DWCgrower406
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Running rdwc, 4 plant 5x5, cultured solutions nutes, 1 week into flower, plants are happy. In the past ive always monitored ec to determine what plants want. If i feed and ec stays even over next few days, ec is perfect, if ec drops, they want it stronger, if it rises, ec is too high. Pretty common practice amd has always worked for me.
In this grow, the plants are asking for more and more based on ec falling. My system is 30gal, currently feeding about .9ec as reccomended in cs feeding chart. Within 24 hours they suck it down to about .6ec. In a 30gal res, thats a lot of nutes they are taking up. They are getting a bit of tip burn and some of them looking a bit darker green than they should. Definitely dont look hungry and even maybe slightly overfed, but still they suck that ec right down like they are starving and want higher concentration. For now ive just been replenishing enough to bring back up to .9 daily.
Should i follow the ec numbers and feed heavier until it stabilizes? Or feed less based on the darker green color of the plants and slight tip burn? I guess naturally the bloom nutes will be lighter in nitrogen so maybe don't need to worry about the dark green, but still the slight tip burn makes me hesitate to feed heavier.
In this grow, the plants are asking for more and more based on ec falling. My system is 30gal, currently feeding about .9ec as reccomended in cs feeding chart. Within 24 hours they suck it down to about .6ec. In a 30gal res, thats a lot of nutes they are taking up. They are getting a bit of tip burn and some of them looking a bit darker green than they should. Definitely dont look hungry and even maybe slightly overfed, but still they suck that ec right down like they are starving and want higher concentration. For now ive just been replenishing enough to bring back up to .9 daily.
Should i follow the ec numbers and feed heavier until it stabilizes? Or feed less based on the darker green color of the plants and slight tip burn? I guess naturally the bloom nutes will be lighter in nitrogen so maybe don't need to worry about the dark green, but still the slight tip burn makes me hesitate to feed heavier.