Why are my leaves doing this. Overwatering?

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Nutty sKunK said:
What feeding them? Drooping leaves can be a result of the medium being too salty.
Drawing moisture out the plant through osmosis. You get tired looking leaves as a result.

If feeding bottles nutes it can be a good idea to flush now and again to avoid salt buildup and pH swings.
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I’m feeding silica flora flex and roots excel gold by house and garden .

I flush every so often.

my run off I check daily and if there’s a build up on one of my tables I certainly my am not seeing it in the run off yet.

thats kinda why I’m stumped.
 
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Nutty sKunK said:
What feeding them? Drooping leaves can be a result of the medium being too salty.
Drawing moisture out the plant through osmosis. You get tired looking leaves as a result.

If feeding bottles nutes it can be a good idea to flush now and again to avoid salt buildup and pH swings.
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Is it possible I’m feeding to strong but maintaining run off information that reflects a happy eating plant?
I flush once every couple weeks and I usually don’t need to ..... feed feed feed coco
 
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Nutty sKunK said:
What feeding them? Drooping leaves can be a result of the medium being too salty.
Drawing moisture out the plant through osmosis. You get tired looking leaves as a result.

If feeding bottles nutes it can be a good idea to flush now and again to avoid salt buildup and pH swings.
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They get fed right now 1.8. .4 or so CaMg and the rest flora flex base.. 1 x daily right now was planning on moving to 2 x daily soon but things are cooperating so can’t force it.
My run off is monitored every watering for ex I just fed at a 1.8-1.9 w/ average run off for that table ( 9 plants) was 750 so....... idk lol
 
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Nutty sKunK said:
What feeding them? Drooping leaves can be a result of the medium being too salty.
Drawing moisture out the plant through osmosis. You get tired looking leaves as a result.

If feeding bottles nutes it can be a good idea to flush now and again to avoid salt buildup and pH swings.
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If I’m pushing them to hard Nutrionally all the signs are missing.
.Smoke said:
I run 2kW in a 4x8 and a couple others and the only time I've seen mine like that would be a combo of the 82f and 60+rh area. If I get up there I have issues like that too.

It doesn't seem like much, but if you can get that to 75f 50-55 max RH, I think your ladies would blow up.

Nice looking grow.
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I think smoke actually pegged the situation and I’m dropping my temps and humidity despite the worry I face with the now would be cooler led canopy
 
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DCcan said:
Before you laugh it off look again. Did you look closely?
Maybe those are root aphid and not fungus gnats, can you get some good shots of the sticky paper?
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I will take photos of traps.
I am 99 percent certain I am dealing with fungus gnats. But I will take photos of my traps
 
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BloomFielder said:
EC?
re reading post, I would highly recommend leaving that botanic bunk and switch over to RAW calcium.
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I’ll have to do some research on the product your mentioning but I just had a beautiful run photo above with botanicare and it did me just fine. It was phased out almost completely by mid flower and I run RO water.

........... I believe this all comes down to vpd and transpiration.
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Maineconnect said:
They get fed right now 1.8. .4 or so CaMg and the rest flora flex base.. 1 x daily right now was planning on moving to 2 x daily soon but things are cooperating so can’t force it.
My run off is monitored every watering for ex I just fed at a 1.8-1.9 w/ average run off for that table ( 9 plants) was 750 so....... idk lol
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How much are you flushing them? Flushing is 3-4x the pot volume of water.

It takes time during a flush to get those salts out. so the first flush will have a lower PPM than the 2nd or 3rd ‘IF’ salt build up is an issue.

I’d flush one plant and monitor the EC until it has dropped right down or if there is a spike. Eliminates the salt issues. Then give it a balanced pH feed.

Coco as far as I’m aware is more reliant on pHing your input solution.
 
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I'm surprised to see fungus gnats in a coco grow (assuming that is what's on your sticky cards). Is your medium draining well? I've seen bumpy leaves from over watering but like you say, it's hard to over water mature plants in coco.
 
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Nutty sKunK said:
How much are you flushing them? Flushing is 3-4x the pot volume of water.

It takes time during a flush to get those salts out. so the first flush will have a lower PPM than the 2nd or 3rd ‘IF’ salt build up is an issue.

I’d flush one plant and monitor the EC until it has dropped right down or if there is a spike. Eliminates the salt issues. Then give it a balanced pH feed.

Coco as far as I’m aware is more reliant on pHing your input solution.
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Ya I’ll check again but here’s my tables
This morning
6.0 930 ppm in———> avg 750 out.

salt build up? I don’t think
 
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SheeshM said:
I'm surprised to see fungus gnats in a coco grow (assuming that is what's on your sticky cards). Is your medium draining well? I've seen bumpy leaves from over watering but like you say, it's hard to over water mature plants in coco.
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It’s draining as well as it can. I get 10-20 percent run off each irrigation.
each irrigation I monitor run off ec.
Sucks last cycle I was watering my girls 2x a day at this point. This round is just not drinking the same.
 
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Nutty sKunK said:
I would then suspect high pH. You’re feeding at 6? Is your water alkaline?
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I use RO and it starts nuetral.
I was feeding 5.5-5.9 then looked at my run off ph when problems started to arise and my run off has consistently been south of 5.8 as low as 5.3-5.4.

I dropped my
Temps and humidity last lights on and am going to do the same today and observe.
It’s purple Afghan kush so maybe at the end of the day it just likes it a bit drier?

plants seem wet like transpiration is an issue?
I’m stumped
 
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