Salt build up! Fucked my plant!

Yeah if it was PH you would seen alot of interveinal chlorosis. The chlorosis there is more uniform which is a result of nute lockout or lack of.

If it is a cal/mag def. i'd suggest 1/2 tsp epsom salt per gallon of water. However it wont do much good cause im pretty sure thats a lockout

Look into using a product by House and Garden it's called "drip clean" designed exactly for salt build up. A little bottle will go a long ways because you add very little drip clean to your water. When I used to run top drip I never had to worry about salt build up on my drip lines, it's that good and I would use it with any nute brand as a additive.

jpeg666 said:

Also if you read everything it is not from PH lock out of mag....The freakin build up was up to 5000ppm it was burnt badly....

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If you get a ph lockout from cal or mag (especially mag) it can cause a lockout of P & K and even N a little bit. So the plant will not uptake any of the nute salts and this will cause the buildup. But if your ph has been correct then there must be another reason your plant is not eating.

Have you been adding cal/mag to your RO Water???? Again if its not there and available in a soilless grow it can hamper the uptake of nutes, leading to a buildup.

BeaverHuntr said:

Look into using a product by House and Garden it's called "drip clean" designed exactly for salt build up. A little bottle will go a long ways because you add very little drip clean to your water. When I used to run top drip I never had to worry about salt build up on my drip lines, it's that good and I would use it with any nute brand as a additive.

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I started using florakleen actually

WattSaver said:

If you get a ph lockout from cal or mag (especially mag) it can cause a lockout of P & K and even N a little bit. So the plant will not uptake any of the nute salts and this will cause the buildup. But if your ph has been correct then there must be another reason your plant is not eating.

Have you been adding cal/mag to your RO Water???? Again if its not there and available in a soilless grow it can hamper the uptake of nutes, leading to a buildup.

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Yea they got everything they needed, If you look at my older posts and journals you can see they were really healthy and doing perfect. All that happened was I wasn't flushing the rockwool on a regular basis cause I didn't know you needed to. So the nutes just kept building up and eventually the bomb dropped and decimated my flowers

jpeg666 said:

I started using florakleen actually

Yea they got everything they needed, If you look at my older posts and journals you can see they were really healthy and doing perfect. All that happened was I wasn't flushing the rockwool on a regular basis cause I didn't know you needed to. So the nutes just kept building up and eventually the bomb dropped and decimated my flowers

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Florakleen is okay I used to use when I flushed at the end of grow. Drip clean works so much better if you see it or ever order it you wont ever use Florakleen again.. Good luck though dude you seem to have it all under control.

man, sorry to see this jpegg... but we got to learn with the good and the bad. I know about lock out as it happened to me as well.. I know you will recover just fine!!! good luck man. This is the main reason why I bought a TDS my self... just waiting for it to come in.

Hey I just wanted to let you know, this has happened to me and until I saw it here, under this heading, I had no idea it was salt buildup that caused that. You for sure taught me something today. For what its worth, Thanks

Alright well I think she is actually started to eat herself now and is starving because most of the leaves were unaffected by the big burn but now since I flushed everything out and have been giving straight water for about a week the lower leaves are yellowing fast, like overnight there is a big difference in color on a couple leaves. Some came off real easy too wiggling them back and forth which means they are being sucked dry for food.



So I guess I can start feeding her small amounts but now I do not know what to feed her... I have so many different things I don't know what would be easiest on her right now, and I don't exactly know what she needs....