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| growing peppers for about 1 week now in a dwc system. Using dyna-gro grow as the nutrient, ph is 5.5 - 6.0. Plant is sitting in rockwool surrounded with pellets.
Yesterday I noticed the leafs are starting to curl up and black and yellow spots are appearing on the leafs. Any suggestions? http://picasaweb.google.com/ponichydros/Desktop/photo#5215287031427282 914 http://picasaweb.google.com/ponichydros/Desktop/photo#5215287143356766 834 http://picasaweb.google.com/ponichydros/Desktop/photo#5215287096256144 178 http://picasaweb.google.com/ponichydros/Desktop/photo#5215287062822483 538 |
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- Posted by mhargraves (My Page) on Wed, Jun 25, 08 at 15:06
| A few questions: * Are you doing drip or bath? |
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| * Are you doing drip or bath? - bath * How much nutrient solution are you using (how are you measuring your nutrients)? - i'm using 1 tsp per gallon * Is the plant indoors or outdoors? - indoors in the closet with the door open so it wont be to hot in there * If Indoors, is their air moving around the plant? - I have a fan blowing on the peppers and lights * What temp is the plant in? - not sure actually |
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- Posted by mhargraves (My Page) on Wed, Jun 25, 08 at 20:49
| Some things I would check: How much air bubbles do you have in your bath? It should look like the water is boiling. Measuring the solution by physical amount seldom gives you what you want, you may want to get a meter and check how many PPM your solution has. For peppers it should be around 500 PPM. Temperature or Temp is pretty important, it should never go above 90 if you can help it, and for high temps like 85+, a fan blowing on the plants helps a lot. Water, before you put water in you bath and mix your solution let it stand overnight to rid it of Chlorine. Check you PH, keep it between 5.8 and 6.3 for maximum growth and health. Just suggestions based upon what you said. |
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- Posted by garysgarden (My Page) on Sat, Jun 28, 08 at 23:48
| What kind of nutrients are you using? You need to run them below what's on the bottle for peppers. You might be burning them. Also, how do the roots look? More bubbles couldn't hurt, but may or may not be a problem. |
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- Posted by chuck Z10,SW FL (n6xf@yahoo.com) on Sun, Jun 29, 08 at 17:40
| It wouldn't hurt your plants at all to get a spray bottle filled with water and maybe half a tsp of dish soap. Spray the leaves once a day or so. Those spots look like some kind of critter attack. Even if it isn't, the mild soap solution will not hurt the plants, but it just might help. Don't forget the undersides of the leaves as well. chuck |
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| *update* well the pepper leafs seem to have improved right after I changed the water, adjusted the ph and added some nuts. Thanks for all that replied. http://picasaweb.google.com/ponichydros/Hydroponics/photo#521899986731 1921410 |
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- Posted by garysgarden (My Page) on Fri, Jul 4, 08 at 18:43
| Good to hear. By the way, adding a little bit of soap to water the way chuck describes is also a common method to improve the performance of foliar sprays. It's called a "surfactant" and the idea is to break the surface tension in the water so that it won't bead up on the leaves. Beads of water act like tiny magnifying glasses that focus light and burn the leaves. Plus, if you can spread the water out more thinly and completely you get more water in contact with more leaf surface, and more absorption. You can make a DIY foliar spray by mixing a very weak nutrient solution with a tiny bit of soap and spraying your plants with it. The key to successful foliar feeding is to do it in the very early morning (very near sunrise) or just before sunset. You want a little light so the plant has power for its metabolism, but not so much light that it can heat the water up and hurt the plant. |
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