Plant drinking but not eating!

Hi guys,

My plant is in week 4 flower. I am growing it in a 5 gal bubble bucket. The past 3 days the EC has only been rising! On Saturday the EC was 1.6 so I added 1 gal RO water to make it 1.1. The next day the plant drank one gallon of water and I checked the EC it was back to 1.6, so I added another gallon of RO water to make it 1.1....This has happened four days in a row!! its not eating???? The PH is between 6.2-5.4.

The plant looks pretty healthy, the only issue is perhaps its a bit warm in the tent and its top leaves have bleached a bit from the light, otherwise nothing major....


Any help please??

Thanks!

porky-

How does the plant look? Excessive evaporation will raise ec as well.Looks healthy...hard to see the pic with the burple..

plant looks pretty good...growth seems slow but maybe I am imagining it.....but the plant is perky and looks happy...just its not eating????? only drinking....

Its a common reaction to overferting.

what do you suggest?? An EC of 1.1 is not very high....??

Maybe u have salt built up

I grow in a 5 gal bubblebucket as well. I had this same thing happen last grow, after researching around it sounds like it's an overfert(you are giving more nutes than it can drink) issue.

My understanding is, your ppm(or EC) is rising because your plant is drinking more water than it is nutes. So let's say you put 100ml of nutes in 1 gallon of water, now you put 100ml of nutes is 10 gallons of water. The ppm(or EC) is going to be higher in the solution with the higher percentage of nute to water ratio(the 100ml of nutes in 1 gal). So back to what I said, as your plant drinks the water but not the nutes it keeps the same amount of nutes but less water so the ratio skews and causes a higher ppm(or EC). Your stats actually give the perfect example, you can figure that your plant drank that whole extra gallon of water without intaking any of the nutes, hence bringing it back to 1.6.

My last grow didn't like to go as high as my grow before it so you really have to determine your feeding schedule by how your current strain reacts. For example my first plant excepted up to 1100ppm(or 1.1 EC with a NaCl conversion) but my second plant didn't want to go over like 800(or .8 EC) without burning.

All in all, drop back the nutes.

Ok, I will drop nutes to 0.8EC.

thanks for the help