Harvest a Pound Every Three Weeks!

got some ice today germing now tell you how it turns out anybody try ice yet?

jem said:

got some ice today germing now tell you how it turns out anybody try ice yet?

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Ice from Nirvana? Sorry stinkbud hope you don't mind me talkin bout this in your thread!

Hey stinkbud was that bubblegum A fun one to take care of? I had one mother going once and she sure did drink alot.... Just got A strawberry cough clone to turn into A mother and can't wait, still looking for A G13 clone!!!!

Ive got a serious question...my flush has begun, this morning before lights out i drained the res and cleaned it twice, and let the pump run on tap water for an hour before adding my 150 ml of clearex and then back to 1 on 5 off. Tonight at lights on my ppm to my astonishment was at 590. I changed the res again and repeated...guess what? 590. I filled up a glass of my tap water and guess what? 590.

I studied the flush chapter and it says you keep your ppms below 50 at flush. wow this just sent me for a loop!!!

If my tap water is 590, and ive been keeping my ppms at 2000, does this mean that in reality my nutes have been kept at 590 below 2000?

Could this be the reason why the buds didnt seem to be as big as i thought they should be?

It just never really occured to me to check the tap ppm,, and what shall i do?

Thanks.....the worried pregnant mother...

I run just plain PH balanced RO water for 2 weeks, I havn't tryed any flushing agent's.... This seems to be doing great, my buddy adds A sweetner at this point and swears it helps the flush.

hey stink i am going to finish this crop then try your setup. i am using ebb and flo and top feed drip. Never did aeroponics so i am a little iffy. but everyone in this post said it is amazing. i went to home depot and though i will get all the supplies after this harvest. i will post pics in a few weeks harvest 4 strain chocolope, northern lights, blue mystic, and afgan. still got some more seeds for next harvest tring ice ak47 and i wanted to get a good indoor puple starn what is a good one with some purple buds. antway the nutes i use ase general hydrponics so are yours that much better i use flora micro bloom and grow also pure blend vegan tea and floricius plus. They give me great results cost about the same as yours i compaired what do you think next harvest with your aero setup shouls i use my nutes or yours. i am just liking top feed and flood and drain a am a little nervous about aeroponics. You think they are better. should i swithch what is better?

jem said:

got some ice today germing now tell you how it turns out anybody try ice yet?

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if you dont mind me asking were did you order your ice from and what part of the world are you located? the reason i ask is i ordered some from nirvana and they havent came yet and its going on a month since they were shipped out THANKS FOR THE INFO !!! oh yea are you starting a journal on the ice i would like to see it in action

hope i can pull it off i wanna see the water flow in and out of pvc .

im gonna try some crap misters but w/e!

DIRTHAWKER said:

Ive got a serious question...my flush has begun, this morning before lights out i drained the res and cleaned it twice, and let the pump run on tap water for an hour before adding my 150 ml of clearex and then back to 1 on 5 off. Tonight at lights on my ppm to my astonishment was at 590. I changed the res again and repeated...guess what? 590. I filled up a glass of my tap water and guess what? 590.

I studied the flush chapter and it says you keep your ppms below 50 at flush. wow this just sent me for a loop!!!

If my tap water is 590, and ive been keeping my ppms at 2000, does this mean that in reality my nutes have been kept at 590 below 2000?

Could this be the reason why the buds didnt seem to be as big as i thought they should be?

It just never really occured to me to check the tap ppm,, and what shall i do?

Thanks.....the worried pregnant mother...

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Sounds like you need to calibrate your ppm meter to me. If your tap water is really 590ppm I'd be out getting a RO system. I have been using Reverse Osmosis for all my water from the start because my water is pretty hard. I haven't checked but I believe my water is above 200ppm. I've never heard of water being at such a high number like 590ppm but I'm sure it's possible.

Let us know what you end up doing

DP

Thanks for chimming in dragon.. Im gonna recalibrate right now, i hope thats the reason,, if it is i think i can live with that, the plants grew like crazy in any case. I just remembered i dont have any solution.

DragonPhoenix said:

Sounds like you need to calibrate your ppm meter to me. If your tap water is really 590ppm I'd be out getting a RO system. I have been using Reverse Osmosis for all my water from the start because my water is pretty hard. I haven't checked but I believe my water is above 200ppm. I've never heard of water being at such a high number like 590ppm but I'm sure it's possible.

