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Cake day: August 8th, 2023

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  • I have been using their two part connoisseur line for a while now, and it’s generally set and forget. I would refill my bucket back up each morning to the same level, but didn’t have to bother with ph, etc., and do a full replacement every 4 days or so. I tried that with aero at first and would quickly see deficiency signs, so then I tried just letting it run down and replacing res when it’s low, but that resulted in crazy excess.

    I added some additional lighting, which is helping it chew through more food, but the biggest change was refilling my ras back to roughly the same tds values a couple times a day, instead of once a day with a preset volume.

    I am surprised you are PH’ing your water while running the ph perfect line. Does that have to do with running the full masters track? I didn’t really have luck moving the needle the few times I’ve tried.

    From my understanding, and the marketing propaganda, the surfactants and chelation make everything available for uptake as long as the range is > 4 and < 8ish. I genuinely stopped years ago, but I do miss the control sometimes.


  • I use the same by happenstance, and have for many grows with my old setup. The biggest issue I was getting is nitrogen abundance, clawing, etc., while seeing obvious signs of calcium/magnesium deficiency at the same time. I would frequently get nutrient burn, but even dialing my res back 10% would result in pink stems (phosphorus deficiency).

    I mostly have things stable now, but the damage is done, it looks terrible… but it’s massive so I got that goin for me I guess.

    Anyway, ultimately I changed how I was topping up my reservoir and things seem better, I am just not sure if I should try something else or not on the next run.



  • I think that’s a fair assessment, mine isn’t all that dissimilar.

    My understanding is there were only a few meters between the weight drop and complete communication loss, so either something went wrong directly related to dropping ballast, which caused the implosion, or perhaps cues the sub was in peril were ignored/misinterpreted by the captain, and the weight drop was his ineffective corrective measure.

    From what I’ve read about the captian, I think his hubris would have never allowed him to fully consider they might be in real danger.








  • Healthy plants need to be ignored just the right amount in order to thrive. Over watering is harder to recover from than under watering, for what that’s worth. The leaves still look good, albeit a little light on nitrogen, so a full recovery is totally possible. My current grow experienced complete root loss at about the same age due to an equipment oversight, and you would never be able to tell with how lush and green it is now.

    You got this!


  • It would be helpful to get a picture of the roots, but a total WAG is you might be fawning over them too much and perhaps they are getting over watered. Just a guess though…

    Roots should be white and bright.

    Hard to give other input without pictures, but seedlings/early growth should be fine in normal soil, you really shouldn’t need to supplement so early unless there is some other mitigating factor.