Indoor 1st Mephisto grow...dwc & coco

[Atitoken]

i don't know anything about megacrop but 275 doesn't seem to be very much...even at 4 weeks? What light is she under?

It’s under an autocob. It had 14 days in the farm with just straight water then Rez filled with the 275. It doesn’t seem to be wanting more yet. Start low and build up slowly.

 

[Atitoken]

Today. It was topped last night

 

[Dublegendz]

Day 33 - Such a crazy contrast in plants...thin & branchy vs short & bushy. They're both drinking a lot now & I'm having to feed about every 36 hours. The ppm on the dwc have dropped from 850 to about 475 in 2 days so she's eating & the PH has been steady at 5.9. It's weird the PH usually rises but after this last feed i haven't had to adjust it once. Should i up it a bit to allow nute uptake at about 6.2 or leave it at 5.9? Do i top off the res with plain RO or mix a gallon of nutes & use that? Any feedback is appreciated...thanks!

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[davisgirl]

Total noob so take this with a grain of salt. These are growing by leaps and bounds, that’s a big drop unless you’ve been adding straight water back. Is she due for a water change? If she was mine, I’d be upping her nutes, starting with a fresh reservoir. @Mañ'O'Green ’s philosophy is up the nutes until mild leaf tip burn, then back off 10%.

I wouldn’t worry much about the pH, but it’s good that you noticed. Unexpected pH readings tend to trigger a cleaning/recalibration for me, but that doesn’t sound too suspicious. Has she preflowered yet? The plants release hormones that can affect pH, especially heading into flower. Day 33 sounds about right.

Has the deficiency stopped spreading? If so, you’re headed for easy street. I’ve had to keep the calmag notched as high as I dared this entire grow. I’ve backed off in the past week to normal calmag levels since switching to Megacrop, and I believe I see a bit of the old rusties creeping onto GGs leaves again. Could just be getting close to the end of the road for her though, since I’m not seeing it on the others.

 

[davisgirl]

How old are the seedlings? They look a little yellow. Underfed or overwatered?

 

[Dublegendz]

How old are the seedlings? They look a little yellow. Underfed or overwatered?

They're a week old & i the only thing i can think of was I forgot to add calmag to the RO water & I've heard to always add calmag if using coco but beyond that I'm not sure what's going on. All 3 are Samsquanch & sprouted much differently...weird. I haven't added any Rapidstart yet cuz I'm afraid of burning them. I dunno man...any ideas? I had them under a dome til yesterday & only pulled it off when they started to yellow

 

[davisgirl]

A week old? I don’t think coco has any nutrients in it. Make sure the air is moving around them and feed them at half strength next watering. Not sure what you’re using for nutes but calmag too.

 

[Dublegendz]

Day 37...getting bushy!! I'm thinking i need to cut some fan leaves cuz she basically canopied over the pot...lower areas need light too? Pruning the dwc was easy with the deficiencies cuz i just cut away dying leaves but all the foliage on the coco plant is healthy...any suggestions?

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[Mr Green Fingers]

Day 37...getting bushy!! I'm thinking i need to cut some fan leaves cuz she basically canopied over the pot...lower areas need light too? Pruning the dwc was easy with the deficiencies cuz i just cut away dying leaves but all the foliage on the coco plant is healthy...any suggestions?

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• Dublegendz
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Hey bro, what lights you running and how close? IMO looks like you got some light bleaching and your leaves have got the claw, I would move them up personally if you have the room

 

[Dublegendz]

Hey bro, what lights you running and how close? IMO looks like you got some light bleaching and your leaves have got the claw, I would move them up personally if you have the room

I'm running 4 QB132's (3500k) @ 250w...they dont run hot at all. My buddy runs his 6" from the canopy but i chose 8" and until now it hasn't seemed to be a problem. I just raised them to 10" & I'll see what happens. Res temps have jumped to 75 as the roots have gotten bigger...dont know if there's a correlation there. PH wants to stay at 6.4 so twice a day I'm having to drop it to 5.8