She just wont mature

Are you PHing the water you are flushing with? If not, you are just throwing off the PH of your medium with every flush.

waterproof808 said:

Are you PHing the water you are flushing with? If not, you are just throwing off the PH of your medium with every flush.

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Yes Ive been PHing the water at 6.8. But the the runoff keeps coming out around 5.8 which I cant figure out. Which is why I thought I had lockout. But it has seemed to recover alot from 3 weeks ago when the burn first happened.

nfhiggs said:

Could be the warm temps too. I generally don't see much purple until I let the temps drop to the low 60's at night.

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Yeah I cant get the temp that low right now. It stays around 69-70 at night and 78 when lights are on.

nfhiggs said:

I won't go back to soil since I started using Dutch Bucket Hydro.

I did fine with GH Maxibloom in my Dutch Buckets. It work and doesn't murder your wallet. Right no I'm trying out MegaCrop and so far she loves it.

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Im used to using deep water culture with GH nutes and have never had a problem. Used the same nutes with soil and have had mixed results. I think I might stick with DWC instead. Soil seems to be less forgiving.

GreenTools said:

Nute burn. Keep on flushing... some phenos won't turn purple, that is just genetic diversity... seems you learned something from this grow, adjust and your next one will be better....

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Yeah I definitely learned from this grow. Gotta find better nutes if I wanna do soil. I will prob just stick with deep water culture. Seems Ive mastered that.

freeadam said:

Yeah I definitely learned from this grow. Gotta find better nutes if I wanna do soil. I will prob just stick with deep water culture. Seems Ive mastered that.

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Maybe that's a good idea. I was going to suggest coco if you wanted to stay with the hydroponic nutes.

freeadam said:

I agree it wasnt the lights. These plants went crazy under them. I constantly have to trim shade leaves. Chances are it was the nutes. So what next.? Is it just causing it a little longer to mature?

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I like the idea of backing the lights down to 10 on /14 off.

Will it finish? IDK sometimes they don't finish completely even with more time.

If you want to continue with soil the 1st area to read up on is the difference between the synthetic nutes you are using and organic nutes.
The idea in soil is not to feed the roots like hydro does. The idea is to feed the microbes in the soil with food they like.
A popular book to understand it is teaming with microbes.

Microbes do not like synthetic ferts. To much will damage them.
So from regular feedings of synthetic ferts you likely have an unhealthy population of microbes in your soil.
The goal is to keep the microbes happy and healthy.