Evil's Adventures

Stonironi

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A ph of 5.8 going in during flower is too low. Hydro is ok but not coco . 6 to start flower and up to 6.2 towards the end and then straight ro water for the last 2 weeks . I've read to feed till the end with coco but I don't see it that way. You leave the nutes in the coco and you will taste it in the end. It seems like you are overdoing something? Most likely cal or mag but prob cal. Everyone seems to do that with coco . Most coco nutes have adequate amounts of calcium . It's usually not enough mag that is the issue and it is different for everyone . Calcium gets bound up in coco and once the cation bank is full you can overdose cal by using cal mag. Then you get other problems. Calmag in veg is cool every other water and then only mag in flower first 2 ish weeks then no more. Hope that helps
 

Evil-Mobo

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A ph of 5.8 going in during flower is too low. Hydro is ok but not coco . 6 to start flower and up to 6.2 towards the end and then straight ro water for the last 2 weeks . I've read to feed till the end with coco but I don't see it that way. You leave the nutes in the coco and you will taste it in the end. It seems like you are overdoing something? Most likely cal or mag but prob cal. Everyone seems to do that with coco . Most coco nutes have adequate amounts of calcium . It's usually not enough mag that is the issue and it is different for everyone . Calcium gets bound up in coco and once the cation bank is full you can overdose cal by using cal mag. Then you get other problems. Calmag in veg is cool every other water and then only mag in flower first 2 ish weeks then no more. Hope that helps
I don't use cal mag usually because of my tap water, I used it last feed/water because of the R/O and to see if it would help. I will adjust the PH on the next feeding. I try to hit 6.0 but sometimes you get a 5.8 or so without adding ph up/down and you don't feel like playing the PH game so you leave it be lol.
 
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Evil-Mobo

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Ok guys the new nutes showed up today. Ionic "hard water". Much easier to mix than the FN and a lot cleaner to work with. I did some minor LST on the top of the canopy as she's still bendy from the middle up pretty much. I watered and fed her with the Ionic EC of 1.6 and PH of 6.0 on the dot. I left the run off in the Tupperware and will do so over night. Tomorrow am whatever isn't sucked up by the plant will be drained out.

Here's a full body shot of her.

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HydroRed

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I have only checked what is going in because I had recently up potted with new coco and so was not really worried with the run off after up potting and a flush with flora kleen lol......
Gotta check that runoff too. It may go in at 6.2 but different nutes buffer ph differently and that 6.2 can turn into 7.8 in the medium in a weeks time if it goes unnoticed.
 
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