Help needed for hydroponics hot chili
Hi everyone,
Merry Christmas!
I'm Joe and new here, staying in Singapore currently.
Also new to hydroponics.
I have moved some of my hot chili plant which I grew for about a month into kratky method of hydroponics and read somewhere that they need ppm of about 700 and ph of 6.
My current ppm is at 500 and ph 6.7 but seems like the plants are not doing well, the new leaves are turning white, seems like nutrient burn.
What should I do?
The stick is about 6" long.
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joeT
8 years agoHi chuckwagon009,
Thanks for the reply,The water temperature is 28.5C.
A brief history with this setup. I started the setup about 1.5 months ago. Started with 4 plants. Added the nutrients to my best of knowledge, but 2 of them died. I change out about 1/4 of the water with clean tap water and the 2 remaining plants bounced back. 1.5 weeks ago I received my ph and ppm meters. The reading showed ph5.5 and ppm 300, so I adjusted the water to the current reading of 6.7 and 500 and they started to bleach. They have always been in a shady area.
So I should change out 1/4 of the water with clean tap water?
Roots of the large plant.
water soluble fertiliser. In blue colour powdered form.
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chuckwagon009
8 years agolast modified: 8 years agojoeT
8 years agochuckwagon009
8 years agojoeT
8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoHi, sorry for the delay.
Yes, they are growing very well. There are a lot of dark green leaves now and started to flower
There is another problem, there are some white stuff under some leaves, which doesn't look quite right to me, and I pluck the leaves out, about 30 - 40 leaves.
The picture above is after I plucked out the leaves which still have plenty left.
I'm going some basil too and recently the leaves seem odd to me, there isn't anything growing on the leaves but they have small little dots on them.
Not sure if it is of concern.
chuckwagon009
8 years agorobert_1943
8 years agojoeT
8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoHave taken some closed up pictures. Have not notice any crawling insects around the basil, do have 1 or 2 flies sometimes.
Sorry that the picture of the chilli leaves is blur, not sure if you can make anything out of it. Couldn't take a new one as I have thrown them away. The white stuff looks like some insects.
Another question, how does nutrient burn looks like? Something like this? The small leaves and some bigger leaves are "drying up" and dropping off
HI robert, I'm very new to this so just playing around.
My chili plants seems to be doing well and flowering, now that I have add in proper hydroponics nutrient. I am using KRATKY method, once in awhile I will change out some water (may be 3 liters, reservoir is about 32 liters), replace with the same amount of fresh water I take out and add in nutrient according to the amount of water I replaced.
joeT
8 years agoI found the bugs that are causing the problem.
They are very small, took quite some time before I found them even after very close inspection.
chuckwagon009
8 years agolast modified: 8 years agojoeT
8 years ago
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