Today I received a new power board in the mail and immediately installed it. Although I received some very clear instructions on how to properly install the board the following lines will be about my experience carrying said instructions.

As described, I began by removing the power board cover and carefully pulling out each wire, 1-15. Wires 8 and 9 proved to be fairly tricky to remove so a word of caution to anyone who may have this problem. After that, I simply unscrewed the powerboard, replaced it with the new one, and re-attached each wire this time starting from wire 15.

The dashboard then proceeded to give me notifications relating to the problems that were now fixed.

The nutrients level had now read 2400. In order to lower this, I emptied about a quarter of the reservoir and filled it up with fresh water then checked the ppm. I continued doing this until the ppm was slightly below the recommended range and then allowed the bloom to put it back in range.

Once that was done I was given another alert regarding the ph sensor. The dashboard was only reporting an error so I went back into the power board cover, unplugged and replugged wire 14 then turned the bloom off and on again. This seemed to have fixed the ph sensor which then read 8.2. The bloom quickly began adding ph down until it was back within its normal range.

Everything is once again functioning as it should and my plant seems to be responding already. Thanks for all the help!

Today, Day 11, the seed has entered it's 2nd cycle of growth and appears healthy has can be. Can't wait for the results to come.

Day 19 update,

Took these pictures right after sending the plant into Veg 1. I had completed a water change prior to heading into the seedling stage however the ratios of nutrients stay the same into Veg 1 so I did not complete a water change for this phase change. Also, it appears to me that some of the newer fan leaves seem to take on a paler green than leaves that have been there longer, is this normal/ do these plants look healthy? I am a first-time grower so any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks - that sounds about right. We are at and early stage and would need to refill each morning but its starting to taper off.

Hi Everyone! Very excited to be starting my first Bloom grow. My wife and I received our Bloom about a week ago and have just finished setting it up. Looks like we are going to be using the FlapJack recipe in order to proceed with the Indica seeds we had purchased. Can't wait to see what comes next!!!

Day 39 update

Hey everyone,

I recently began a second grow in my BLOOM of Hibiscus Sunrise after an unfortunate accident had occurred with the Clementine Kush during early flower.

After 9 days the seed has been successfully germinated and is off to a strong start. Excited to take this grow on having learned a lot from my first!

Day 16 (Day 9 of Seedling Stage)
Updating on the sunrise. Going to switch to veg and top soon. Everything with the system has been running very smoothly. It seems that every 4-5 days the nutrients go slightly above range in which case I simply add a pitcher of water to bring it back down.

I was also wondering if anyone knew why this was happening to the lower leaves of the plant? The newest leaves seem healthy but the first two nodes have become dry and started browning like this.

Hey everyone,

I recently began a second grow in my BLOOM of Hibiscus Sunrise after an unfortunate accident had occurred with the Clementine Kush during early flower.

After 9 days the seed has been successfully germinated and is off to a strong start. Excited to take this grow on having learned a lot from my first!

Day 46

After tying down and removing some of the larger fan leaves I arrived at this result. Let me know what everyone thinks!

Also noticed some strange growth at the base of the plant. not really sure what this is but it doesn't seem good

Day 45, in the early bloom stage

Now that the plant is this big, does anyone have any tips for managing the height at this state?

Going to do some major pruning later today and will post after.

@i_like_plants yes i did

Day 39 update

Here's what the baby looks like now as of day 21.

Should I begin pruning lower leaves now that it's entered the veg stage?

Today I received a new power board in the mail and immediately installed it. Although I received some very clear instructions on how to properly install the board the following lines will be about my experience carrying said instructions.

As described, I began by removing the power board cover and carefully pulling out each wire, 1-15. Wires 8 and 9 proved to be fairly tricky to remove so a word of caution to anyone who may have this problem. After that, I simply unscrewed the powerboard, replaced it with the new one, and re-attached each wire this time starting from wire 15.

The dashboard then proceeded to give me notifications relating to the problems that were now fixed.

The nutrients level had now read 2400. In order to lower this, I emptied about a quarter of the reservoir and filled it up with fresh water then checked the ppm. I continued doing this until the ppm was slightly below the recommended range and then allowed the bloom to put it back in range.

Once that was done I was given another alert regarding the ph sensor. The dashboard was only reporting an error so I went back into the power board cover, unplugged and replugged wire 14 then turned the bloom off and on again. This seemed to have fixed the ph sensor which then read 8.2. The bloom quickly began adding ph down until it was back within its normal range.

Everything is once again functioning as it should and my plant seems to be responding already. Thanks for all the help!

@pdxbloom apparently the problem was with the ppm sensor.

I believe the sensor was constantly reading the nutrient level it was at when I had made the stage change (623) and in an attempt to raise the level to 800 it kept pumping the nutrients into the reservoir. This lead the reservoir to change to a deep purple color.

Luckily, I caught this the day of the stage change and my plant hasn't seemed to suffer from overfeeding.

In order to solve the issue, I was told to remove the pumps from the three nutrient bottles. Then I emptied most of the reservoir, leaving about an inch or two left, and filled it back up with water, which seemed to dilute the deep purple color that I had seen earlier. I will now be receiving a new sensor system to install along with nutrients to get my plant back on track (I'm not sure who to @ but the help has been greatly appreciated).

I hope this can help solve any future problems