jungliedunglies
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Sorry for the book, but trying to be thorough.
Not on the panic button, but I'm not real fuckin stoked right now. So here's the way I've got this bitch set up right now (see below). I just don't know what I'm seeing exactly, and hoping for some insight.......I'd know what to do if it was soil, BUT.
The clones have been in 72 hours now. Started at 170 ppm/.34 EC and water skirtin below the netpot by a tad. Shit started drooping, and thought they were just a little unsettled. Gave em 18 hours that way, then decided to raise the water level up to what is shown below.
At 36 hours and worsening look, I started wondering if the EC was too low, causing them to suck water..........Dumped the tub, and remixed new soup at 1/2 strength which came out to 300 ppm/0.6 EC....added Drip Clean to the mix as well.
Have pretty much left it alone since then, and at 72 hours they still look them same... New leaf growth is NOT happening, but there is apparent ROOT growth on both.
pH seems to bounce around between 5.7 and 6.1...it has gotten as high as 6.3, and I've had to add some pH down to bring it around. H&G says their nutes are designed to run between 5.8 and 6.5 so I'm assuming it's where it's supposed to be in that regard.
Water temps stay pretty steady around 70F with a 50W heater going in there, but if I unplug it they'll drop to the low 60's. Air temps stay pretty steady between 72-76F. RH 45-60%. Turned on the humidifier last night which gets it up to 65%.
So what is this I'm looking at?.............the part that's fucking with my head the most is the PPM/EC thing and it possibly being too low for much of anything but water to be taken in. Is this just a "quit fuckin with it and let em get going" thing? Are they sort of doing a rerooting thing now that the roots have room to expand? Or, am a making an error somewhere else?
Not on the panic button, but I'm not real fuckin stoked right now. So here's the way I've got this bitch set up right now (see below). I just don't know what I'm seeing exactly, and hoping for some insight.......I'd know what to do if it was soil, BUT.
The clones have been in 72 hours now. Started at 170 ppm/.34 EC and water skirtin below the netpot by a tad. Shit started drooping, and thought they were just a little unsettled. Gave em 18 hours that way, then decided to raise the water level up to what is shown below.
At 36 hours and worsening look, I started wondering if the EC was too low, causing them to suck water..........Dumped the tub, and remixed new soup at 1/2 strength which came out to 300 ppm/0.6 EC....added Drip Clean to the mix as well.
Have pretty much left it alone since then, and at 72 hours they still look them same... New leaf growth is NOT happening, but there is apparent ROOT growth on both.
pH seems to bounce around between 5.7 and 6.1...it has gotten as high as 6.3, and I've had to add some pH down to bring it around. H&G says their nutes are designed to run between 5.8 and 6.5 so I'm assuming it's where it's supposed to be in that regard.
Water temps stay pretty steady around 70F with a 50W heater going in there, but if I unplug it they'll drop to the low 60's. Air temps stay pretty steady between 72-76F. RH 45-60%. Turned on the humidifier last night which gets it up to 65%.
So what is this I'm looking at?.............the part that's fucking with my head the most is the PPM/EC thing and it possibly being too low for much of anything but water to be taken in. Is this just a "quit fuckin with it and let em get going" thing? Are they sort of doing a rerooting thing now that the roots have room to expand? Or, am a making an error somewhere else?
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. They're growing roots, ya know.... They look pretty white...there's some browny, foamy, filmy shit on there, but I think that's the Roots Excel doing whatever hocus pocus it does. 
