What is wrong with my babies? Photos attached

supaman

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Hi. I have tried in my journal to diagnose this with no luck. My research suggests a cal-mag def. prior to transplanting I think there was a bit of root rot. I am growing in coco, each water/feed is at 5.8ph, ppm never more than 1200 but mostly around the 900 mark. My tap water runs at 400ppm itself so I just started using bottled water until I get an RO system. Nutrients are canna coco running about 20% below the manufacturer recommendation. I've just done a water of cal-mag nuted water only.

What else can I do? Is this a cal-mag problem?

Any help would be much appreciated!
 

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SnaFuu

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It's a problem of too much nutes, not enough research. One of these is easily corrected.

Maybe still root rot too.
 

supaman

Member
Thanks for the quick responses guys. It's my first coco grow. I've done hydro, aero and soil with awesome results and not a single issue. Coco has been the opposite for me.

I transplanted them at 4 weeks, never gave any nutes for the first 2 weeks. After that I nuted at 25% solution. The problems were there from the time I added nutes. I've been using some AN nutes for roots too. If I transplanted from 500ml pots straight to 3 gallon pots, how much would I need to water to flush? I don't know how it's gone wrong, my ph is never more than 0.02 off of 5.8 so surely the phos should be getting absorbed. Runoff I measured at 6.5 the last time I checked. The research I did said it's pretty stable in coco. The other contradicting info is how often to feed. I was going everyday even if it was still a bit moist. The canna bottle says 1-3 times a day, some say as I would with soil, others say as you would with hydro.

I will do a flush today as I never fed yesterday. I don't know how I could keep it down to 200ppm though? That's almost no nutes
 

supaman

Member
Seems the problem has been solved. I've had a nice growth spurt and nice green leaves. Foliar sprayed a bit and flushed with a 75% solution mix at 5.81ph and 1400ppm total. That includes a 100% dose of magne-cal.

Coco learning curves, hydro and soil are much less of a headache but I have a feeling this is gona be a love hate relationship that will still last longer than the others
 
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