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Help save my girls
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Switcher56
Comfortably numb!
You are overfeeding them!
PotPlanter
New member
I'd say nute burn (nut burn sounds painful though so I hope you don't have that) my girls are 5 times that size and I'm only feeding around 1.1 ec however I don't know what nutes you are using but dial it back to half strength and good luck. Also, is that an auto? if not, that's a big ole pot for one so young.
Your EC is not high but for such a small plant with no established root mass it looks like she cant take it.. Im is soil, I use 450ppm/ph 6.5 on all plants in veg but they all have a good root mass established.. Make sure your PH is good 5.8-6 for coco. Change your meter to read PPM if you can and use 400 ppm until her roots are good. Than you can up her feed.
1.2ec=600ppm
Is your coco wet or dry?. Looks dry.. You could water with ro a few times to offset the ec levels until roots are established.
1.2ec=600ppm
Is your coco wet or dry?. Looks dry.. You could water with ro a few times to offset the ec levels until roots are established.
Did you wash that coco?
If not, you are sitting in 1.2 EC+ to begin with (if you are lucky) and adding the ferts on top. ouch
Take some of the media and soak it, measure every couple of hours, stir, etc... Then wait a day. Post the pics.
Did you buffer with Calcium prior to planting? Looks like a Ca deficiency to say the least.
What are you applying?
If not, you are sitting in 1.2 EC+ to begin with (if you are lucky) and adding the ferts on top. ouch
Take some of the media and soak it, measure every couple of hours, stir, etc... Then wait a day. Post the pics.
Did you buffer with Calcium prior to planting? Looks like a Ca deficiency to say the least.
What are you applying?
Fixer
Active member
Hi slownickel, Are we talking about the same thing? If I have an over concentration of nutrients in my coco I flush it by running enough dilute nutrients through the coco to bring the e.c/ppms down until the runoff from the bottom of the pot is within 300ppm of whatever I'm feeding them. If you're using processed, bagged coco you don't need to rinse or buffer.
Stevebe, when you feed your plants make sure you are getting around 10% of what you feed the plants back out of the bottom as runoff. When you do this you know that you're flushing some of the excess nutrients that you fed them last time back out. Check your runoff occasionally to make sure there's no build up.
yep its an auto, i feed coco a&b at 5.8 ph roughly its about 0.25ml / L
the coco came pre buffered, its cocos premium. i haven't buffered with Ca or Mg, as the coco a & b contain both.
Guy, I have been testing coco for years, right out of the bag. It's all salty.
Suggest you drop the blind faith and use a bit of science.
