Alright this is mainly for me to reflect back on.
After reading my notes and changes I made post flood, I think I know what’s going on. Going off Botanicares feed chart I eliminated the grow base in favor of the bloom base, but in doing so essentially removed all nitrogen and have a surplus of PK which was exacerbated by the healthy microbial environment that increased the availability/ uptake of nutes the rootzone (excessive burn).
Long story short I think it’s lack of nitrogen and excess P/K, and my planned fix is to reintroduce grow base back into soup at a 50/50 ratio with Bloom base until week 6 - then I’ll go Bloom base only. These things would account for color and burn, so I’m fairly confident this is the root cause.
I’m averaging the following increases with every 10mL doses into 7.5 gallons of water:
+ .1 EC veg base
+ .1 EC bloom base
+ .2 EC cal mag plus
+ .1 EC (6mL dose) Elite Root Tonic
Right now I’m at 1.5EC overall with a heavier veg base. Going to see what tomorrow looks like. As long as it’s not worse, I’ll keep bumping up veg base and calmag daily.
Buds are huge for 21 days, just the leaves that look like shit. We’ll sort that out soon enough.