DWCgrower406
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Hello everyone! New to this site, recently joined since im getting back into growing. About 10 years ago i had a perpetual dwc setup going for about 3 years straight. Yeilds werent great (average maybe 1/2g per watt), but i never once lost a plant or had an issue like this. I was using botanicare organic nutes and nothing else. Never used beneficial bacteria, never paid attention to res temp (was likely up in low 70's). Eventually i quit doing it because it just stressed me out too much being in apartment building with neighbors on 3 sides.
10 years later we are fully legal now in montana and i own a house, so its game on. This time around i decided i would switch to chemical nutes because i felt things would just be cleaner and botanicare always turned roots kinda brownish. I only went organic in the first place because the old caregiver that got me started was into the whole organic thing, but honestly i dont feel it matters much as long as you flush properly which is very easy to do quickly in dwc.
So 3 weeks ago i started my grow. RO water, GH flora series with calmag and hydrogaurd, nothing else. Im growing bruce banner #3 from feminized seed which i started in root riot plugs, later to be moved into hydroton. Everything started good other than a consistently rising ph for a few days which i posted about. Suspected from hydroton. That eventually stabilized and no harm to plants. They got a great start and looked awesome up until a week ago. 5 plants total, one still doing awesome, 2 doing kinda ok and 2 are extremely wilted like a plant in dirt that has either too much water or not enough. I mentioned my nutrients which are sitting around 350ppm, ph very closely monitored and kept at 5.8, res temps stay between 62 and 68, never been higher. Using a 1350gph 80watt air pump on 5 buckets, 2 large stones each so more than enough air. Air temp at 75 during day, 68 at night (18/6), humidity has been a bit of a battle. Started down around 25 for first week, then added a humidifier and i can get it up to low 50s now. I would say my environment for plants as well as roots is pretty dang good. Its possible i pushed a bit too high on ppm too soon, got up to 425 or so. At first i thought thats what was going on with the 2 wilted plants. A bit dark green and leaves clawing a bit, but that claw quickly went to full on wilt. I did back those 2 down to 300ppm but its been 3 days with no change, maybe getting worse. To me it looks like a root issue like pythium cutting off supply to the plant, but the roots look fine, no smell, even new growth over last couple days, although very slow. Growth of the plamts themselves has completely stopped. I really just dont get it. The 2 that look kinda ok could just be recovering from a bit of mild nute burn, but i have no idea whats happening with the wilted ones. First pic is all 5, good plant on right, 2 bad ones in back, 2 ok ones in front. Second pic best plant, third pic worst plant, The pic of roots is the most wilted plant, not a huge amount but they look fine to me. Any ideas?
10 years later we are fully legal now in montana and i own a house, so its game on. This time around i decided i would switch to chemical nutes because i felt things would just be cleaner and botanicare always turned roots kinda brownish. I only went organic in the first place because the old caregiver that got me started was into the whole organic thing, but honestly i dont feel it matters much as long as you flush properly which is very easy to do quickly in dwc.
So 3 weeks ago i started my grow. RO water, GH flora series with calmag and hydrogaurd, nothing else. Im growing bruce banner #3 from feminized seed which i started in root riot plugs, later to be moved into hydroton. Everything started good other than a consistently rising ph for a few days which i posted about. Suspected from hydroton. That eventually stabilized and no harm to plants. They got a great start and looked awesome up until a week ago. 5 plants total, one still doing awesome, 2 doing kinda ok and 2 are extremely wilted like a plant in dirt that has either too much water or not enough. I mentioned my nutrients which are sitting around 350ppm, ph very closely monitored and kept at 5.8, res temps stay between 62 and 68, never been higher. Using a 1350gph 80watt air pump on 5 buckets, 2 large stones each so more than enough air. Air temp at 75 during day, 68 at night (18/6), humidity has been a bit of a battle. Started down around 25 for first week, then added a humidifier and i can get it up to low 50s now. I would say my environment for plants as well as roots is pretty dang good. Its possible i pushed a bit too high on ppm too soon, got up to 425 or so. At first i thought thats what was going on with the 2 wilted plants. A bit dark green and leaves clawing a bit, but that claw quickly went to full on wilt. I did back those 2 down to 300ppm but its been 3 days with no change, maybe getting worse. To me it looks like a root issue like pythium cutting off supply to the plant, but the roots look fine, no smell, even new growth over last couple days, although very slow. Growth of the plamts themselves has completely stopped. I really just dont get it. The 2 that look kinda ok could just be recovering from a bit of mild nute burn, but i have no idea whats happening with the wilted ones. First pic is all 5, good plant on right, 2 bad ones in back, 2 ok ones in front. Second pic best plant, third pic worst plant, The pic of roots is the most wilted plant, not a huge amount but they look fine to me. Any ideas?
