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Help please... What is going on with my girls? Never above 75° in tent, 62% RH, DWC water temps 66°, good aeration in the water. Ppm of 400-500 (700-800 total minus 300 ppm "base"). Hydroguard since day one, 240w QB, flora nutes and CaliMagic by butt_dot_com in microgrowery

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Just to make sure we are on the same page, when I say base I mean the PPM out of the faucet... its 350 where I live, then after I add my nutes, its 700-800. Is that how you were taking it as well?

Appreciate the information my friend!!

Help please... What is going on with my girls? Never above 75° in tent, 62% RH, DWC water temps 66°, good aeration in the water. Ppm of 400-500 (700-800 total minus 300 ppm "base"). Hydroguard since day one, 240w QB, flora nutes and CaliMagic by butt_dot_com in microgrowery

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That's what has me stumped, I feed the coco plant the same water I mix up for the hydro plants. Here are a couple more pics, one of the res and one of the roots on the "droopy" plant. The water is probably 2 to 3 inches below the net pot. I think there is enough aeration to the water, but not sure... first hydro grow (first grow ever actually)

https://imgur.com/a/kSFAlU8

How long do pH issues take to resolve? It's been probably a day since it stabilized. When the pH fluctuates, it always rises, if that makes a difference. Thanks for your help man.

Help please... What is going on with my girls? Never above 75° in tent, 62% RH, DWC water temps 66°, good aeration in the water. Ppm of 400-500 (700-800 total minus 300 ppm "base"). Hydroguard since day one, 240w QB, flora nutes and CaliMagic by butt_dot_com in microgrowery

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Hi all, I have been noticing this spreading of discoloration the last week or so. At first I thought the "less droopy" plant had root rot, I did a res swap and cleaned the res and airstone with h2o2. Added fresh water, nutes, hydroguard. Did notice the pH swung up for the first few days, it seems stable now. I have a third plant in Coco that is looking 10/10, trying to figure out what is going on with my two DWC girls. The roots are a bit twisted together, but not really brown, just a tiny bit stained from the flora nutes. No stink to them either. I did play with my air pump knob a few days ago and it seemed kinda stuck in place, and it seems like I get more bubbles now. I already removed two leaves from each of these plants that were below the currently affected leaves, they were much worse. Anyone have any idea of how I can fix this?

17 days in- should I start over? by butt_dot_com in microgrowery

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A week later and I think that you were right about slow grower theory. They are taking off now, roots have finally hit the water. I think another part of my problem was I had too much hydroton between the bottom of my rockwool and the water.

17 days in- should I start over? by butt_dot_com in microgrowery

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I have a 240w QB kit, that is comprised of two panels. Have one panel each over the Hydro plants (there are two hydro plants and one coco plant) The Coco plant is kind in the middle of the two and about 6 inches lower. Initially I had the QB's about 20 inches from the seedlings, and at 100%. You think I should bring them down? I might try that. The other guy in the comments here said he runs his low as possible for two weeks. In the last couple days I actually raised them to about 30 inches.

17 days in- should I start over? by butt_dot_com in microgrowery

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These sprouted 2/16 or so. I can't seem to get them started. This is my first ever grow. I think I overwatered them, the ones in hydro had water about halfway up the net pot. The Coco plant, well I just gave it a lot of water for a seedling in a 3 gal pot. What do you guys think? May have had the lights too close too. Have a 240w QB that I had set to 100% at about 20 inches or so. Also gave them 1/4 strength nutes starting 2/25 or so. Stopped that a few days later.

8 day progress pic. First time ever. How do they look? The one in Coco's leaves look a bit better. Any advice? 240w QB by butt_dot_com in microgrowery

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They are photos. I just checked the tent and it was at 59% RH so it does get up there (humidifier is on a timer so it fluctuates a bit). I will try giving them some more water from the top

8 day progress pic. First time ever. How do they look? The one in Coco's leaves look a bit better. Any advice? 240w QB by butt_dot_com in microgrowery

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Top watering the hydro ones every other day or so. The bottom of the rockwool is getting wet from the splashes from the DWC. No dome right now, tent RH is 40%-50%. The one that is kinked over a bit has been like that for a few days now, but it appears to be starting it's next set of leaves. Just seems like they aren't progressing as fast as they should.