myke
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Maybe just a type o , but ya .5 per 10g.
About to give up completely
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Yes it was legitimately abojt 50 grams lol i added and added slowly, checking chlorine and free chlorine levels constantly. Lol its wild but after that much it FINALLY hit 5ppm chlorine and 5ppm free chlorine. Readong up later on chlorine in pools they said that if you're adding and adding and free chlorine wont register, its always due to there being HIGH amounts of bacteria that the chlorine is being instantly used to sanitize.
rkymtnman
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those test strips you got just paid for themselves then!!!!
sounds like you are back on track. just keep up with the shock and light feed and they will recover.
Well i have a spa, and some higger end strips for it but bought 2 other branda as well lol. Thank god i did, i knew sometbkng was going k. Because there qasnt chlorine smell
Dude im not gonna lie at first I was like wtf is going on here lmao. But when i mixed the 5gallon bucket up and it threw the ppms and smelled like a pool hall i knew the shock was good. So i just read up a bit on shocking pools ( i dont shock my hottub i tend it daily instead) and after reading the bacteria vs chlorine thing i said to myself "fuck it, ill add/ test, add/test and so on. Im either gonna kill them all or save em"
Needless to say with help from y'all here once again, a little extra research on shock itself in other uses and a idgaf attitude i THINK it worked because it now smells of chlorine like it should. The roots dont smell, the small plant i took all the way out last night is already pushing new roots back out the net (very very slightly) and leaves are trying hard to stand
myke
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Short answer No,If youve fixed the problem they should take off.Understand that all these changes water/bleach etc... will slow things down.Keep to one EC let it ride.
Starting over is probably best done in a side system.You should really have 2-3 different res, say 8 plants in ea.
As Ive said clones are super sensitive when moved/transplanted,Perhaps your clone guy could treat them first?
I agree after i get a harvest outta this system im definetly changing a few things for sure. One main thing i will be changing is well everything lmao. Square totes instead of 5g buckets, bigger feed and return lines, 8 buckets to 1 rez and possibly going with waterfalls instead of pumps and stones.
I do have a good feeling the 7 i fimmed and topped are not going to make it all, they are just WAY further behind then the rest..
O yea chiller got cloged and allowed my water to get up t 74 last night to, sl thats aweslme! Got it fixed and temps are back down to 67 now though thank god. Gave them a foliar feeding right at lights out this morning after i washed the net pot area frlm thw sides again and also added more shock to bring it back up to 5ppm.
Was able to get the ec down to .83 last night (413 ppm) before i ran out of ro water. I have more ro brewing now. Should i lower the ec even more?
myke
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Stay the course, leave it there.Hard to tell whats helping if ya keep changing things.
Your chiller,your nutes run through?What is the tubing made from?Ive read about certain materials not mixing with different fertilizers?
I have garden hose for the chiller tubing
Hollatchaboy
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Use this grow as your dialing in phase. If you can get them thru a harvest, you should know your system and how your strains react to it for the next one. You're always going to learn something new, but once you have the basics down it becomes less like work. Lol
myke
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Inside the chiller ,like the radiator part lol
O lmao, im not sure. Its a 1/2 hp active aqua
rkymtnman
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Gavg
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I ran 3 runs all completely failed pure rubbish I built various DIY systems ph went to 8.5 every day just couldn't keep a hold on it went to loft on the last one with bin bags ripped out everything stopped growing for over a year now back on soil less to go wrong with.
But if you can make the system work well good luck .
But if you can make the system work well good luck .
myke
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In the early 90’s I ran 4 crops a year. 12 pails one rez. Air stone in ea bucket. Really small pump for recirculating No calmag no chillers. Nothing for root rot Didn’t even know what ph was for the first while. Sure I had some yellow leaves but never had root issues that killed plants.
See thats why i dont understand why im having these issues, only thing that makes since at this stage is what ryk said and that qas maybe my ec was so high it burnt the hell out of the roots and locked them up. My room itself is dialed in well temps are always between 76-78 during on and 68 during off with rh at 65%. I have had it spike 1x to 90° on lights on because my mini split iced up but that was for no more than 4-5 hours. Co2 level flux between 400ppm and 1200ppm
Idk, gonna keep tackeling them and pray they recover quick to get this grow moving on track
rkymtnman
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turn off CO2 now too.
0.5 EC. 5ppm chlorine. some plants are worse than others, some are recovering well. nice and easy until they are back to normal.
I havent ran my co2 at all thats just what it fluctuates without any on. Going to frop the ec down more in about 2 hours had to wait for more ro to brew
