What the f is going on

kiwipaulie said:
Yes and no, I've just found dwc or rdwc is just so simple I only check my rooms once or twice a week max.
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damn... i check mine every other day. so not bad.. only other thing, doesn't coco give you a bit of a buffer if you mess up or miss a watering? where straight hydro you are screwed faster? just trying to learn.. sorry for hyjacking..
 
icetech said:
damn... i check mine every other day. so not bad.. only other thing, doesn't coco give you a bit of a buffer if you mess up or miss a watering? where straight hydro you are screwed faster? just trying to learn.. sorry for hyjacking..
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All good bro. I have had more issues in soil / cocca than hydro personally. If you are doing dwc etc, it's always in nutrients, just got to make sure they don't run out. I keep it very simple and it seems to work well for me
 
kiwipaulie said:
All good bro. I have had more issues in soil / cocca than hydro personally. If you are doing dwc etc, it's always in nutrients, just got to make sure they don't run out. I keep it very simple and it seems to work well for me
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cool.. well this is only my second set of plants and first in coco... so, will work my way up:) so far coco has been amazing compared to soil though.. stuff just seems to grow much faster than soil at this point.
 
icetech said:
cool.. well this is only my second set of plants and first in coco... so, will work my way up:) so far coco has been amazing compared to soil though.. stuff just seems to grow much faster than soil at this point.
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It's all learning, that's the fun part about it. Once you get your system/processes down, you will be away. The biggest thing I like about straight hydro is the growth and not having to get rid of the medium at the end of the grow.
 
kiwipaulie said:
It's all learning, that's the fun part about it. Once you get your system/processes down, you will be away. The biggest thing I like about straight hydro is the growth and not having to get rid of the medium at the end of the grow.
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Yeah.. i think i can reuse coco, not sure yet.. i tend to research stuff last minute which NEVER turns out to be the wrong way to do it :)
 
icetech said:
Yeah.. they are only about 4 weeks old still pretty small but happy little plants. i don't know where i heard 5.0 for coco. but it's been working well..
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I've read a few posters on here recommend 5.2 if you use RO, which I do. I can't remember who it was. I didn't think anything about it until I double checked my Apera meter which I knew was already a bit off. It was more than a bit off. I thought I was at like 6 or 6.2 but I was a full point off. Doing 5.2 and didn't even realize.

Plants are fine, doing great, so whatever bongsmilie
(we'll see what happens in flower, yippee)

Also, I reuse my coco, just make sure you rinse it well and let it dry, too.
 
HitemwiththeHine said:
I've read a few posters on here recommend 5.2 if you use RO, which I do. I can't remember who it was. I didn't think anything about it until I double checked my Apera meter which I knew was already a bit off. It was more than a bit off. I thought I was at like 6 or 6.2 but I was a full point off. Doing 5.2 and didn't even realize.

Plants are fine, doing great, so whatever bongsmilie
(we'll see what happens in flower, yippee)

Also, I reuse my coco, just make sure you rinse it well and let it dry, too.
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Ahh good to know :) Honestly, i'm not so sure about the whole PH thing.. i think if you aren't off by miles it's fine.. half the time i forget to PH my stuff and it hasn't seemed to matter..
 
icetech said:
Ahh good to know :) Honestly, i'm not so sure about the whole PH thing.. i think if you aren't off by miles it's fine.. half the time i forget to PH my stuff and it hasn't seemed to matter..
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Yeah usually dosing the nutes will bring it down, if you are lucky to within acceptable ranges. I use ice to bring my water temp down, so I do have a bit of tap water, very small. I almost never need to adjust it, and usually slightly up if at all.

And when I started with GH 3 part I used a ton of ph down, especially with tap water. I bought a gallon of ph down. Eeek.
 
HitemwiththeHine said:
Yeah usually dosing the nutes will bring it down, if you are lucky to within acceptable ranges. I use ice to bring my water temp down, so I do have a bit of tap water, very small. I almost never need to adjust it, and usually slightly up if at all.

And when I started with GH 3 part I used a ton of ph down, especially with tap water. I bought a gallon of ph down. Eeek.
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omg.. a gallon... not cheap:) I suck at ph down/up always too much either way..
 
icetech said:
yea.. that made me laugh.. i miss such mundane things a lot.. then duh.. thanks :)
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You're welcome the first grow shop I went to taught me that I was going to get a big bottle of both they talked me into just getting the down the tap pH in my area is like 8-8.5.
 
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