asaph
Well-Known Member
it goes like this: toxicity leads to deficiency. (deficiency leads to symptoms. symptoms lead to suffering.)
you overfeeding your plants has been locking out nutes on them. too much of one element (usually N) hinders the plant's ability to take others (such as p/k, cal and mag). This can also result from pH off, but in this case, 1200ppm does indeed sound too high. never go by the manufacturer's instructions. I give my plants 7 weeks in flowering a ppm of 800-1000. your plants can make do with 600-800 I think. If you're on a nute regimen that works, don't up it just because the table says so. wait for your plant to give you a very slow indication of N def (uniform yellowing of bottom leaves), then up it slowly. Unless you really know what you're doing, and know your strain very well.
it's better to use RO water (but know that it usually requires an addition of mag), because it gives you more room to put balanced nutes in the ppm that your plant can afford. but your problem was not the water. You probably have some salt residue in your medium, so flush it well, then go on feeding as usual, and even go lower on the ppm (down to 500-600), just for a while so it can bounce off. if it will be hungry you will start seeing different symptoms and will be able to up it carefully again.
you overfeeding your plants has been locking out nutes on them. too much of one element (usually N) hinders the plant's ability to take others (such as p/k, cal and mag). This can also result from pH off, but in this case, 1200ppm does indeed sound too high. never go by the manufacturer's instructions. I give my plants 7 weeks in flowering a ppm of 800-1000. your plants can make do with 600-800 I think. If you're on a nute regimen that works, don't up it just because the table says so. wait for your plant to give you a very slow indication of N def (uniform yellowing of bottom leaves), then up it slowly. Unless you really know what you're doing, and know your strain very well.
it's better to use RO water (but know that it usually requires an addition of mag), because it gives you more room to put balanced nutes in the ppm that your plant can afford. but your problem was not the water. You probably have some salt residue in your medium, so flush it well, then go on feeding as usual, and even go lower on the ppm (down to 500-600), just for a while so it can bounce off. if it will be hungry you will start seeing different symptoms and will be able to up it carefully again.