Just the tip?

Kalebaiden

Kalebaiden

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My 'good' plant is telling me something is off by just a bit.
The tips of the new growth are turning yellow and the older sun leaves have a wrinkly look to parts of them but not all of the leaf or blades and not every leaf has an issue.

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Nirvana Blue Mystic
Amended promix
Distilled water
General Organics
6.0 pH
Temp is a steady 24°C
Humidity is 62%
250w MH in an air cooled hood 10" above plant
 
pulpoinspace said:
stop using distilled water just use tap or spring water. pH to 6.5 not 6.0. rest looks good.
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I'll pH to 6.5, using tap water isn't an option. Is there any specific reason you suggest spring water?

DarkWeb said:
Yeah why distilled? Do you have bad water?
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The water at my home kills houseplants, it's not potable water either. I can use it to shower with and wash dishes as long as I use bleach in the dishwater. Distilled is the only non-salty water we can get.
 
Kalebaiden said:
The water at my home kills houseplants, it's not potable water either. I can use it to shower with and wash dishes as long as I use bleach in the dishwater. Distilled is the only non-salty water we can get.
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Do you drink the water or use it for food?
 
Kalebaiden said:
I'll pH to 6.5, using tap water isn't an option. Is there any specific reason you suggest spring water?



The water at my home kills houseplants, it's not potable water either. I can use it to shower with and wash dishes as long as I use bleach in the dishwater. Distilled is the only non-salty water we can get.
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spring water is just low ppm water with some natural mineral content. when you use distilled water or reverse osmosis water it has 0 ppm so in addition to leaching nutrients from the soil and flushing them down the drain with ur runoff the pH is also incredibly unstable. if you are going to use distilled water, add 100-200 ppm of calmag. and it is essential to adjust the pH AFTER adding the nutrients so there is something in the water and it wont be so unstable.
 
DarkWeb said:
No shit it's that bad? It's been tested?
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It has been and it's not drinkable. My family has been on this homestead for almost 100 years and the two good wells were buried and lost to time and the well we have is in an iron deposit and fed by swamp water. It comes out of the tap a lovely orange colour with floaties

So what I just did might be a tad dumb but I watered the plants with a 1.5x dose of General Organics CaMg+ that was pH'd to 6.5.

Good?
 
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Kalebaiden said:
It has been and it's not drinkable. My family has been on this homestead for almost 100 years and the two good wells were buried and lost to time and the well we have is in an iron deposit and fed by swamp water. It comes out of the tap a lovely orange colour with floaties

So what I just did might be a tad dumb but I watered the plants with a 1.5x dose of General Organics CaMg+ that was pH'd to 6.5.

Good?
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I have no idea if it's good without knowing what actually in it. But if it's that bad are you able to catch rain or have a filter? Where do you live?
 
Kalebaiden said:
It has been and it's not drinkable. My family has been on this homestead for almost 100 years and the two good wells were buried and lost to time and the well we have is in an iron deposit and fed by swamp water. It comes out of the tap a lovely orange colour with floaties

So what I just did might be a tad dumb but I watered the plants with a 1.5x dose of General Organics CaMg+ that was pH'd to 6.5.

Good?
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should be good. what did you amend the promix with? like how much fertilizer per how much promix. are you treating it like a soil and just watering it till its wet or are you using your nutrients and watering to 20% runoff?

assuming its got everything it needs the plant should perk up. id recommend getting a ppm meter if you can. theyre only 20 bucks on amazon and pretty reliable. very useful when working with liquid nutrients. keep using just a bit of the calmag each time you water as long as you're using distilled water, ~200ppm should be enough, probably less than 1.5x dose but idk what that is. probably only need a few mls per liter.
 
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