c5rftw
Well-Known Member
so this the biggest colas of my four clones that were grown with (6)-65w CFLs 2700k from the start... the last two weeks had 12 65w CFLs... the light was always kept 8-10 above the tip of the plant... once they got a ft. tall.. these were vegged for 3 weeks flowered for 8 weeks
i started out using the stealth hydro nutes for grow and bloom...also, my plants did not start off well...I started really paying attention to the ph and my PPM(or strength) of the nutrients... these ended up at 2500ppm with no burn.I say ended up at because there in no garuntee that every plant can handle that... and some will grow more with less than that...
once i was monitoring everything well, things started to pick up... also i got good digital ph gauge and PPM meter... I have never added PH up/down after i adjusted it in my resevior..
i just use a 18 gal. resevior that is a plastic sotrage container from home depot for 5 bucks... I got a 1 gal water container and filled it up 6 times and poured it all into the container, now i have my water level, then i would add the nutes i wanted and adjust the ph...
i would always let my roots dry out for 10 minutes while i literally flushed the old res. water and cleaned it everytime(with just water) then i just pour in my pre-mis solution...
I soon realised that stealth hydro nutes are SHIT!... as they gave me HEAVY magnesium def. i very quickly got cal-mag+ from bonticare and added it every time by the measure of 200ppm or 25ml for me....i also switched to flora nova series nutes... these are the simplest you can imagine and they work great... I still added the cal-mag+ everytime...
I would never let my res water get older than 10 days and never less than 1/3 full.
I also got a ZERO water filtration system... this gave me 000PPM...
the lighting