Hello,
I'm new to the forum, and new to growing. My friend had to get rid of this plant the other day due to spousal issues and legal threats arriving from such. Need not say I wasn't prepared to take this on. I picked up a VIPARSPECTRA P600 Light, and have it stuffed in a closet for the time being while my grow tent is on it's way.
Everything I have done, and Everything I know about it.
City Tap - 7.4 PH, 300 PPM
Nutes - General Hydroponics Flora Series Trio
PH Down - General Hydroponics PH Down
Tester - VIVOSUN PH & EC Combo Tester Kit
Light - ViparSpectra P600 LED Full Spectrum Grow Light
Soil/Grow Medium - She said it was a mix of coco and soil, soil seems sorta loamy(sandy?). I amended a tiny bit of some leftover perlite potting mix from Home Depot on top.
Container - 5 Gallon Bucket with Holes drilled into the bottom & sides near the bottom.
I received the plant about a week ago, it seemed to have a bit of yellow or brighter green color to the sugar leaves and crisping at the edges of fan leaves, she said she had recently transplanted it. I have been dilligently checking runoff pH everytime I water it and it seems consistently at about 7.2-7.4, despite input pH being 6.0-6.5. It also had an PPM of over 1500+. I figured the leaf issues were caused by lockout via pH or Salt Lockout, combined with nutrient burn from Excessive PPM. I have tried doing two mini flushes(5 gallons of water through the 5 gallon container) to see if I get even a slight lowering of the pH, to no avail. It did lower the PPM however to acceptable levels, and I think I can consistently get output to within 200 of input if I water->feed->water->feed with 10-20% runoff, which is what I've read.
My question, is what could be causing my runoff pH to be so dang high, and is the leaf issue consistent with my hypothesis? Should I water with 5.0 pH water and see if that helps? I've heard you need nutrients to displace the salts in the soil and that flushing with just straight Distilled wouldn't help much. I don't want to destroy the soil structure & microbiome either by excessive flushing. I've considered transplanting again into a different medium but I do not want to hurt or disturb the plant. I did also just monster crop the plant just in case it doesn't pull through, and so I can control the soil conditions exactly. However, I know she, and I would both like to still get some yield off of this one...
Thanks a ton,
I have Discord & other mediums if those would be easier to troubleshoot through.
I'm new to the forum, and new to growing. My friend had to get rid of this plant the other day due to spousal issues and legal threats arriving from such. Need not say I wasn't prepared to take this on. I picked up a VIPARSPECTRA P600 Light, and have it stuffed in a closet for the time being while my grow tent is on it's way.
Everything I have done, and Everything I know about it.
City Tap - 7.4 PH, 300 PPM
Nutes - General Hydroponics Flora Series Trio
PH Down - General Hydroponics PH Down
Tester - VIVOSUN PH & EC Combo Tester Kit
Light - ViparSpectra P600 LED Full Spectrum Grow Light
Soil/Grow Medium - She said it was a mix of coco and soil, soil seems sorta loamy(sandy?). I amended a tiny bit of some leftover perlite potting mix from Home Depot on top.
Container - 5 Gallon Bucket with Holes drilled into the bottom & sides near the bottom.
I received the plant about a week ago, it seemed to have a bit of yellow or brighter green color to the sugar leaves and crisping at the edges of fan leaves, she said she had recently transplanted it. I have been dilligently checking runoff pH everytime I water it and it seems consistently at about 7.2-7.4, despite input pH being 6.0-6.5. It also had an PPM of over 1500+. I figured the leaf issues were caused by lockout via pH or Salt Lockout, combined with nutrient burn from Excessive PPM. I have tried doing two mini flushes(5 gallons of water through the 5 gallon container) to see if I get even a slight lowering of the pH, to no avail. It did lower the PPM however to acceptable levels, and I think I can consistently get output to within 200 of input if I water->feed->water->feed with 10-20% runoff, which is what I've read.
My question, is what could be causing my runoff pH to be so dang high, and is the leaf issue consistent with my hypothesis? Should I water with 5.0 pH water and see if that helps? I've heard you need nutrients to displace the salts in the soil and that flushing with just straight Distilled wouldn't help much. I don't want to destroy the soil structure & microbiome either by excessive flushing. I've considered transplanting again into a different medium but I do not want to hurt or disturb the plant. I did also just monster crop the plant just in case it doesn't pull through, and so I can control the soil conditions exactly. However, I know she, and I would both like to still get some yield off of this one...
Thanks a ton,
I have Discord & other mediums if those would be easier to troubleshoot through.
