops between 4 - 4.5 depending on which water i have used. I know have tried to pre aerate my water to help off gas to raise ph and not ppm but this is still not enough. I tried mixing my water between my well water (no chlorine or any thing) and RO to help buffer still drops i also have tried using straight well water and still no good. at the end i have to add roughly 150-200 ppm of PH up to assist which really kicks my ppms way up. when i checked my run off it was 2000 ppm and 6.4(did a bad job as my fabric pots seeped clean water out the side into tray just not accurate enough for me). My feed is roughly 400-500. I believe the plants are hungry and possibly have a cal/mag deficiency. They are in late veg and i believe i should be feeding closer to 7 or 800 as no sign of nute burn. I also think i need to either water more or more often as i think i am allowing the plants medium to dry to much. was feeding 1 liter every 3 days only on every 2 waters as the 3rd is just ph tap water that has been off gassed. I would usually water and the leaves i would see get a little droopy. never really checked medium only sometimes i would do the pick up method. Any insight would be wonderful and i will post pics tonight.
 

Red Eyed

Well-Known Member
Hey all i will post the pic later tonight as my lights are currently off but your help is needed as i am unsure.
Currently growing in
3 gal fabric pots
bumper crop soil and mycorrhiza compost mix same company(soil ph 6.3)
i added perlite to give a 70/30 mixture
grow tent
1000w led using only veg mode
73-76 degrees 50-60% humidity
using general organic nute line by general hydro
use both tap water ph 6.6/150 ppm on 500 scale RO water ph 5.5/0 ppm
So the first issue i have is nute line says not to PH and i think thats what got me into the mess im in as i listened and then sh#t went hay wire. When mixed roughly half - 3/4s strength ph drops between 4 - 4.5 depending on which water i have used. I know have tried to pre aerate my water to help off gas to raise ph and not ppm but this is still not enough. I tried mixing my water between my well water (no chlorine or any thing) and RO to help buffer still drops i also have tried using straight well water and still no good. at the end i have to add roughly 150-200 ppm of PH up to assist which really kicks my ppms way up. when i checked my run off it was 2000 ppm and 6.4(did a bad job as my fabric pots seeped clean water out the side into tray just not accurate enough for me). My feed is roughly 400-500. I believe the plants are hungry and possibly have a cal/mag deficiency. They are in late veg and i believe i should be feeding closer to 7 or 800 as no sign of nute burn. I also think i need to either water more or more often as i think i am allowing the plants medium to dry to much. was feeding 1 liter every 3 days only on every 2 waters as the 3rd is just ph tap water that has been off gassed. I would usually water and the leaves i would see get a little droopy. never really checked medium only sometimes i would do the pick up method. Any insight would be wonderful and i will post pics tonight.
Watering every 3rd day is about right for soil....you want to have a dry period in soil as well as a wet period. Too much water and you can literally drown them. Hard to really give more advice with what's going on without seeing an actual picture of the plant.
 

NightOwlBono

Well-Known Member
Are you useing the general organics starter box?like the whole lineup or just the base's 'a' and 'b'?

I used that whole line years ago on a bunch of lettuce,spinach,kale,etc.
I found it to be lacking nitrogen no matter what combination of the bottles I used
 

Meric

Member
I put the ph probr in the soil and am reading 6.8-7. I will do a better job checking runoff on my next feed
 

Meric

Member
anyone else. I thought PH as the curling of the leaves. I then saw the color change throughout the plant
 
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