What am I doing wrong here

This is my second grow, first one turned out really well but growing differently this time.

growin in fox farm ocean forest and plants are 2 feet and some maybe bigger tall

2gal pots. Spider farmer sf4000x2 dimmed to 50 percent

about 18 inches from canopy

so the soil obviously ran out of nutrients by now so I’ve been feeding remo nutrients at 600 ppm . Grow. Micro. kelp. A bit less than a full tablespoon of epsom salt . Calmag . Sometimes diamond nectar and hygrozyme. and my plants are pretty pale looking when they were very dark green and healthy before run off ppm is around 600 too maybe a couple plants were 8-900 ppm runoff but here’s some photos. Do I have root aphids? I found some spider mites but been spraying now and then with alcohol or neem or peppermint. What do u guys use for IPM?

here’s some photos what am I doin wrong? Temp I just dropped down to 21c to try and eradicate spider mites

any one use nematodes ?

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Mr. Grow It

Feb 23, 2021

What pH do you feed in and what is the pH of the runoff?

Thumper420

Feb 24, 2021

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Weird maybe it stressed them into flowering. might try revegging those plants it’s just a couple of them. Oh well. I found out that the nutes I’m using even being in soil is best absorbed at 5.8-6.5 range so maybe if it’s higher (6.5-7)? It won’t absorb those . Not sure gonna keep ppm around 6-800 and ph 6-6.5 see if any improvement but really want to flip soon . Not if they looking like that

Thumper420

Feb 25, 2021

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really confused why there so hurtin lookin

Mr. Grow It

Feb 25, 2021

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@Thumper420 Are those 1gal containers? Do you plan to transplant up into larger containers? Sometimes it can be difficult to grow bigger plants in small containers. Especially in plastic containers, they can get root bound and that can negatively impact nutrient uptake.