Plants are lime Green

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StuffedOrange

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I know that you are not supposed to have two plants in one pot. It is just that my setup limits the amount of pots I can have inside the grow area. This pot is fairly big though about a foot deep and 3/4 of a foot in diameter. These plants are an unknown strain and I believe that they are auto flowers as one of them is already flowering under 24 hour light!

I believe that they have a deficiency. I have been supplying them with epsom salts. I'm thinking this is either a Calcium deficiency or a zinc deficiency. I'm using RO water to feed them. I'm not using any calmag.

Since the problem I believe is Zinc would using Alg-a-mic from BIOBIZZ help

What are your opinions! Thanks a lot!


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Okay so I finally figured out what where the problems wit them being lime green. My tap water is at 8.5 ph when it comes out. So I lowered it down a to 5.8-6.0 and started watering with it. I have also found out that the TDS of the run off is 5300 (INSANE)
I'm starting to flush slowly. Dropped the Run off to 3000 right now. How could the TDS get this high? I'm always feeding it at like 1000 ppm. I will flush a little more tomorrow and try and drop it back to the normal ranges.
Now my plants are getting more green and I have noticed a huge boost in growth!
I have also added some CalMag and Liquid Silicon to my feed.

One problem is left though
The Ph of my runoff is still coming out at 6.5-7
 
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StuffedOrange

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I'm having a problem guys. I have flushed twice with just ph adjusted water and the run off ph still won't go bellow 6.5 What is the problem here?
 
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I also did a small experiment. I took some coco and placed it in a plastic cup and then flushed with a ph of 3.5 lol then I took the run off and the PH WAS 6.5 HOW CAN THIS BE HAPPENING?
 
coreywebster

coreywebster

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Worry about the high EC run off. Not the PH of the run off.
What brand coco is it? Bagged and pre washed and buffered or dehydrated block?
What nutrients are you feeding?
 
zypheruk

zypheruk

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Fuck the Epsom salts out. You have locked them out with the Epsom salts, so just water them with ph adjusted water and a if your RO water reads zero ec then add calmag as calcium and magnesium have to be used together and until your EC=0.4 then add enough grow nutrients to bring it up to EC0.7. Keep pouring that mix into the pot till your EC is the same as going in. IE a flush but with calmag and low nutrients, never flush with just water, you will fuck the coco up. Once you see they need more grow nutrients then gradually up the strength. PH6.0 is perfect for coco just make sure its 6.0 when feeding and forget the run off ph.
That will fix your problem if you listen.
 
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zypheruk said:
Fuck the Epsom salts out. You have locked them out with the Epsom salts, so just water them with ph adjusted water and a if your RO water reads zero ec then add calmag as calcium and magnesium have to be used together and until your EC=0.4 then add enough grow nutrients to bring it up to EC0.7. Keep pouring that mix into the pot till your EC is the same as going in. IE a flush but with calmag and low nutrients, never flush with just water, you will fuck the coco up. Once you see they need more grow nutrients then gradually up the strength. PH6.0 is perfect for coco just make sure its 6.0 when feeding and forget the run off ph.
That will fix your problem if you listen.
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Alright I will make those changes in my next watering. Thanks a lot
 
zypheruk

zypheruk

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as above run it through it until every thing is in line, even if it takes 10 times what the pot holds. Not quick to do, but it resets the coco and viola happy plants.
 
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StuffedOrange

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The plants are really recovering and I'm seeing massive boosts in them getting green again and they are growing really fast. They are almost back to normal. Should I drop it more from 2500 or should I just leave it? I'm using BioBizz organic fertilizers, I heard with their products the runoff ppm does not matter?
 
zypheruk

zypheruk

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Organics well I no nothing about them, that should have been the first thing I asked. So you may ask someone who grows organic. Sorry...
 
whitebb2727

whitebb2727

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StuffedOrange said:
Okay so I finally figured out what where the problems wit them being lime green. My tap water is at 8.5 ph when it comes out. So I lowered it down a to 5.8-6.0 and started watering with it. I have also found out that the TDS of the run off is 5300 (INSANE)
I'm starting to flush slowly. Dropped the Run off to 3000 right now. How could the TDS get this high? I'm always feeding it at like 1000 ppm. I will flush a little more tomorrow and try and drop it back to the normal ranges.
Now my plants are getting more green and I have noticed a huge boost in growth!
I have also added some CalMag and Liquid Silicon to my feed.

One problem is left though
The Ph of my runoff is still coming out at 6.5-7
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You are over feeding for one and not watering until good run off on top of it. That's why they are looking that way.

Cut your feed way back.
 
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