Hello everyone,
I recently had my first dealings with high PPM building up in soil, and my plant suffered for it. I had never looked at PPM seriously before, and it got upwards of 3800 when I finally started thinking that might be the problem. I just thought I had burned my girl with my light, but that wasnt the case after all.
I had a post up on how I treated this, but just to keep it all in one place - I flushed a ton of water through it and got the PPM down to below a thousand. Im well into flower, and I have only been feeding water in an attempt to let the girl get over the shock of being burned. I also pruned most of the damaged leaves so I could keep track of how she was recovering.
Its been a week or more since the flush, and I still see no movement or growth on my girl. Some more leaves have browned and gotten crunchy, but otherwise she looks fine. No drooping, buds still seem to be pumping out resin, and overall the burn has slowed down significantly. I have another clone in the same room flowering, and ill harvest both at the same time - so regardless, when the clone finishes ill chop the mother down so I dont waste any time.
My question is, have any of you dealt with this type of problem in the past? How did your plants do on recovery? Im also growing a sativa (strawberry cough from dutch passion) where I have only grown indica before now, so the longer growth schedule is also throwing me for a loop lol.
Do I seem to be handling this right, or should I be doing something other than wait?
Thanks.
**edit** to clarify, the buds seem to be making resin but they are not growing. We're talking nickel sized buds at the biggest, half that in other areas. Just a tree full of popcorn at the moment lol.
I recently had my first dealings with high PPM building up in soil, and my plant suffered for it. I had never looked at PPM seriously before, and it got upwards of 3800 when I finally started thinking that might be the problem. I just thought I had burned my girl with my light, but that wasnt the case after all.
I had a post up on how I treated this, but just to keep it all in one place - I flushed a ton of water through it and got the PPM down to below a thousand. Im well into flower, and I have only been feeding water in an attempt to let the girl get over the shock of being burned. I also pruned most of the damaged leaves so I could keep track of how she was recovering.
Its been a week or more since the flush, and I still see no movement or growth on my girl. Some more leaves have browned and gotten crunchy, but otherwise she looks fine. No drooping, buds still seem to be pumping out resin, and overall the burn has slowed down significantly. I have another clone in the same room flowering, and ill harvest both at the same time - so regardless, when the clone finishes ill chop the mother down so I dont waste any time.
My question is, have any of you dealt with this type of problem in the past? How did your plants do on recovery? Im also growing a sativa (strawberry cough from dutch passion) where I have only grown indica before now, so the longer growth schedule is also throwing me for a loop lol.
Do I seem to be handling this right, or should I be doing something other than wait?
Thanks.
**edit** to clarify, the buds seem to be making resin but they are not growing. We're talking nickel sized buds at the biggest, half that in other areas. Just a tree full of popcorn at the moment lol.
