Leaves dying and falling off overnight

Springtucky

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I currently have a waterfarm unit and I am close to 4 weeks into flowering and noticed that the fans all seemed to have twisted and fell off or were on verge of falling off. No nute burn I checked ph and it was very low 4.7. I adjusted it back to 5.8 yesterday and just now I noticed that more leaves have fallen off. Pppm are at 750 at the moment. This is the only waterfarm unit I am flowering at the moment and everything else is fine I have 8 plants in Supersoil and about 20 plants on a 4x4 flood and drain.
 

kannibis

Active Member
750ppm would be enough to sustain green growth provided it's balanced and providing enough Nitrogen. Your pH dropping suggests to me that you have another problem. Usually a drop in pH signals the start, or the acceleration of root disease. Upping the ppm is a good idea, dont get me wrong. But I would examine your roots carefully, if you have some turning a reddish/brown color, you need to get some bennies in there quickly.

Also, a good rule of thumb for flowering, is 100ppm increase on week two through week 6 up to a maximum of 1600ppm, if your strain can tolerate it. I usually start week one with 1000ppm, by week 6 I'm up to 1400 or so. I like to error on the side of caution. Plants are not cow's, they cannot be force fed, so concentration is not as important as balance among the macro/micro nutrients. By increasing the salt (nutrient) content you increase the osmotic pressure, hence allowing the plant to do less work to take up the nutes. But on the flip side, too high, and the osmotic pressure inside the plant rises to the point to where it can no long assimilate water and nutrients. Thus causing the plant to uptake very little of either, and without rectifying the situation, you end up with nute burn....

If I were you, and seeing such an unusual dropping of leaves, I would start by completely cleaning your res, give fresh nutes, add EWC tea, and wait a few days, problem should be fixed, if not, it most likely isnt your water.....
 

Springtucky

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low ppm was culprit. @ kannibis, I hear you bro, but i like my resies clear and nice, one of the many points of why I do hydro. I also run soil so I like to keep the micro-organism in there. Thanks.
 

meltdown213

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The waterfarm unit has some serious flaws to the design. I think people have so many problems with them because of the giant pots and the amount of rock needed for those little buckets. Those drip rings will wash all that rock dust into your res. Scrap their buckets and res and build your own using the drip rings and circulation kit and you have one hell of a system. You can grow trees with a quarter of the trouble that POS is going to give you.

She'll quit "sugaring" those buds if all of her leaves are dying.
 
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