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healthdude38
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OK. Your at week 7. The buds look great. What say them under a good loop? Because without that, best guess is best I can offer.
If those gals are around 8 week finishers, it time to flush anyway. This said, your indicator leaves (water leaves) seem to be showing classic signs of nutrient overload. Without knowing variables,, again, it’s a best guess scenario. Also, let’s say it was nutrient burn, and you quickly recover. Those leaves are nutrient burned forever and won’t recover. The good thing with WTC it’s really quick to recover from mishaps. Also, a few photos of the root zone might be helpful as well.
The best advice I could offer you would be to get a few tools. First is a quality ph and ec/ppm meter. Armed with these two tools, you can not only easily verify changes but adjust as needed, but I use my ec meter to tell me how well the girls are eating. It can also tell you when they aren’t eating. Same with ph, ESPECIALLY is DWC. It’s a fine line here, because above and below on the ph scale can lock your plant out of needed nutrients like flipping a light switch. I aim for a general ph of between 5.8 and 6.0, however once you get playing with it you can use this knowledge to benefit your plants. If I can locate a deficiency in either macro or micro, I can find at what ph that particular micro nute is best assimilated at and dial that in for a day or two before returning to an average. The biggest problem I face isn’t that I don’t know if the girls are eating or how much they are eating. I can tell that. What I can’t tell is specifically which “salts” they are eating. If you don’t start fresh every week or two depending on reservoir size, you risk a nutrient lockout scenario, which because your DWC is easily remedied.
Grab a loop. Check out the trics. Those buds look like they are ready for flushing, again, because you are DWC is really easy to feed those gals a low ppm water, kick the lights off temps down 10 deg and watch those gals get desperate…
I was just thinking about getting a loop today, it's time to check these trichs.. and the plants are 9 week finishers, well that's what the breeder says but they may take 1 more week..
Week 8 flower starts today so the plants should be ready in 2 weeks max.. let's see.. since I turned down the light to 600w they seem to be doing better, pistills are turning yellow and so on.. before they just looked the same with no progress for almost 2 weeks..