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Tuesday, January 24, 2017
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Oak Grove, Mn
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I haven't given up completely yet on the hydro's. When the system crashed the ph of the nutrient solution kept dropping.. It got to 5.3. As some of the plants started to recover the ph started climb back rapidly until it hit 6.8. I am adding ph down to the solution every few hours to try to slowly bring it back to stable 5.8. I pulled three plants that were worst affected. The other four have blossoms and are still dropping pollen. I noticed on two of the plants pulled some signs of root rot. More hydroguard added. In the nutrient solution I can tell there are small solid white chunks floating... somehow I think there has been some chemical reaction that has occurred. I want to do a complete flush of the system but have to wait 8 hours before reverse osmosis tank is full again. This crash really has not made me sad. If I only could grow one crop per year I would be really disappointed. But since I am indoors it is always the third week of May. The next season can always start tomorrow.
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