Hello!
So I'm using a DWC bucket for a donor lady. I have been desperately trying to figure out what's wrong with her. My Temps are 75-82 degrees. Using a 600 watt LED light that's about 1.5 feet away from her. 2 Fans going, not directly on her, but she dances a little bit. My PH is at the 5.6-6 range, humidity is 40%, using veg recipe from technaflora that's about 700-900 ppm. Using grodan and hydroton too... I also have the temp of the water at around 65-75 degrees (since I'm not using my hydro loop yet it's just in a dwc bucket, so water temp control has resulted in a little fluctuation because I out an ice bottle in there to keep the temps down, additionally I use a few drops of hydrogen peroxide (hydro/plant grade just in case some gross nasties wanted to grow). Now it looks like it's a calcium or magnesium deficiency or maybe even nute burn? ...but I am uncertain. I have been playing with the pH taking it down from 6.2 to 5.7 because I've been reading that calcium and/or magnesium does not absorb well in hydro with higher pH, but I've had no luck in remedying the problem. Today I will be changing the water out, and putting in fresh nutes with pH balanced, distilled water. Should I mix the nutes in first and then move her to the new bucket, or flush with distilled water that's pH balanced, and wait a day before adding the nutes back in? I don't know. I'm very upset that I haven't been able to fix this problem. Any assistance would be wonderful, I'm desperate. Thank you in advance; much appreciated.
So I'm using a DWC bucket for a donor lady. I have been desperately trying to figure out what's wrong with her. My Temps are 75-82 degrees. Using a 600 watt LED light that's about 1.5 feet away from her. 2 Fans going, not directly on her, but she dances a little bit. My PH is at the 5.6-6 range, humidity is 40%, using veg recipe from technaflora that's about 700-900 ppm. Using grodan and hydroton too... I also have the temp of the water at around 65-75 degrees (since I'm not using my hydro loop yet it's just in a dwc bucket, so water temp control has resulted in a little fluctuation because I out an ice bottle in there to keep the temps down, additionally I use a few drops of hydrogen peroxide (hydro/plant grade just in case some gross nasties wanted to grow). Now it looks like it's a calcium or magnesium deficiency or maybe even nute burn? ...but I am uncertain. I have been playing with the pH taking it down from 6.2 to 5.7 because I've been reading that calcium and/or magnesium does not absorb well in hydro with higher pH, but I've had no luck in remedying the problem. Today I will be changing the water out, and putting in fresh nutes with pH balanced, distilled water. Should I mix the nutes in first and then move her to the new bucket, or flush with distilled water that's pH balanced, and wait a day before adding the nutes back in? I don't know. I'm very upset that I haven't been able to fix this problem. Any assistance would be wonderful, I'm desperate. Thank you in advance; much appreciated.
