Quick Question...

[RCope47]

Sorry guys, I have to leave for work soon, know the answer is on here, dont have time to look. These sprouted on Dec 19, 1 has died, 4 left, seem to be growing very slowly, only one plant has broken through the netpot about 1/4", then there is the runt, The big one and the runt, the leaves have started to curl and get crispy on the ends, My water is right at 6PH, 68 degree res, ppm are at 512, (tap tested at 80+) FF Grow Big at 1/4 strength, they looked like they were starting to go, then slowed, I have my pump/solution running 30 min every 4 hrs, the RW was getting real soggy, so I cut back, what am I doing wrong here....thanks

 

[JonnyBtreed]

ppm is WAY TO HIGH for those little sprouts... shouldn't be over 200 or so for them. change the res cut back on your nutes and you should be fine. But to answer your question they are over fertilized.

 

[Illegal Smile]

And it sounds like they were too wet and have not recovered from that.

 

[JonnyBtreed]

Sorry guys, I have to leave for work soon, know the answer is on here, dont have time to look. These sprouted on Dec 19, 1 has died, 4 left, seem to be growing very slowly, only one plant has broken through the netpot about 1/4", then there is the runt, The big one and the runt, the leaves have started to curl and get crispy on the ends, My water is right at 6PH, 68 degree res, ppm are at 512, (tap tested at 80+) FF Grow Big at 1/4 strength, they looked like they were starting to go, then slowed, I have my pump/solution running 30 min every 4 hrs, the RW was getting real soggy, so I cut back, what am I doing wrong here....thanks

Are you using feed lines to the netpots or are you just DWC? And when you say your pump, do you mean water or air?

 

[RCope47]

Are you using feed lines to the netpots or are you just DWC? And when you say your pump, do you mean water or air?

Water pump into the net pots,lot of conflicting instructions...run the pump continuously, don't run the pump continuosly, 1/4 nutes after sprouts has 4 leaves, no nutes for 2 weeks...everyone seems to have their own way...all I know is these RW cubes are soggy all the time,and I can't belive that is correct, shouldn't the roots look for water? I've seen other posts where tap roots have reached the res in a few days! WTF? All I know is everything you do with hydro had better be dead on, or your gonna have problems, I'm havin fun though, Ill figure it out eventually

 

[Illegal Smile]

Water pump into the net pots,lot of conflicting instructions...run the pump continuously, don't run the pump continuosly, 1/4 nutes after sprouts has 4 leaves, no nutes for 2 weeks...everyone seems to have their own way...all I know is these RW cubes are soggy all the time,and I can't belive that is correct, shouldn't the roots look for water? I've seen other posts where tap roots have reached the res in a few days! WTF? All I know is everything you do with hydro had better be dead on, or your gonna have problems, I'm havin fun though, Ill figure it out eventually

If you must pump water to the cubes don't run the tube to the top of the cube. Have it spit onto the side of the cube halfway down. That alone will lessen the wetness on top which is where it causes problems. The problem with the pump and tubes is that it is very hard to adjust wetness and then keep it constant.