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It only looks like I don't know what I'm doing because in reality, I don't know what I'm doing. The additives all had a purpose, which was just to achieve a certain ratio of N-P-K-Ca-Mg and hopefully enough micros to keep the plant healthy. I'm not saying that I'm doing this correctly, but it's...

I'm fine to dump most of them, I was gifted a bunch of random bottles from a guy who stopped growing so I've been mixing them with GH Micro to use them up, and having decent results so far aside from the overfeed. But I'm sticking with the potassium silicate through the first couple weeks of...

No folair feeding or water spraying.

Damn. Thanks for that. I'll knock back the N sooner next run.

I finally overcame my overfeeding issues. I used to have the worst looking fan leaves. The tops were purple and the bottoms looked like overripe banananas, all the tips were burnt, just a mess. But I did get some decent sized buds. Really nice looking if you trimmed off all the ugly burned tips...

Numbers on the bag are for P2O5 and K2O. To convert P2O5 to P, divide by 2.29. To convert K20 to K, divide by 1.21. If you measure your stuff as "grams per 10 liters", ppm is straight multiplication of grams by the N-P-K (10 grams of 2-0-0 in 10 liters of water would give you 20ppm nitrogen)...

Hey other beer guy. Try ground barley malt in your soil. There's a bunch of enzymes in there besides amylase that are supposed to help break down compost faster and help your plants out. Use the name "Clackmas Coot" in your google search if you want to dig more, I think that's the name of the...

I used to clone without a dome by keeping the coco I was cloning in saturated and cutting small clones so there wasn't enough leaf area to blow off water faster than the cut stem could suck it up. I've gone to a dome (well, clear lid tupperware). The moist coco would sometimes cause one of my...

AN wasn't the highest rated nutrient on Growdiaries, it was the most popular. If you look at the little star rating on the right, you'll see that the vast majority of nutrient lines all average out to a rating of 4.4-4.7 (AN is 4.5, Jack's is 4.7, but with less total ratings than it's popularity...

How are you getting rid of your fungus gnats? I'm in coco so drying out seems to cause salt buildup and burn my tips. Which isn't the worst thing in the world, but I get reinfested almost every time I add new coco to the room so I don't love doing it as a regular thing.

I'll be the lone advocate of measuring runoff in coco. Everyone reputable says it's a pointless thing to measure and I'd take their word over mine, but it helped me a lot. Yes, low runoff ec is a problem, but the way I'd treat that is to feed at around the strength you're currently feeding...

My local store is selling Green Planet nutrients now. Their Medi One is advertised as a one-part organic nutrient that works in coco, beautiful! Except that the feed chart for their one-part feed system included five bottles, and in the middle of flowering medi-one only makes up 12.5% of the...

I've had little dots from mites and from a Ca deficiency. Neither looked exactly like your little dots.

The percent N-P-K listed on the bottle is really the percent of N-P2O5-K2O (so far as I know, I think UK and Australia have slightly different labelling conventions). So when I read comments referring to "PPM of P (or K)", I'm often unsure of what P or what K they're talking about. If people are...

I'm reading some articles and posts where people are talking about PPM of P and (less importantly) K. Can I usually assume that if someone is talking PPM of specific elements (as opposed to ppm on a TDS meter) that they're talking about elemental P/K instead of P2O5/K2O?