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Lionhead

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I should probably say aswell I'm watering with 2 litres once the soil probe indicates I'm in the red for moisture. And the pot is noticeably lighter. This last watering took nearly a week before it needed water again
 
Star Dog

Star Dog

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Fwiw I thought t looks like it's been pretty dry at the top, ime the perlite goes brown/green, get a pencil/stick and lift/dig down an inch and check its damp.
I didn't think it worth mentioning but I see your relying on a probe, just double check.
 
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Lionhead

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Star Dog said:
Fwiw I thought t looks like it's been pretty dry at the top, ime the perlite goes brown/green, get a pencil/stick and lift/dig down an inch and check its damp.
I didn't think it worth mentioning but I see your relying on a probe, just double check.
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Yeah I'm checking with my fingers and the probe tbh.

In the pics I'd just given it a litre instead of 2 litres and just around the roots not spread over the whole pot. Didn't want to dump a full 2 litres of soft water on it lol and have it process water lacking in calcium and magnesium again for another week.

I'll top it up another litre when I get the supplement on Friday
 
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Lionhead

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Ok so.

My water is reading 50ppm after filtering through a Brita filter. Added calmag at the recommended dose per litre which brought the ppm up to 78ppm.....should I be balancing my base ppm to 100/150 before adding nutrients?

After adding the recommended amount of nutrients and ph balancing back up to good levels here are my ppm/ec/ph readouts. I'm feeding 2 litres of water.

In: ppm: 540. Ec:1159. Ph: 6.4.
Run off: ppm: 1007 Ec: 2204. Ph: 6.4.
 
Star Dog

Star Dog

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If I'm reading this right you need to back of with nutrient, cool the room or double your run off amount, with coco your run of should be below its original strength.
 
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Lionhead

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Star Dog said:
If I'm reading this right you need to back of with nutrient, cool the room or double your run off amount, with coco your run of should be below its original strength.
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Yeah I thought getting basically doubling of my ppm and ec looked a little off...

I'm not growing in coco though its soil thats purposefully very low/devoid of added nutrients.

I also noticed I am getting the very tips of the two first proper leaves going funny, like maybe the begginings of burn, I'm guessing even half/two thirds strength mix for a two litre watering is too much and the plant doesn't have the root system to use it up yet.

I think I'll reduce to one third strength for a couple of weeks on the next watering (right now a 2 litre watering lasts about a week before its dried up properly)

Oh and the room is cool already and the temperature in the tent is always in the 70f zone .
 
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Loz32145

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Lionhead said:
I should probably say aswell I'm watering with 2 litres once the soil probe indicates I'm in the red for moisture. And the pot is noticeably lighter. This last watering took nearly a week before it needed water again
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Those soil probes are unreliable as they can store moisture in the rod.. You end up doing more damage than good as you can damage your root system. I recommend either the lifting the pot method or just turn up a lil bit of soil n check to see if its moist or not. Looks slightly over watered with the droppyness
 
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