Not your average yelling/drooping problem... Thanks in advance for all possible help

[hachiroku]

19 plants, under two 1000K lights, water chiller set to 66 degrees ph kept between 5.6 and 5.8 PPM is at 1000. flood cycle is 1 hour on one hour off.

im having A LOT of fan leaves yellow and fall off! A LOT! im about 2 weeks into flower so i dont think this is quite normal.

they are also drooping pretty bad... any advice? or possible ideas?

 

[massproducer]

Has this happened since you started flowering? If so, I usually find that if I do not load up on Nitrogen before I flip to 12/12, I have nitrogen problems, major nitrogen problems. This is because the plant uses a lot of N and Mg during the stretch. I usually use vegging nutes for the first week of flowering as well to combat this problem.

Try giving the plants a nice dose of N and Mg, the older leaves may not recover, but the new growth should come out fine. Once your N and Mg levels are back to where they should be, then just resume feeding as usually... Low N, higher P and K

Hopefully that helps you out a bit

 

[hachiroku]

thanks man. ive been absolutely filling it with the advanced nutrients micro as its 5 high in nitrogen. ill go put some more in. they seem to continue to yellow. ugh!

 

[Timmyjg6]

Why is your solution so thick? How often do you change your rez> Did you thoroughly rinse your hydroton...

 

[hachiroku]

definitely throughly rinsed the hydroton, res hasnt been changed in weeks. i heard you can go your whole grow without changing? solution is so thick because of the carbo load i believe. thats some thick stuff

 

[massproducer]

With the new info provided, I would change the water in the rez. and give the inside of the rez a nice wash down. The rez could have a major imbalance in the nutes that are availible. What I mean is...at different times your plants will eat different amounts of all nutes, but there is no real acruate way to measure this so if your plants eat a lot of something and a little of another and you bump the ppm's back up without a changeout, you could be adding nutes that are still present in a high range, which inturn has a good chance of locking out other nutes and preciperating itself out of the solution making that not availible any more either.

The only time I have really heard of no rez change outs are in bio buckets. Even if you don't do regular changeouts, IMHO it is a good idea to flush the medium and system at the first real signs of problems.

 

[hachiroku]

im sprinting to the room and changing rez right now!!!

 

[trillions of atoms]

clean rezz and up the arreation, those big plants need food and air... try flooding for 30 minutes every hour night and day if you dont upgrade the arreation.

 

[hachiroku]

so like adding air stones to the res?

also, pictures below, is that nice fat nug going to pull through and continue to grow with the condition teh leaves are in? I hadnt notice the horrible nute burn on teh leaves until i looked in using incandescent lighting.

 

[massproducer]

thats not nute burn it is a sun burn, lol, just move your light up some and you will be totally fine

 

[trillions of atoms]

looks like the light was to close to that top- they need more Nitrogen from the looks to me. i would still bump up the N and change the feeding shcedule less time and more times per day if you havent already. yes airstones in the rezz.

 

[trillions of atoms]

mass beat me to it

 

[massproducer]

LoL

 

[Timmyjg6]

there you go, thought that was prob...

 

[smokybear]

Do what Trillions and MP suggested and you will be golden. Keep us posted on the ladies. They look great. Take care and be safe.

 

[hachiroku]

lights up, waters new, slowing bumping up the nutes to a suitable level

 

[smokybear]

Good stuff. Keep us posted on your progress. Take care and be safe.

 

[Timmyjg6]

Change your rez every week..

 

[massproducer]

sounds like you have everything under control, keep us informed, I will be following because I am liking that big bud you got there, and I am betting that very soon you will be seeing even more of them.

 

[hachiroku]

lol have you been following him around the table? he keeps moving haha for better light coverage. its hard to get tehse things in optimal positions, i bet once i get it down itll be awesome. im stoked to try to Big bud and white widow. this is the first time ill be subjected to such quality... im stoked.