You got that right! Gonna use cal mag from here on out in my RO water. I also was able to collect some thunderstorm rain water yesterday evening so next watering they’re getting a drink of that. Thunder rain packed in N too.
What you think is going on with my girls. Is that RO water like I was thinking? Lacking Ca Mg?
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That is the way it is presenting. RO is stripped clean, so CalMag is a necessity but pH lockout is a high probability.
ReikoX laid out a good list, pH in/out & EC in/out are very useful diagnostic tools.
If you are prepping your own soils, some amendments need to ‘cook in’ for a couple months minimum. I found the hard way that dolomite and gypsum need the longest to stabilize.
Cheers
G
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So PH should be between 6.2-7, but what should the EC be? I just realized my PH tester came with a EC tester. I didn’t know what the hell it was. So this whole EC shit is new to this rookie haha. I’m learning though I’m learning. Loving every minute of it. Appreciate y’all’s help.
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That’s correct for the pH, I’ll pass on the EC answer and leave it to the coco growers to answer (it’s not really applicable to soil grows as I understand it).
The difference in pH can indicate soil conditions etc. I’ll leave it to the experts to properly detail. Sampling to outflow is when you get 10% runoff.
Cheers
G
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What’s up man 
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Sorry I didn’t look you up before now on here bro. Hope those issues you were having got worked out!
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What’s up dude! Just watered them today so we will see. Nice drink of rainwater with cal-mag. Hoping calcium and magnesium deficiency is the answer.
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Welcome @EKGgrow88 looks like your off to a great start and already been getting some great advice
Thanks for your service my friend
Paps
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Thank you, and I’m really enjoying the community/family of growers. I don’t see all that shit talk like you see on many other platforms. At least not lots of it if any.
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A few days into week 4 and I’ve made several adjustments. I dropped the light to 12” away, and ditched the RO water for now for some rainwater I collected (about 20 gallons) and added cal-mag before correcting my PH. I was just able to water today with my new high quality h20 (in my waterboy voice) so we will see if the issues with the front 2 start to clear up. The front left has always struggled the most and been the grunt. To make matters worse I snapped the main stem trying to bend the top
over too aggressively lol. I got it propped up and we’re gonna run with it because I know plants can heal. Maybe hard for the autos in such short time, but we will see.
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Always keep medical tape in the growroom.
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Week 5 update and I’d say I got the problem pretty dialed in now and…all. systems. green! The girls are responding well to some new sips of that high quality rainwater with 5ml calmag , dropping the light within 12” and a top dress of some buds and blooms from COM products. I top dressed twice within 9 days of each other and they really just loved it. I really zapped them with that RO water in the beginning. I’m learning a lot and already can’t wait to use my new techniques for the next grow. Look at the difference from week 4-5. Wow! Autos are pretty fun, but I’m not too sold yet. Want to dip my hands into some photoperiods soon. I think I’ll enjoy the ability to train more a lot better.
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I know I want in on this ! I have a bit of tents to donate to a good cause !
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Nice set up.
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Welcome to OG my friend. Good people here. Im happy to say.
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Looking great dude hell yeah!!!
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Damn Slick. Very nice. Impressed. Peace @EKGgrow88 your grow looks amazing. Good work. It gets heated sometimes. But true. Some are so bad it’s like looking at 
. I hate to say. The trolls. They are cool at first the trash talking. I’m good here and another place. Seen something on Facebook I don’t want no part of that.
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Dude you’re coming over when that’s done and we’re smoking some 
Oh shit, when mines done, if these fucking bugs don’t kill it we can trade lol
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