Little help needed I think guys

29menace

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Hi guys

What's it called when the plant shits into the Rez every day?

Leaching?

When the mix is too weak and the ppm's rise daily and hourly sometimes with the pH rising at same time, what's the technical term for this if there is one so I can do more research.

Too many ppl say reduce feed and for most there correct but for some it's the exact opposite.

It's the exact opposite for me anyways, my lemon cake has never reduced the ppm's in the rez whatsoever. It went limey a few weeks ago and with the ppm's still rising daily I upped it's feed and Within hours it went back to its normal colour but over time it just looks like it's going limey again.

I've been trying to find the sweet spot but if I lower it it rises and if I raise it it rises so can't win.

Im at EC 2.3 , tap EC 0.5 so 1.8ec of nutes x700 scale.

unsure of ppm's but have chart if needed.
pH 6.1 but last night rose to 6.4 and EC went up slightly ,water level went down a litre or two.
I'm in 25litre Dwc bucket using AN's Connoisseur bloom@45 ml A+B
Rhino Skin @ 5ml
tarantula 5ml
carboload 5ml
sensizyme 15ml
Nirvana 5ml
I'm 1wk in flower now
Roots are fine
Rez temps 20-24c
Humidity 50%

The yellow lime is only slight and the overall plant looks good , when it happened the first time I saw a little calcium Def happening but that's sorted itself out after the first big increase in nutes , from roughly 1.0 to 1.8 I believe it was.

If what's happening is the same as 10+ days ago then to stop the ppm's rising and to darken her off I would have to increase the nute strength.

I could also flush with tap water which is all I have available for 24hrs and give it half strength and see if ppm's go down but I don't know I don't they will.

Lemon is on the right, the Gorilla Zkittlez on left was a Hermie so chopped it down an hour ago.
Will post more pictures shortly.IMG_20200421_142546.jpg
 

BluntMoniker

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The only way your ppm is rising, without adding anything, is if water levels are dropping causing your nutrient level concentration to rise
 

BluntMoniker

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Do you have a reservoir tank?

I may be wrong, I dont see any water lines going to/from your buckets. If your plants, are only working from a 5 gallon bucket with an air line.. that's going to be a lot of your problem.

The larger the volume of water in your system, the less things fluctuate. Or rather, those fluctuations take much more time to happen, due to increase in volume.
 

29menace

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Yeah I understand, no resivoir just 25lire buckets 15yrs I've done it this way and only had this problem twice. The last time I reduced ppm's to the point my plant suffered and each day the Ec would still rise like it's doing now. Most other times I saw fluctuations I'd just top up with water n leave it but instead of doing that I wanna understand what's actually happening here. Yes in some cases the ppm rises because the nutes are too hot but there are times the EC rises due to being underfed.

Understanding which is happening is detrimental to the plants health.

I'd think I'd see nute burn if they were too hot , all I see is a limey plant ,the exact same look as it had before I upped the feed the first time and it returned to normal colour.

Either way I'm flushing for 24hrs now and will start off at half strength in morning and will see then if the EC drops. If not the fuck knows.

I will be getting larger tanks/buckets for the next run to perhaps save this from happening again.
 
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