Switched from Jacks to 321 to Jacks RO 12-4-16 and getting N toxicity

pizzax1

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Hey all,
Wondering if anyone has any tips for me. I've been growing beautiful flowers for the last year using automatic watering in coco/perlite and feeding Jacks 321. But I would always at some point get N toxicity (deep green, tips clawing) but no actual nute burn tips. I always keep my EC around 2.0-1.8 depending on the plant. This time around I bought the RO version with 12-5-16 see if I could avoid the N toxicity since the nitrogen is all around lower without using the two part system of Jacks 321. But here I am, 1 month in and one of my plants is showing tip clawing again. EC is around 1.9 right now in the res. I also use a micro mix every two weeks. The only other thing I use is Si. These are all autoflowers by the way, so I'm wondering if these girls are just too sensitive? How else could I reduce the nitrogen with a one part besides lowering the overall EC? Before I would just lower the Part B of CalNit. It's not bad and they outgrow it, but I would like to have one grow with ZERO issues.

Thanks for any tips.
 

Roguedawg

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Just lower EC, and you dont need the micros your adding, there is plenty in the Jacks Ro. The one parts are all i use now, the Tap and RO but at a lower EC. Im at EC 1.2-1.3 once i get to multiple fertigations a day. I do use EC1.8 to 2 for a few times after transplant to fill cation exchange capacity of my coco.
 

pizzax1

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Just lower EC, and you dont need the micros your adding, there is plenty in the Jacks Ro. The one parts are all i use now, the Tap and RO but at a lower EC. Im at EC 1.2-1.3 once i get to multiple fertigations a day. I do use EC1.8 to 2 for a few times after transplant to fill cation exchange capacity of my coco.
Sorry I was vague on that, I meant micro as in microbes, not micronutrients. But thank you, thats exactly what I was looking to hear. I guess my EC is way too high for these girls.
 

pizzax1

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Just lower EC, and you dont need the micros your adding, there is plenty in the Jacks Ro. The one parts are all i use now, the Tap and RO but at a lower EC. Im at EC 1.2-1.3 once i get to multiple fertigations a day. I do use EC1.8 to 2 for a few times after transplant to fill cation exchange capacity of my coco.
Oh wait one question, you still use epsom salts right?
 

.Smoke

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I still use the 321 but I've had to cut EC back from 2.4 to .9 just 10 days after flipping to 12/12 to get ec/ph levels to stay stable. Try lowering your Ec like these guys said and see what happens.
 

rkymtnman

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This time around I bought the RO version
just a FYI: i use well water and tried the Jack's Tap formula and I had a weird pH drop after a few days in my feed res. the guys at jacks couldn't figure it out and sent me a bag of the RO. no more pH drops with it. just something to keep an eye on.
 

stnr420

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Hey all,
Wondering if anyone has any tips for me. I've been growing beautiful flowers for the last year using automatic watering in coco/perlite and feeding Jacks 321. But I would always at some point get N toxicity (deep green, tips clawing) but no actual nute burn tips. I always keep my EC around 2.0-1.8 depending on the plant. This time around I bought the RO version with 12-5-16 see if I could avoid the N toxicity since the nitrogen is all around lower without using the two part system of Jacks 321. But here I am, 1 month in and one of my plants is showing tip clawing again. EC is around 1.9 right now in the res. I also use a micro mix every two weeks. The only other thing I use is Si. These are all autoflowers by the way, so I'm wondering if these girls are just too sensitive? How else could I reduce the nitrogen with a one part besides lowering the overall EC? Before I would just lower the Part B of CalNit. It's not bad and they outgrow it, but I would like to have one grow with ZERO issues.

Thanks for any tips.
Lower the cal nitrate
 

Roguedawg

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Pizza I do add some epsom, but I am using well water that is more Ca. than Mg. if i was using RO water i probably wouldnt add epsom.
Rockymtn The RO and Tap versions are for the pH in the media not the res. unless you are recirculating. It is odd your res. Ph dropped like that with tap. I use well water also and my media pH dropped with Tap alone a good bit, and went up fast with the RO alone so i started alternating the 2, Tap for a few days RO for a few. I mix a res. every day though, so my res. may would drop if i left it a few days with Tap i dont know.
 

Roguedawg

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Rockymtn I just noticed on other thread you are in DWC. That would explain your pH dropping with Tap. If you notice it climbing all the time with RO you could probably alternate RO and Tap, or even a mix of the two.
 

rkymtnman

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Rockymtn I just noticed on other thread you are in DWC. That would explain your pH dropping with Tap. If you notice it climbing all the time with RO you could probably alternate RO and Tap, or even a mix of the two.
i'm in dtw coco now for the last year or so. the weird thing about the drop was that it was in a stand alone res. it would be fine for about 3 days and then drop into the low 4s. but yeah, they sent a free bad of RO and it was fine for a week after that
 

Snowback

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Pizza I do add some epsom, but I am using well water that is more Ca. than Mg. if i was using RO water i probably wouldnt add epsom.
Rockymtn The RO and Tap versions are for the pH in the media not the res. unless you are recirculating. It is odd your res. Ph dropped like that with tap. I use well water also and my media pH dropped with Tap alone a good bit, and went up fast with the RO alone so i started alternating the 2, Tap for a few days RO for a few. I mix a res. every day though, so my res. may would drop if i left it a few days with Tap i dont know.
The RO formula does not contain sulfur. If one uses the RO formula with true RO water and does not add Epsom (or some other sulfur compound), there is no sulfur in the mix. The tap water formula does not contain sulfur either.
 

Roguedawg

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Yes no sulfur, I should have added that if you do not use sulfuric for pH adjustment you should use mgso4 probably. I say probably because there is good chance the sulfur requirement can be absorbed from the air but that will depend on your location.
 
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