HELP- first hydro build and grow

[Gator]

I have a bucket of water ready to go downstairs,, I'll fill the other black bucket and hook up the air stone, the I'll mix in the nutes at half strength and add some great white tomorrow

[Gator]

These pictures might help , this is what I am giving her now

[Gator]

She gets those and these tomorrow

[Wayzee]

Magic potions. i wouldn't worry too much about the bloom nutes at this stage.

[Gator]

I changed the water and gave her half strength nutes, I'll wait a little while and check the pH again

[Gator]

I followed the feed chart and pH the solution to 6.3, the first set of leaves are a little yellow, let's see how it goes

[Wayzee]

Can you get the pH under 6?

[Gator]

I have the pH down to 5.9

[Gator]

I have a theory, the pebbles are letting light into the system, that's why I don't see the root growth I expected, and maybe I have a solution

[Gator]

The small clay pebbles are substrate that I bought for the aquarium when we bought live plants

[Gator]

I just checked the pH and brought it back down to 5.7, I mixed the nutes at half strength and the ppm is 552, if that's too much what should I do, remove some of the solution and add some plain water??, probably distilled water would be best??

[Gator]

Also, would the high ppm be the cause of the yellow leaves??

[Gator]

I'm going to try to feeding her for a few days and see if she looks any better

[Ckbrew]

My experience comes from coco/p grows, I like pH 5.8. Idk how or if that translates to DWC. I'm interested in this grow as DWC was one of the options I considered when first started growing. I decided not to run a DWC because of temperature issues. It would need either a AC, chiller, or ice bottles changed out all the time. Grow on.

[Gator]

5.8 is what I target every day

[Wayzee]

I think the yellow might be from a couple of reasons the water was too high, therefore the Rockwool stayed too wet and suffocated it at the start, also could be because you haven't fed her anything until now and she is very hungry. I think you need a feed chart for those nutes you using, be easier to know how much of what you should be adding, a count of 550ppm could be made up of not the right amount of this and too much of that if you know what I mean... You gotta get the amount of each ingredient right, then check ppm if it too high then dilute and check pH and ppm again.