I have made mistakes with it too. I use the 200 in my veg room and the 680 in my flower room. Both are always at 100% and 18-24. It is a philosophy introduced to me by @ultrapuff who is also a Growers Choice user.
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18-24 I believe are the instructions on the box, but who reads and follows instructions
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Temp is fine, RH also, although 50 is getting low for this temperature, try to stay in the 60-65 range.
Alright, pH can be a little lower, 6.2 - 6.3. 6.5 is getting high for coco. Definitely stay below 6.5 and keep it stable, I mean, always the same pH, at least through veg because the roots are getting used to a certain pH level also.
Do you only water on sunday? You might want to decrease the volume you give at once and increase your number of waterings/week (I’d say at least 2-3 times a week) to avoid dry pockets in your medium. Roots die in dry pockets. You also want to water even, to make sure everything is moist, again to avoid those dry pockets. Especially coco is sensitive to this problem. Its also advisable to include a straight water watering in your schedule, say after 2 or 3 nutrient waterings. PH’ed of course and if you use distilled or RO-water, I like to top that up with calmag to 0.4 EC. This every 3 waterings “flush” is to prevent salt build-up around the roots and eventually nutrient lock-out.
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Thank u guys so much for the advice yah I meant to put teaspoons not tablespoons excuse my stonerness hahah for my nutrients and the reason I’ve been only watering once a week because my fabric pots is still heavy with water most the way threw the week and I heard that cannabis like a dry wet period so I was just trying to prevent over watering
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And I also think it mite be a root problem too because I can’t t find and deficiency’s that look like my plant ant advice and helping my roots?
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Oh and the one tip that never gets old (on watering): Don’t follow any watering schedules by the days, just water when your plants require it. Try lifting the pots, get a hang of how they feel when they’re still good and when they need water. Or get a soil moisture meter but a small scale homegrower can definitely go without one.
I’d give your plant 2 - 3 times straight water now (again, pH’ed!!! and cal-mag if necessary) to reset and then go from there. This might help you flushing out a potential salt build-up. Try to really pay attention on how you water, maybe pour a little bit spread over the entire surface and come back later like half an hour and pour the rest so your medium can really soak up all the water evenly.
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Well, I’ve never grown in bags. It would help to know if he is using a soil coco mix. If it is a soil coco mix it probably has some dry spot in it. If the pH of the media he is using is around 7, he would need to bring his water/nutrient mix down to around 6 pH. I think that everyone has given him good advice base on what is known!
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Looks like a cocomix for sure. You get dry pockets in em so easily. Especially in these fabric pots.
What water are you using @jlang0022 ?
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And you heard that well and doing the right thing then! But I would decrease the volume a bit, so your plants will be more thirsty after say 2-3 days. Less chance of overwatering and less chance of dry pockets.
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I just use Dechlorinated tap water as of right now and yah I use a coco perlite medium
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Test your tapwater’s EC before adding anything to it. What does it say?
And watch out with “dechlorinating” tapwater by letting it evaporate / airstone. Tapwater usually doesn’t only contain Chlorine (Cl) but also Chloramine (NH2Cl). The last doesn’t evaporate, so you can’t get it out by letting the water sit in a bucket. Liquid fishtank dechlorinators work.
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Heard thanks so much I’m going to try doing just that watering less and more often and I’ll take a break from the nutrients see if that helps I appreciate all the positive feedback!!
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No worries mate, that’s what we’re here for!
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And I’m definitely going to look into that declorinator and start testing my tap to see what it reads at
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See, I used my towns tapwater a while ago and got in trouble all the time. It read 0.7 EC straight out the tap, so it is very hard (rich in minerals, more specifically calcium). Just too much. On top of that I’m sure there is a lot of chlorine in our tapwater, most likely also chloramine. I didn’t want to use the liquid dechlorinator tho, so now I’m getting water from a nearby spring with a 0.3 - 0.4 EC reading. 
If you’re serious about it, you might want to invest in a RO-filter. This is absolutely still the best way to go whatsoever.
You could buy distilled water as well, but you’d be surprised how many trips to the store you’d have to make 
(been there done that)
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A Blue Boogie water filter will filter chlorine and chloramine out of your tap water. I think @sssportsmfg was having a similar problem a couple of weeks ago.I am going to go back and read his thread to be sure.
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Check out this thread about post 468. https://forum.growersnetwork.org/t/sssportsmfg-2022-grow-log-100-organic-x-runtz-x-bruce-banner-x-candy-store
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Do u guy think that boiling ur water will eliminate the chlorine and chloramine
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You could also get a water distiller and do a gallon at a time, it only takes around 3 hours to distill a gallon.
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