Are my plants dying?

wowzerz

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Posted before, thinking mabye my clones were getting too much water
My clones have been in their new DWC homes for about 3 days now. Only problem is they are looking a little droopy. I am thinking they are getting too much water(from bubbles splashing water up and soaking the rockwool). I haven't had to water them once, every time I check, the rockwool is soaked (they are in rockwool in hydraton, top of rockwool flush with top of hydraton) I had the water line right at the bottom of the pots, but have dropped the water level twic now. The water lvl is at about an inch below the pot bottems now. But they are still soaked. One has a root about 2 inches out of the pot and is the only one looking healthy. I am wondering if I should remove them from the hydraton and take off some of the rockwool, or if I should continue dropping the water level. Any sugestions? thanks.
They have since gotten worse, now the leaves are curling up, and the changing colors, darkinging around each blade etc. here are pic.
and also
, roots are doing amazing, they are growing out of the net pots everywhere... but the leaves are still drooping, and some of them are curling, like a claw, I thought maybe my nute strength is too high, 5ml gro, 2.5ml micro, 2.5ml bloom, 2.5ml diamond necter per gal. with the PPM around 400 in all buckets. I have emptied out some of the nute water and replaced with RO water. now bringing the ppm down in most buckets to around 350 Have been keeping the PH aat around 5.8 lowering it about once a day. What am I doing wrong here? too much nutes too early? The roots are looking amazing, i cant beleive the leaves look like crap, and are the stems suposed to be purple? They where that color when i got them, but I was reading somewhere that purple stems are a sign of some kind of deficiency? Any info or insight is much appritiated. these pics are from day 7 of being in the bubbler.

ANY HELP ius MUCH appritiated!!! am I giving them too much nutes? Or is this a lack of nutes??
 

onthedl0008

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Hey Bro do u have roots in the water yet man? Where is ur water level at now? And whats ur PPM in the res? Must stay 5.8 bro thats the most critical part..Lets start here.. Ur plants arent dying man we'll get u fixed up bro.
 

wowzerz

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Hey Bro do u have roots in the water yet man? Where is ur water level at now? And whats ur PPM in the res? Must stay 5.8 bro thats the most critical part..Lets start here.. Ur plants arent dying man we'll get u fixed up bro.
Thanks for the reply, The roots are in the water, and water lvl is now about 2-3 inches below the net pots, and I just swapped out the Nute water, for just straight water, so I checked, and the PPM is just about 0, it was around 8 PPM. and I have been checking the PH once per day and its usualy around 6.5 or less and I drop it down to 5.8
 

wowzerz

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Hey Bro do u have roots in the water yet man? Where is ur water level at now? And whats ur PPM in the res? Must stay 5.8 bro thats the most critical part..Lets start here.. Ur plants arent dying man we'll get u fixed up bro.
Thanks for the reply, The roots are in the water, and water lvl is now about 2-3 inches below the net pots, and I just swapped out the Nute water, for just straight water, so I checked, and the PPM is just about 0, it was around 8 PPM. and I have been checking the PH once per day and its usualy around 6.5 or less and I drop it down to 5.8
 

onthedl0008

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OK bro check it out.. Nute ur water to at least 500 ppm man.. Ur plants are established and have roots in the water and are ready to eat mang.
Maintain ur PH as close to 5.8 as possible.. Once u nute the water this will become more simple as the res get's established..

Here's the twist i think ur looking at..Yup they started too wet man we have all done it but it looks like u got that point on lock down now..
Raise ur water level back up to about a half inch below the pot until ur plants have established respectable root structure growth..
Its gonna help manipulate them to grow more roots out and into the water to feed on the nutes u r giving them.
Ur past the rediculously hard and water logged stuff rockwool tends to pose in the system u should be good to go if u follow those directions..
Get some peat plug's next time or make sure u dont water log the wool man u will be fine.
Hope that helps. Let me know how it works out bro.
Peace.
 

wowzerz

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OK bro check it out.. Nute ur water to at least 500 ppm man.. Ur plants are established and have roots in the water and are ready to eat mang.
Maintain ur PH as close to 5.8 as possible.. Once u nute the water this will become more simple as the res get's established..

Here's the twist i think ur looking at..Yup they started too wet man we have all done it but it looks like u got that point on lock down now..
Raise ur water level back up to about a half inch below the pot until ur plants have established respectable root structure growth..
Its gonna help manipulate them to grow more roots out and into the water to feed on the nutes u r giving them.
Ur past the rediculously hard and water logged stuff rockwool tends to pose in the system u should be good to go if u follow those directions..
Get some peat plug's next time or make sure u dont water log the wool man u will be fine.
Hope that helps. Let me know how it works out bro.
Peace.
So you think that the overwatering from the soaked rockwool would cause my leaves to look like that? I will do as you suggested and up the water lvl and add nutes back in. thanks a ,lot for the help.
 

onthedl0008

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Yes i think that over watering caused ur plants leaves to initially droop like in the previous thread.
I think that what is causing ur plants leaves to get yellow tips and or look like they are is due to lack of feeding. Which is natural for happens alot for clones to use built up nutes stored in their leaves to establish roo growth which is whats happening that u see.
By feeding and raising ur levels up a bit to force more root growth and more uptake of nutrients ur plants will come back around.
Ur plants dont look too bad man. Actually alot better than alot ive seen.So + Reps on that for sure man.
Its a beggining curve man once u get things fine tuned u will know what ur plants look like and what they need and be able to react faster.
Even then ur going to end up with yellow tips on ur leaves..
Be Easy Man. They are weeds.
Plants are going to be fine.
Hope that helps.
 
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