Big_Lou
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You just don't know your stuff, man. I've got some killer strands at the moment. One time I pulled a 14" strand from a 9" stem!
Do you even strand, bro?
My latest Vert garden
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Do you even strand, bro?
OneHitDone
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ttystikk
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Dang, he said once but i don't remember.
He's only got a few threads though. It's here somewhere.
ttystikk
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Ah. I will admit that it was that very stuff that convinced me to learn more about nutrients and ultimately switch to dry nutrient salts.
OneHitDone
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What's the issue with CES? Hear solid things about it
ttystikk
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I was poor and I was never confident about its contents.
PKHydro
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The GH flora series; micro, grow, bloom, that's it.
OneHitDone
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Any specific formula you like to stick to? Your plants always look on point
Lol whoops, I confused you with someone else!
PKHydro
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I'm in a lot of pain currently and high as fuck, so I don't know how much sense this is going to make...but I'll give it a shot.Any specific formula you like to stick to? Your plants always look on point
I keep It pretty simple, a ratio of 3-2-1.
In veg it's:
3 parts grow
2 parts micro
1 part bloom
I start rooted clones at ~500ppm and work up to ~1000ppm by week 5
When I flip to flower I'll give them 1 week of equal parts at 1100ppm-1200ppm.
After week 1, it's back to 3-2-1 but it's switched to
3 parts bloom
2 parts micro
1 part grow
There are some times in flower I'll notice my plants are a little heavy with N, I'll usually cut the grow and go 4-2-0.5 or even cut it all together and go 4-2-0
Also when mixing food I always mix in micro first, the rest doesn't matter.
I'll try and break it down a bit
Veg
Week 1: ~500ppm
Week 2: ~600ppm
Week 3: ~700ppm
Week 4: ~850ppm
Week 5: ~1000ppm
Flower:
Week 1: *Equal parts food* @ ~1100ppm
Week 2: 1200ppm
Week 3: 1400ppm
Week 4: 1500ppm
Week 5-8: 1600ppm, and at this point, depending on how things are looking I may increase my food to 1700-1800 or even reduce it back down to 1500ppm
Weeks 9-10: I'll usually give the plants a 10 day flush, replacing the res every day with fresh clean water....depending on what's going on in life at the time, it may be more, it may be less.
Edit, I don't know what conversion rate my PPM pen uses but this is the one I have.
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PKHydro
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All good.Lol whoops, I confused you with someone else!
ttystikk
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This is excellent, thank you.
Now, all we need to know are the ratios of nutrients in those three bottles and we'd be able to figure out what the actual applied ratios of nutrients are.
ttystikk
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I'm sorry to hear you aren't feeling well. I enjoyed watching your grows. Are you still doing any growing these days?
ttystikk
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That TDS pen very likely converts to several different scales. It should be able to tell you which ppm scale you're using. The most common ones are EC x500 and EC x700, so it's likely to be one of those two.
I've been using EC for years specifically because of that confusion. When someone asks me to convert to ppm, I ask them which scale they need and it's easy to multiply.
For example, EC 2.0 is 1000ppm on the EC x500 scale, and 1400ppm on the EC x700 scale.
I've been using EC for years specifically because of that confusion. When someone asks me to convert to ppm, I ask them which scale they need and it's easy to multiply.
For example, EC 2.0 is 1000ppm on the EC x500 scale, and 1400ppm on the EC x700 scale.