Tips of leaves slightly turning up

could be fungus gnats as usually follows coco - which will cause some issues with roots and could explain why development is skewed a bit.

next time you do this - add SNS 203 to the mix regardless. in the meantime get some yellow stickies to see if you have invaders - put the thing right at soil level on a Popsicle stick or pen...etc

now as you've used both coco and soil - you'll have to treat things as soil so keep your pH between 6.5 to 7.5 instead of 5.8 to 6.2.

add a little bit of sugar to your water if is a living soil (1tbsp of raw sugar or maple syrup per 5 gallon RO water)

make sure your water is good and clean - anything with counts over 200ppm will require a RO & Carbon Filter if in City and Chloramine and Fluoride are dissolved. both kill micro-organisms. Sodium locks out everything as Sodium is taken in first before other nutes - which is why anything over 200 needs filtered.

make sure to bring on CalMag if using RO, LEDs and Coco... about 10mL each so if you're using RO water, LEDs for lights and near 50% coco - you'll need ~30mL per 5 Gallons of RO water. always add CalMag before adding other nutes.. Autos love CalMag.

and keep your nutes about half of what photos would use (1/4 to 1/3 of what bottle says, work up to 1/2)

Would a nutrient/tea that has bacillus In it kill of any potential fungus gnats?
 
I believe that's a bit of a myth. Chloramine levels in most tap water only kills the bacteria suspended in the water and has little effect on the microbial life in soil.

I run supersoils and notice a straight drop in production when filters need replacing - stunts for 2 or 3 days and then back to business - not so bad when running photos - but autos...I'm just happy that hasn't happened during flowering
 
Would a nutrient/tea that has bacillus In it kill of any potential fungus gnats?

Bacillus Thuringiensis in a drench for certain will - also - I've used a nicotine drench with neem. do the drench outside of feeding. 2 to 4 times the pot volume.
 
run supersoils and notice a straight drop in production when filters need replacing - stunts for 2 or 3 days and then back to business - not so bad when running photos - but autos...I'm just happy that hasn't happened during flowering
I wonder if you are filtering something else out. Here is an interesting vid you might want to check out on the subject that seems pretty conclusive. He sent multiple lab samples of living soil out for independent testing and found negligible difference between microbial life in the chloramine samples and samples without.
 
Bacillus Thuringiensis in a drench for certain will - also - I've used a nicotine drench with neem. do the drench outside of feeding. 2 to 4 times the pot volume.

So at 11 liter pot would need a flush of at least 22 liters of water with neem oil?!
 
So at 11 liter pot would need a flush of at least 22 liters of water with neem oil?!
if you're not seeing any gnats yet I think a wait and see approach would be the way to go imo. With cannabis less is sometimes more.
I think as Asgardian mentioned earlier, start with the yellow sticky tape.
 
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I wonder if you are filtering something else out. Here is an interesting vid you might want to check out on the subject that seems pretty conclusive. He sent multiple lab samples of living soil out for independent testing and found negligible difference between microbial life in the chloramine samples and samples without.

I agree i never noticed a difference outside when i water my tomatoes straight from the tap. I normally use collected rain but when we have dry spells i have no choice. Plants seem just as happy getting wet from either.
Inside i run RO by choice as my tap is rocks basically.
annual average pH is 8.02
Hardness: 292 mg/L as CaCO3
TDS: 480 mg/L
 
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