PadawanWarrior
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I don't know anything about that stuff, but I'd check pH first.
Springtails
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Lochness1980
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Phing at 6.0
Lochness1980
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Any solutions at all anyone?
UpstateRecGrower
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Soft nute flush how long ago? If I thought I was having lockout I would flush with PH 5.8 until my runoff was between .5-1 EC and wait until the next day to feed again at a lower strength that before. Do you typically water to runoff? What EC do you normally feed?
Lochness1980
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I've been feeding around .8 but noticed the EC rising so I soft nute flushed them 4 2 days and still nothing... bottom leaves are turning g brownish
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UpstateRecGrower
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ok, .8 is weak, less than I've ever been able to feed. Newer coco can have a high runoff EC on its own it could just be that you're underfeeding at .8 and by feeding even weaker for the last 2 days it may even be a little worse now. I would water through 1.5 EC nutes, use the volume of the pot as how much to water through, so if they're 2 gallon pots water in 2 gallons, that should flush out all your weak nutes or anything else, pretty sure those plants are just hungry.
UpstateRecGrower
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I just skimmed through the thread, did this happen shortly after the h2o2? Perhaps the peroxide damaged the roots? Are you normally able to feed at .8ec without issues?
Lochness1980
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I didn't use a load of h2o2 less than halt the recommended 1/3 but seemed OK for a while after this has literally just happened in the last 4 days... I initially thought it was rust spots but seems like under feeding might be right ... they r in 20ltr fabric pots and I'm giving them 2lt nute flush each but normally 1ltr each gets about 300ml runoff
Lochness1980
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So just flushed the fkn life outta them.... ph is down to 1.2 on 1 and other is 1.8 so hopefully if they don't die they will recover nicely... I used my RO water collected from the dehumidifier to give them a zero salt feed so to be sure to flush all the collective salt build up... fingers crossed ppl
Nope_49595933949
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The ph is 1.8?
Star Dog
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What strength are you feeding it and how often?
Lochness1980
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Was
Was .8 but started to show signs of bute burn so started flushing... 1 plant was 2.4 and 2.6 both down now so will start a soft nute feed to see if thay improve
Star Dog
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Ime to be that far out it must be very hot and dry or not been feeding sufficiently to run off?
Lochness1980
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Tomorrow's feed will be 1.2 and 2ltr going into 30ltr pots filled to 25ltr with coco
i got em, and microblift didn't do anything to them....
DoubleAtotheRON
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Interesting… I don’t think the stuff goes bad to my knowledge.
PadawanWarrior
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It's not supposed to. Springtails are usually beneficial in soil as long as there's not a shitload of em. I'm guessing you're in soil, but you should start a thread. I got confused for a sec since you're not the OP.
Pretty sure the microbes will die over time. I think there's a date on it isn't there? I don't remember.
UpstateRecGrower
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I’ve had them Superbad in coco, I think I yielded more in springtail than flower lol. Pretty sure the BTi bacteria in microbe lift doesn’t affect springtails, I looked into what kills them when I had the issue and nothing about BTi came up. I think there is a product but don’t recall what it was, it was on one of those do your own pest control websites and I think it was expensive, could only be bought in larger quantities..
PadawanWarrior
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Ya, it seems most people that have problems with them are in coco. I haven't grown in coco but maybe citric acid or H2O2 could work? I don't know.
UpstateRecGrower
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Id say h2o2 would almost have to work, at least suppress them a bit.. I’m back in rockwool now so idc.. idk it’s weird like somehow they must come already inside of the bagged coco?