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That is a really good article. If you are looking for the "head high", you will not want a lot of amber. Keep in mind the Trichs don't change color all at the same time. You don't want a lot of clear Trichs either, as the article supports. I'm a retired oldtimer, with a lot of joint pain. For...

I think I would give her 1 more mini-flush of 5.9PH water, before making a call on nutes. Run a gallon through her and make sure the PPM remains low. After that you can try the nutes, if you continue to see bud growth. If the nutes cause problems, you just go back and run the flushing process...

How is the Girl looking this morning? If my math is correct, you are on day 44 (little over 6 weeks) of flowering. Is that right? If so, you are looking at about a 8 week harvest. The trick is to keep your eye on the Trichs on a daily basis. The high salty PPM in the media, was just like a...

The Radio Shack one is hard to use as well. It takes a lot of patience. Try using the 30x while highlighting the Trichomes with a led flashlight. Try to shine the led flashlight through the Trichomes. I like to wait for about 50% of the Trichomes to be at a Amber color, but you will get a lot of...

Radio Shack makes a 60x-100x magnifier that works OK. I typically cut a small sample of leaf with Trichomes on it, and secure it to a 3x5 card with two paperclips. This keeps the sample flat, and makes it a lot easier to use the magnifier...

You are welcome. We ALL make mistakes when we start our first grows. I have 7 coco grows completed, and am still learning. I never felt comfortable posting until I was sure that I had something useful to share. Just out of curiosity, how much water did it take to flush all the crap out? At this...

I would get the PPM level down to 400-500 first, and then just check the PH to see what it is. It is more important that the water going in is at 5.9 or close to it. You may find that the runoff PH is always a little higher than what is going in. If you get down to 400-500 PPM, any remaining...

As you flush, it is not uncommon to see this. When you flush, the bottom of the container is flushed out first, followed through to the top of the container. The excess nute/salt ratio can changed as you flush, and change the PH. The PH of the salt content is typically 7.0, so you are likely...

Good job. The fact that it is dropping is a good indication that the process is working. I would bet that the runoff is full of salt.

It might be the bugs, but I doubt it. You will find that out after pulling the plant for harvest. If the bugs are in the media and eating the roots, you might see this. I have never had bugs like you are seeing so, I am not too sure on this. Also, my trays never get cleaned during my grows, and...

Wow! A PPM of 4,520 is VERY high. Keep flushing and measure the runoff after each bucket of clean 5.9 water going in. Try to take the sample prior to using the towels to soak everything up. Just wring the towels out into a waste bucket. You may never get down to 150 PPM, but you should be able...

This is a good resource for growers. http://www.420magazine.com/forums/how-grow-marijuana/81264-how-grow-marijuana-everything-you-need-know.html

If your Permafrost strain has a 8 week flowering cycle then you can stop using nutes at 6 weeks, and just feed it the PH water. I would water every day, and see how much she is drinking, by watering until a little runoff occurs. If Perafrost is a 10-12 weeks strain, then I would continue to feed...

I am not sure I understand why you can not flush the plant while in the tent. Do you not have a tray under the plants container? I use a Lowes or Home Depot concrete mixing tub in my tents. They are 3x2, and two of them fit nicely in a 4x4 tent. Either way, you need to do a full flush quickly. I...

I am new to this forum, but have been growing in coco for some time. It is a lot different than growing in soil, and is more like hydro. One thing that is very important for growing in coco, is to flush it once a month to flush out the salts and excess nutes. When flushing coco, I use just 5.9...