Week one dwc Turning YELLOW

what are you feeding at ppm wise? and what nutes?

He's still getting a meter.

Yellowing on the lower leaves shows a transfer of nutrients. By the sound of the size of your plant I couldn't tell you if you're feeding too much or too little but it's either a lockout or not enough.

Notice most of the currently practicing hydro guys are all saying one of two things.

1) start hydro from seed or clone instead of forcing your plant to adapt from primary soil roots to primary water roots.

Or

2) the plant doesn't look too bad for a young plant to me.

And they are right in both cases for multiple reasons. Most plants have the ability to be grown with primary water roots but you don't want to confuse the plant by making it change over in the middle. And right now your looking at your plants side by side saying damn my soul plants look greener healthier and more vigorous but your not seeing the true root zone difference. In hydro during this initial "rooting" phase in its life cycle your forcing your hydro plant to do 3 times the root work of your soil plants so they do tend to look less verdant at this stage don't sweat that. Once she dangels her toes in the solution and gets well established she will make up the difference and then some on the early soil head start.

Take a cup and keep hand feeding the plant with nute soulution from res until you have a much larger root structure than one or two roots dangling in the water. Once roots can actually drink from res all will be well im sure.

Thanks for all the help! Come to find out i was wayyy underfeeding her. I gave her the proper amount of nutes per gallon and now she is looking like a different animal lol beginner mistakes

USbeginnerguy said:

Thanks for all the help! Come to find out i was wayyy underfeeding her. I gave her the proper amount of nutes per gallon and now she is looking like a different animal lol beginner mistakes

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I think we might be the only people to underfert a plant..lol..usually people are throwing stuff at it trying to fix it.

Whew! I was sweating it. "Good Job" US !

Underferting is a good practice to get into in DWC. I feed no more than 600ppm (1.2EC)

Seriously, much better to underfeed then overfeed.

Good job.

Hey if you all want to check out how far along this little yellow plant has gone here is the thread:

https://www.rollitup.org/t/incredible-bulk-strawberry-blue.875415/#post-11736787