Grow Mediums Over-Water or Under-Water

[TexasFarmer]

I am in week 5 of flowering my Nirvana Bubblelicious Auto and some of the fan leaves are drooping. Can someone please lend some advice.

Media : 50/50 CoCo-Perlite
3 Gallon Smart Pot
150Watt HPS
A.N. PH Perfect G-M-B
A.N. Big Bud
G.H. Cal/Mag
Water/Feed PH 5.8
Runoff PH 6.2
Water/Feed every 3 days or when CoCo is dry

 

[jayp]

My plant looked the same way yesterday and it was due to needing water. You could check and see if she is dry.

 

[TexasFarmer]

She is not completely dry but not overly wet either. Is it possible she needs water everyday or every other day?

 

[Abc123]

Yeah mine seem to need water every 2 days but not be completely dry soo I'd say try watering every 2 days see if it helps

 

[Stunted]

From the look of the last two pictures they are thirsty, very thirsty......
As has already been suggested, water every second day or more often if needed.

Stunted Drink
:smokebuds:

 

[low_and_slow]

Coco is hydroponics. If your medium dries, that is the same as a dwc rez running dry. Water every day until you see 10% runoff. The dryer coco gets, the ppm skyrocket! Adding new water/nutes daily refreshes the medium and introduces fresh O2 into the root zone.

You can treat it like ProMix and use a wet dry cycle, but it will not perform as intended or even as well as ProMix because it has a very different cation exchange capacity. Also, if your feed in = 5.8 and runoff = 6.2, there is something wonky with ph. I recommend you flush 3-4 times the volume of the pot with 5.6 ph notes to recharge your medium, the roots are likely in need of some tlc. Hit me back with Q's, have run 4 grows this way, including two 16 oz contest entries that will yield close to 20g each from a micro setup.

 

[low_and_slow]

Btw, many coco pros feed full strength nutes 3-6 times / day after stretch stops on photo grows. It's impossible to over - water, some even have full time drain to waste drippers during lights on time.

 

[TexasFarmer]

Btw, many coco pros feed full strength nutes 3-6 times / day after stretch stops on photo grows. It's impossible to over - water, some even have full time drain to waste drippers during lights on time.

Thanks for the information low_and_slow.
She is taking in all the feed and water I have given her and looking a lot better today. You can already see the buds adding weight.

 

[low_and_slow]

How did this grow end up working out?

 

[Rebel]

I would like to know as well... Nice info low n slow! Thanks for helping out!