DP

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The EPA's acceptable limit for drinking water is 500 ppm. I'm in a private community on well water and they struggle to keep us right at 500 ppm, that is to say very hard water. If Dirt is on city water, 590 ppm seems like a misreading - on well water though, I'd believe it.

city water here... this morning the reading in the res went up to around 700... it must be a calibration error.

If it is an error,, does that mean ive miscalculated the nutes?

don't sweat it yet! recalbrate and go from there. I recalibrate about every 3 months

DIRTHAWKER said:

city water here... this morning the reading in the res went up to around 700... it must be a calibration error.

If it is an error,, does that mean ive miscalculated the nutes?

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DIRTHAWKER said:

city water here... this morning the reading in the res went up to around 700... it must be a calibration error.

If it is an error,, does that mean ive miscalculated the nutes?

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mine is like 260 here. well water. taste great though. when I brita filter it with the thing on my faucet it drops like 1 ppm. like picasso said 500 is when the epa says not to drink. isnt there something that is like a standard to test it against. like my calibration weights for my scales. or isnt that what the tds solution is for? Ive only used mine once. still waitin on my seed order from attitude.

Stinkbud, with ur building abilies why havn't u built A trimmer yet? I havn't eaither but want just lazy.

stofmonster said:

Yum yum
damned the scissor the blisters anyway

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DIRTHAWKER said:

Ive got a serious question...my flush has begun, this morning before lights out i drained the res and cleaned it twice, and let the pump run on tap water for an hour before adding my 150 ml of clearex and then back to 1 on 5 off. Tonight at lights on my ppm to my astonishment was at 590. I changed the res again and repeated...guess what? 590. I filled up a glass of my tap water and guess what? 590.

I studied the flush chapter and it says you keep your ppms below 50 at flush. wow this just sent me for a loop!!!

If my tap water is 590, and ive been keeping my ppms at 2000, does this mean that in reality my nutes have been kept at 590 below 2000?

Could this be the reason why the buds didnt seem to be as big as i thought they should be?

It just never really occured to me to check the tap ppm,, and what shall i do?

Thanks.....the worried pregnant mother...

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That's really high bro! Anything over 200 should be filtered through an RO machine first.

Don't worry though, It's probably just calcium in the water. Do you end up with a lot of white deposits on your shower head? That's Calcium.

What you want to flush is the N, K and P. Try increasing your dose of Clearex and run it for and extra day or two. 150ml is the minimum recommended dose. 450ml is max.

If you have the cash go buy an RO machine at Home DePot. The bigger ones are faster but not better. Smaller ones are fairly cheap.

With clean water you should see an improvement in growth since you will be adding 500 PPM of nutrients (N,K,P) instead of 500 PPM of Calcium (hard water).

One solution is to stop using CalMag in your nute formula. You don't need it. Then just save your water from the dehumidifier for your flush. The dehumidifier water is clean and perfect for flushing. I always drain my dehumidifier into the flushing res (if I have one going).

I just built my own RO system in my thread for my setup. I had 450 PPM in my water, now I have 5PPM and produce 50GPD.

https://www.rollitup.org/do-yourself/144086-diy-36-site-aeroponic-homebox-4.html#post1868314

I have a water softener and the salt build up was bad for everything!

trouble9039 said:

I run just plain PH balanced RO water for 2 weeks, I havn't tryed any flushing agent's.... This seems to be doing great, my buddy adds A sweetner at this point and swears it helps the flush.

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Clearex has sugars in it just like Sweet. It also has some of the nutes that are are need for the final growth stage.

You see some nutrients can be moved from the leaves to other parts of the plant when needed. These nutrients are refered to as mobile. That why the leaves turn yellow during the flush but the buds stay green. The Nitrogen is moved to the buds.

Some nutrients are immobile though. Clearex adds a small amount of these nutes to allow the plant to keep growing and using the other nutes that are mobile.

I've read you can get a better flush with a 15% nute/water mix than with just plain water. That's kind of what the Clearex does.

Here is what Botanicare says:

CLEAREX ™ can also be used at the end of a crop’s growth cycle to trigger the last reproductive stage of the plant, forcing it to process and assimilate endogenous nutrients. CLEAREX ™ contains specific electrolytes and selected mono and disaccharides which provide energy for the biosynthesis of important plant metabolites and macromolecules. Preharvest treatments with CLEAREX ™ are known to enhance the flavor and increase yields in fruits, vegetables, and culinary herbs by flushing out extraneous chemical nutrients.