Plant looks diseased

[Vasdef]

Hi all. I have a Wedding Cake plant thats struggling.
To my untrained eye it looks like a Calcium deficiency. Its about 10 weeks old.
I changed the water the other day, I got a 3.1 EC reading. Next day it was at 3.5. Water level appears the same, im assuming the plants on lockdown, not taking any nutes. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
(I snipped a bunch of leaves off the plant, so the pics don't look as bad.

 

[lusidghost]

It looks like lockout to me as well. I've never grown in DWC, but I'd imagine dropping the EC low until it burns off the excess in its system would be a good move.

 

[NanoGadget]

Why are you feeding over 3 EC? I ran dwc and rdwc for a couple years and I don't think I was ever over 2 EC and that was with large plants in full flower.

 

[thenasty1]

yeah youre frying that thing. overfeeding which is causing various lockouts
make up a new res around 2 ec and see what she thinks about it. generally more light=higher ec tolerance, but youre clearly past that on this plant

 

[Herb & Suds]

Why are you feeding over 3 EC? I ran dwc and rdwc for a couple years and I don't think I was ever over 2 EC and that was with large plants in full flower.

It’s all the rage on YouTube

 

[NanoGadget]

It’s all the rage on YouTube

from what I've seen of most of these YouTube growers plants I'm not sure why anyone would look to them for guidance. it's basically shitty, fried plants and commercials for garbage lights and snake oil nutrients.

 

[xtsho]

You're frying your plants with too high of EC.

It’s all the rage on YouTube

Youtube sucks for cannabis growing information. Now there's a whole new crop of growers that think that canuck hack's crispy fried plants look good and they speak of him with admiration when they should be shaking their heads in disgust.

from what I've seen of most of these YouTube growers plants I'm not sure why anyone would look to them for guidance. it's basically shitty, fried plants and commercials for garbage lights and snake oil nutrients.

Makes absolutely no sense. Many toss in some meaningless comment about video editing skills. How in the hell do video editing skills have anything to do with growing a cannabis plant. And from what I've seen most are just crappy drag and drop videos and nothing that requires any skill.

 

[rkymtnman]

like others have said, too high EC. not as much tip burn as i would expect though.

how about the roots? are they healthy? no rot?

ideally you want to see water level dropping alot each day and EC dropping slightly

 

[Billy the Mountain]

like others have said, too high EC. not as much tip burn as i would expect though.

how about the roots? are they healthy? no rot?

ideally you want to see water level dropping alot each day and EC dropping slightly

^^^^
The key to dwc in a single sentence

 

[Budley Doright]

Yes check the roots .

 

[farmerfischer]

What's your PH at?

 

[Vasdef]

Why are you feeding over 3 EC? I ran dwc and rdwc for a couple years and I don't think I was ever over 2 EC and that was with large plants in full flower.

I'm using tap water.

 

[Budley Doright]

Post a pic of the roots and check in the mass as that suffers the most when issues arise.

 

[Vasdef]

 

[70's natureboy]

That's a tough plant, it's taking the abuse pretty well actually.

 

[Vasdef]

Hehe, yeah. Its 10 weeks, only about 13 inches tall.
My guess is a potassium or calcium deficiency, I dont know...

 

[Vasdef]

Why are you feeding over 3 EC? I ran dwc and rdwc for a couple years and I don't think I was ever over 2 EC and that was with large plants in full flower.

The water straight out of my tap is .5 EC. After adding nutes it 3.something.

 

[Vasdef]

What's your PH at?

5.8

 

[potpimp]

That plant is definitely going to die. I give it about 14 more weeks to live.

 

[Vasdef]

That plant is definitely going to die. I give it about 14 more weeks to live.

Actually, my garbage man took her the other day. Fresh start.