Nute burn clawing falling ph static water level rising ppm

DwcWeaver

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Hey first time poster and first time dwc.
I am currently starting tomorrow on week 6 of flower and at my wits end this has been a nightmare all the way through. I was just reading now about different water and ec and ph levels and what it means but the problem I'm having is since I started growing this plant (white Russian kush in 32L of water with gh trio nutes floralicious plus and voodoo single plant in a 4x4 tent with a 2000w bestva led) it's always raised the ppm and I've had to add water. (Not realizing until today this was an issue) It was doing great until week 3 of flower it started showing "the claw" and leaves outside the direct light turning dark green and flattening out so I decided to back off the nitrogen a bit by adding half the amount off the chart of macro and the rest normal bringing my ppm from around 1400 to around 1050 and that seemed to help until this week when the tips started showing signs of burn but the red stems and clawing have cleared up. Today I'm finding signs of what I think are ph fluctuations on the leaves as the last 4 days I have had to add ph up because it's been steadily dropping every day from around 5.8 to 5.5 or 5.4 when until this point I had to add ph down every time I added water to get it normal again as my water is around 7.5 So my current predicament is...

-The water level drops quite a bit after a fresh nute change for about 2 days (about 2 inches in a 68L tub) then is only dropping about the 2L of water I have to add every day to bring the ppm back to what I set it to for the rest of the week.
-The ph is steadily dropping daily for the last 4 or 5 days
-The ppm is raising around 100 ppm daily.

From what I've just read today people are saying the nutes are too low if the water level is static, ph is falling and ppm is rising but my question is what about the alleged nitrogen toxicity it seemed to show before I lowered the nutes? If its really too low on nutes why was I showing signs of nitrogen toxicity if Static water, ph dropping, ppm raising= too low nutes
I have attached a few pictures of the trouble I'm having.
Also I have a calibrated bluelab guardian that I'm sure is bang on.
 

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Your solution is not balanced for what the plant wants. After those 2 days its unbalanced. You need to look more at npk ratios if you're going to mix and match.
 
Thanks for the reply! No contesting I'm still a nube I've spent days upon hours researching every aspect of this whole setup but it's a lot to take in especially if you dont have direct contact with someone that knows.
I'm following guides off the gh website for the flora series simple program the only deviation is instead of rapid start I started using voodoo. Any direction you could point me so i could get the info I'd need for nutrient balancing would be much appreciated. There's so many opinions and methods it's hard to get a starting direction on this first grow.
 
If ppm is rising, plants aren't eating it, so some people think you need to add more nutes? I would think just the opposite.
that's what iv'e always thought. but if you look at that chart with all 3 variables, it says that you should raise EC. something about there is not enough EC in the nute solution so the plant "off-gasses" for lack of a better word nutes into the solution. so you should raise your EC. didn't make any sense to me and the lady that was following those directions, i don't think ever came back so i'm not sure it worked.

lowering EC to the point where they start eating again always worked for me.
 
Thanks for the reply! No contesting I'm still a nube I've spent days upon hours researching every aspect of this whole setup but it's a lot to take in especially if you dont have direct contact with someone that knows.
I'm following guides off the gh website for the flora series simple program the only deviation is instead of rapid start I started using voodoo. Any direction you could point me so i could get the info I'd need for nutrient balancing would be much appreciated. There's so many opinions and methods it's hard to get a starting direction on this first grow.
since you have the nutes, try the Lucas formula (1:2 ratio of micro/bloom, no grow used). I also think your ppms are way too strong too. try 5mL micro and 10mL bloom per gallon (no floralicious) and see what happens. if the ppms start dropping, go up to 6/12 or 7/14 or 8/16 at the highest.
 
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