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I've caught them more often dry and limp and the cubes light rather than over saturated or over-watered and heavy. They were actually the nice and dark green you see in the first pic when I fed them less often but more saturated where they stayed heavy for a week. And I only recently got a chiller so my water was actually too warm around 75-80*. I keep the water at 65-68* now.The way they are getting lighter looks more like overly saturated root zone thing, like almost overwatering symptom. hmmmm because if it was just the nutrients are getting low, those big fans would not still be really dark like that. Or they need more light or heat or something along those lines.. hmmmmm
yea, running too much water through each time is just a waste, yeah, 10-15 sounds better. 25%... a quarter of nutrient solution each time to waste sounds like a lot, a waste. agreed.
I used to run cubes at around 1.2 EC not much higher than that if ever, bigger more mature plants needed less believe it or not, and running to waste, GH 3part sm90 pH 5.6-5.7 with a 1/4" 4x4 coco mat underneath sitting on the table under 1K hortilux, with 2x2 wood in each corner as posts with trellis across table. ran like a machine.
-with drippers.
At this point I'm leaning toward the lack of consistent waterings and letting them dry out too much. Not much else i can do except wait and see if the new schedule i put them for 4 light waterings per 24 hours does the trick. Should keep the nice and saturated and not allow drying out. And i think im definitely going to throw in a cocomat in there and cover the trays with panda film as you mentioned. Check out this vid i found researching what you said:
youtube.com/watch?v=wY-ZEs8dFyQ