First time grower problems.

myke

myke

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Get yourself some hydroton or leca some call it. It’s the small clay pebbles. Take your plant and put it in a pail of water. The peat should all float off. Don’t worry if a little stays stuck. Now fill the void with the clay pebbles. Reset your nutes to 250 ppm make sure water level is just below net pot. Air is pumping cold not hot air. No light leaks.
how is your water?
 
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Jonesin'4Juana

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MICHI-CAN said:
Not that. Just a reminder that the real pros are all in mostly along the west coast. Should be rushing troops there right now.

What is your medium, water source, nutes, buffers and tank and delivery set up?
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I hear you, bud. My medium is peat pellets, water source is bottled spring water, added some floragro and floramicro, I have a 20qt basin. I hope that's all correct info you need. If I missed something I'm sorry, still learning.
 
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Jonesin'4Juana

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WattSaver said:
You say hydro, but can I ask whats in the cup? coco, clay beads, peat???
Aside from that, are the leaves crispy on the edges?
To me it looks like a fungal disease. I've seen something like this in my rm yrs ago but not this early in the grow I called it death.
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Peat. The older leaves are a little crispy where brown while the newer ones are kind of yellowing but still pliable.
 
MICHI-CAN

MICHI-CAN

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Jonesin'4Juana said:
I hear you, bud. My medium is peat pellets, water source is bottled spring water, added some floragro and floramicro, I have a 20qt basin. I hope that's all correct info you need. If I missed something I'm sorry, still learning.
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The peat needs to go in my opinion. Does not dry. Fun but do able. Sink sprayer with tepid water. Replace with coco, coco perlite mix. Just keep the roots wet throughout the process. Should also empty and clean tank. Add a fungicide. No idea what the current rage is. The tap water chlorine will help sterilize the roots. And the lants can be suspended in an aerated bucket overnight if needed.
 
myke

myke

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I think we’re all confused I know I am. Lol. Ok so I see now your in like 2” net pots correct. Peat pellets and one is rockwool it looks like. Spring water I’m not so sure is good. Should have all the minerals I guess. Do you have a ppm meter also pH. I hate to say the calmag word but either your pH is off or your nutes aren’t mixed right. Did you maybe pour pH down in without mixing it first?
 
MICHI-CAN

MICHI-CAN

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myke said:
I think we’re all confused I know I am. Lol. Ok so I see now your in like 2” net pots correct. Peat pellets and one is rockwool it looks like. Spring water I’m not so sure is good. Should have all the minerals I guess. Do you have a ppm meter also pH. I hate to say the calmag word but either your pH is off or your nutes aren’t mixed right. Did you maybe pour pH down in without mixing it first?
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I see that to. I'm gonna smoke and watch. I tried. Dirt digger . Sorry.
 
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Jonesin'4Juana

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myke said:
I think we’re all confused I know I am. Lol. Ok so I see now your in like 2” net pots correct. Peat pellets and one is rockwool it looks like. Spring water I’m not so sure is good. Should have all the minerals I guess. Do you have a ppm meter also pH. I hate to say the calmag word but either your pH is off or your nutes aren’t mixed right. Did you maybe pour pH down in without mixing it first?
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That is correct on the net pots. It's all peat. I do have a ppm meter and it says my basin is at 250ppm right now and I have tested pH and it reads 6. I did put pH solution right in the water when I adjusted pH levels though I did dilute nutes before applying.
 
myke

myke

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Ok so you need a layer of clay pebbles between the net pot and your peat/rockwool. The water bubbles splash up wetting the clay and the roots seek the moisture from them. You can’t have bubbles hitting the bottom of the medium. So you need bigger net pots.
 
xtsho

xtsho

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What are you using to check pH?

I say get a few 3 gallon pots and some coco coir or just grow in soil and transplant those into one of those asap and try and get them healthy. Go back to hydro at a later date.

Good luck.
 
myke

myke

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xtsho said:
What are you using to check pH?

I say get a few 3 gallon pots and some coco coir or just grow in soil and transplant those into one of those asap and try and get them healthy. Go back to hydro at a later date.

Good luck.
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They’ll recover just fine just needs some tweaking.
 
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Jonesin'4Juana

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myke said:
What is the system just a tote with a lid??
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Like keep the peat but add clay pebbles under it or eliminate the peat entirely? Bigger net cups as in wider or deeper? The setup I bought is the Yield Machine Max if you wanna look it up. I believe it's a 20qt sterilite bin that has a hole in the side for the air tube for the bubble rock.
 
myke

myke

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Ok so what you need is a bigger net pots at 5” this means a bigger hole in your lid. Put approx 2” of clay pebbles in then your little net pot and back fill around. Now if you can get your plug out of your net pot with out tearing roots then do that.
 
myke

myke

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xtsho said:
Until the next problem. A lot of new growers go straight to hydro but I always tell people I know that have never grown to just get a bag of good soil for the first grow and get at least 1 under their belt.
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I’m the other way. I first started in rdwc never seen a yellow leaf until I saw dirt plants. There’s just a few simple rules in hydro once you get this down it’s very easy.
 
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