So 750 ppm in a 5 gallon DWC bucket with a submersible pump to keep the water circulating and an air pump with a hose going right under the net up. Water was moved to just below net cup. PH is 5.9. Light is 12 inches away, temp is 73° F. Humitifity is around 65%. Using Bushdoctor Cal-Mag, Big Bloom, and hydroponic grow big. 60ml of big bloom, 30ml of hydro grow big, and 20 ml of calmag. I’m using around 4 gallons of water. Please help she’s dying and this is my first time. I wanna be successful.
Hello. First there are some things
Does this clone have roots?
How many weeks is it?
Your rooms temps seem abit cold for such a small plant. You should be in the mid 80’s with high humidity in the 80’s .
But be careful not to allow your water temps to get high or else you’ll get pythium on your roots (root rot).
A 5 gallon bucket filled up to just below the net pot is a waste of nutrients in my opinion. Unless you’re running an RDWC system that needs an actual water level to consider for circulation to happen. But if you’re just in a bucket with a bubble stone, make a smaller container of nutrients until the roots extend far enough to warrant the use of 3-5 gallons
But yeah the temps and humidity are important on the early stages of development.
Not sure if this helps. But good luck.
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I’m tryna dial in humidity and I have other young clowns in soil so I was tryna keep it cooler for them too. But I’ll boost the heat up. Also what do u mean? It’s a 5 gallon bucket, I’m just tryna put the water up to the right level. There are a couple of roots coming back. She already got rooted but it was in soil th em cleaned and transferred to DWC.
Ok well first, she will be in Transfer Shock going from soil to DWC for a few days, so expect that.
But as far as the water goes, if the roots are showing, you want to have the water just high enough so that the mist from the bubbles popping actually sprays the root and attract the roots to the water.
You don’t want her sitting in water just yet, you want to tease the roots.
Ok, so I lowered her water level to about a half inch from the bottom of the net cup, before I had them submerged. Also found out my temps were getting out of whack while I was away so now I’m tryna figure out how to lower the temp
You should water her from the top with a cup first. Let the nutrients run through the media and run over the roots.
Are you talking about your water temperatures out of whack or room temperatures?
You’ll Need to thermal wrap your 5 gallon bucket from heat and from light.
I suggest trying a sun visor and cut it to shape your bucket. Make sure it’s blacked out. You should not allow your roots to see light.
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Ok I’ll try doing some top watering to get the plant more well established, could I hook up a submersible pump and just have it slowly shooting over the top? And the air temp was out of wack, sitting at 82°! I have now got it down to 72 with help from an AC unit, it’s not at 75 but close enough lol.
Well as I was saying, you want your room temperature higher in the earlier stages.
Just make sure the water temps stay low.
And a submersible pump will add heat to the water. Just water it once or twice by hand and let the roots find their way.
And INSULATE THOSE BUCKETS
High temp high humidity in the room for the first few weeks
Heres a breakdown of my temps in certain stages of growth.
Note: THESE TEMPS ARE FOR EXOTIC STRAINS THAT WE GROW
Ok I’ll try to get those temps up, I mean at first it was at 82°. And the bucket is already black. The nutrients just keep sitting at the bottom of the reservoir so that’s why I was thinkin about the submersible pump.
Do I need to have an airstone? As I just have an air pump with a tube
Yes, you should have an air pump and stone for your buckets. You want your water to have a lot of oxygen in it for the roots. If you don’t you could get root issues like root rot. Happy growing
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Ok I’m going to try to get one today.
I got her up to 75 now, they are all cloning, and they are starting to show new growth but the dwc plant keeps going down.