Help with my hydroponic recipe

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gymfean

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Posted yesterday but never got a reply so I figured I'd try again.

This is my first hydroponic grow I've only done soil in my last five years of growing. I'm using the General Hydroponics 3 part line and B'cuzz Bloom. There in 6 inch cubes on a 4-foot by 8-foot flood table 50 gal res, I'm using 2 600 watt lights ( I have 1000 watt lights but figured I'd save on the power bill and see how these do).

I am 24 days into flowering and they're looking very healthy, between a foot and a half to 3 feet tall. Buds are developing very nice. I'm having no problems at all, but I do feel that they should have a little more crystals on them then they're showing at the moment.

My question is the General Hydroponics line of grow, bloom and micro with B'cuzz Bloom good enough or should I add something else to the recipe?..... I prefer not to go too high on the PPM though, the PPM is right now are at 1040-1080. And PH is 5.5.

Thank you in advance for your tips and advice.
 
Tupapa

Tupapa

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gymfean said:
Posted yesterday but never got a reply so I figured I'd try again.

This is my first hydroponic grow I've only done soil in my last five years of growing. I'm using the General Hydroponics 3 part line and B'cuzz Bloom. There in 6 inch cubes on a 4-foot by 8-foot flood table 50 gal res, I'm using 2 600 watt lights ( I have 1000 watt lights but figured I'd save on the power bill and see how these do).

I am 24 days into flowering and they're looking very healthy, between a foot and a half to 3 feet tall. Buds are developing very nice. I'm having no problems at all, but I do feel that they should have a little more crystals on them then they're showing at the moment.

My question is the General Hydroponics line of grow, bloom and micro with B'cuzz Bloom good enough or should I add something else to the recipe?..... I prefer not to go too high on the PPM though, the PPM is right now are at 1040-1080. And PH is 5.5.

Thank you in advance for your tips and advice.
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U should do the KISS approach
 
MickFoster

MickFoster

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The KISS method is 7 grams (1 tsp.) of GH MaxiBloom in tap water, pH'd to 5.8. That's it for the entire grow. Been using it for years and I never have a discolored leaf. It's basically the Lucas Formula.
 
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gymfean

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Captain Keg said:
KISS - keep it simple, stupid.

Meaning, don't over think or turn this into something it isn't.
Stress the plants, not yourself.
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Understandable, I just know when I was growing in soil everything was a little more crystally at this stage, a little more Sparkle to it..... I was hoping doing hydroponic like this I would get that same look and results.
 
Captain Keg

Captain Keg

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gymfean said:
Understandable, I just know when I was growing in soil everything was a little more crystally at this stage, a little more Sparkle to it..... I was hoping doing hydroponic like this I would get that same look and results.
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I personally find a plant grown in hydro is a bit like a guy on steroids.

Hydro will obvousily yield more as long as it's set up correctly & the conditions are correct.
I grew for about two years in soil, I found the plants will grow a little slower but soil but I'm setting up for a bucket dwc grow next.

It comes down to what suits yourself best.
Try all the mediums you can, hydro is a bit more technical with ph, temps, etc.

How far along are you into the grow?
 
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gymfean

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Captain Keg said:
I personally find a plant grown in hydro is a bit like a guy on steroids.

Hydro will obvousily yield more as long as it's set up correctly & the conditions are correct.
I grew for about two years in soil, I found the plants will grow a little slower but soil but I'm setting up for a bucket dwc grow next.

It comes down to what suits yourself best.
Try all the mediums you can, hydro is a bit more technical with ph, temps, etc.

How far along are you into the grow?
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Yeah everything in my room is perfect, my PPM is about 1060 my pH level is 5.5 my temperature never gets above 81 degrees. But I like to keep it at 78 degrees.

At the moment I'm 25 days into flowering today. As I said everything is looking good, nice and healthy and the buds are developing well. I'm just used to the plant crystallizing a little more than it is at the moment. There are a good amount of crystals just as not as many as I'm used to when I do a soil grow. Maybe my recipe isn't strong enough?

I'm just using general hydroponics 3 part series grow, micro and Bloom with B'cuzz Bloom, I feel like I could add something else to help with the crystallization I just wanted to start out safe than sorry.
 
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