I agree tho, usually I dont have the ppms that high in veg. There about 4 weeks in veg. I will bring it back down to 400-450 and see how they react to that. I check the ppms and ph a few times a day. (I love checking on them and watch them develop.) This is my 3rd grow and never had this issue before but I also never had a led light before either
plants drooping in dwc
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Chief flat foot
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Make sure to it have control on amount of air to each pot. So they all have even air pressure.
I’ve got a clone in a 5 gallon bucket DWC it’s been veg for 3 months it’s 8 foot tall and 9 foot wide.It’s been in bud for a week now and it’s starting to drop.Checked ph it’s 6 water temp stays between 66-68 air temp 72-75 getting plenty of oxygen i’ve got a 20w air pump with 4 inch air stone on bottom also put a 2 inch round stone in extra in can’t figure it out???
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That's a big plant
Would you have any ideas why it’s starting to drop?
What ec/ppm you feeding it? Are they eatting is water level dropping?
Could just be not enough room in bucket for roots and water being that big
I’m just using general hydro
I’m just using the General Hydrponics it’s a 3 part system i’m pretty new at this hydro stuff have been a soil farmer for over 20 years.Do you think it would hurt it to try to move it to like a 15 gallon tote or do you think i should just try to make the best of it?It drinks a gallon and half of water a day.
I checked the ppm on it and it’s 430
sounds pretty low to me could be drooping from osmotic pressure. Have you been writing down ec drops or rises or ph drops or rises?
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I Thought i might have been giving it to much light i’ve
not really the ph i put it in at 6 and a lot of times i’ll check it and it will go up to 6.7 The problem started when it started clawing a little bit so i cut back on the nuts and it started to fix the problem. Then it started dropping after a couple days at first i thought i might be giving it to much light i’ve got to thousand watt hps on it and one 600 watt so i turned down the 1000 watts to 800
2 thousand watters
You said ppm/ec started dropping after you cut your nutes? Might have started to get use to the high feed and needs it upped more if your ppm is dropping fast. Also I like to keep ph between 5.5 up to 6.2 but can go up 6.5 the sweet spot 5.8. You’ve been just topping with plain water or with mixed nutes and water?
plain water for 2 days then on the 3rd day i put it half strength
No it wouldn’t hurt it at all will make ph more stable and be better for you really as long as you can keep light out and enough air to the roots and water temp decently cooled.
What the full strength ec/ppm you feed in beginning?
450 ppm