A Cannabinerd's Journey

AlphaPhase

AlphaPhase

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So I've added one more product for my beneficial reservoir. It's an algaecide called algaefix. I added it last night and this morning the res water is much more clear :) I'm extremely pleased with the beneficial res now. I'll be using them in flower from now on.

I also have the maxi series nutrients FINALLY figured out. It 100% was under feeding the whole time I've used it. It wasn't tip burns on the leaves that I've always seen, it was just yellow tips from N deficiencies.

I'm at 1100ppm (1.6ec) now with the glue about 3.5 weeks into veg and they are looking the best I've ever had them look. Really lush. The ghostriders are only a few days into veg and already at 850ppm (1.2ec). The ghostriders are not completely locking out upon transplant like many of my gear was doing and the appear to already be growing.

Don't be afraid to feed more with the maxi series in ebb and flow with hydroton. They NEED THE FEED!! 8-)
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Aero has also dropped off a temperature controller for the flower room so I won't have to worry about the Temps anymore. Really stoked about that.
 
AlphaPhase

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Oh, before I forget to mention this..

Enthromysin. It's used as an antibiotic for people that are allergic to pennecilin I believe? But it can be bought in a fish store with out a rx as it treats fish disease as well.

I've been reading that if you get the "brown slime algae", this product may be a cure.. Which is pretty much unheard of for the algae (which is actually not algae at all, it's a cyanbacteria).

20mg per gallon. If anyone gets root rot, this could potentially save your crop. There's not too much info about it, and this is new to me, but it is valuable information :)
 
eastcoastmo

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AlphaPhase said:
Okay awesome! That'll work out much better :)


Right on bro, next time I buy some seeds I'm going to grab some exotic and archive, so many new strains using fire plants now, it's awesome that you can now get the clone only strains in seed form and sometimes they end up better than the clone only! Enjoy those beers brotha, you deserve em!
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Yeah agreed bro, so happy the clone onlys have made it to seed, means us Aussies can get access to good quality genetics ;)
Thanks heaps bro, the beers will be flowing very soon!!
 
eastcoastmo

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That's awesome about your bennies and feeding too bro, so happy to hear you got it sorted!! Can you please give me a run down of what you are using at what stages?
Also, that's bizzarre about the erythromycin, I'm highly allergic to it but it is a plant based antibiotic so no surprises it can be used to treat cyano's. Cyano's are very common in the marine world on coral reefs, they mostly bore into and degrade the corals but are also a massive source of food for productivity for plankton :)
 
AlphaPhase

AlphaPhase

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eastcoastmo said:
That's awesome about your bennies and feeding too bro, so happy to hear you got it sorted!! Can you please give me a run down of what you are using at what stages?
Also, that's bizzarre about the erythromycin, I'm highly allergic to it but it is a plant based antibiotic so no surprises it can be used to treat cyano's. Cyano's are very common in the marine world on coral reefs, they mostly bore into and degrade the corals but are also a massive source of food for productivity for plankton :)
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Thanks man! It definitely took long enough, so much conflicting info about what strength of nutes to use so I finally just took it into my own hands and figured out what works for me lol.

Here's what I'm using right now in veg.

My tap water is 100ppm.
I add about 120ppm calmag and 20 ppm of Epsom. Then I add about 250ppm of maxibloom and 250ppm of maxigrow. That give me about 750-800ppm. This is for newly rooted clones. I'll run this for about 2 weeks and when I do add backs/ top offs of water, I'll add only maxigrow and adjust ppm back to 800ish. Then I'll change the res at 2 weeks into veg and add the calmag and Epsom and then just maxigrow to 1000-1100ppm. I used to use silica but I've discontinue the use for the past month or so, I may use it again but I'm not sure at the moment. If I was using silica, you need to add it FIRST before all other nutrients because it falls out of suspension in the water that had a high ppm.

Then flower stage comes after about 4-5 weeks of veg. Same amounts of calmag and Epsom and 50/50 maxigrow and bloom nutes for the first 2-3 weeks. Then maxibloom, epsom and calmag only.

My beneficial res schedule is as followed :
For fresh reservoir 25 gallons-

- API tap water conditioner added first @ 1 drop per gallon before adding the nutes and hydroguard.
-then add nutes and mix well
- then add 3ml per gallon (4 liters) hydroguard and mix well
-then add 1/2tsp of pond zyme with barley
-then 1/4tsp of pond zyme 2x a week
-algaefix as needed (1/2tsp per 20 gallons of water, very potent!)
 
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AlphaPhase

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Kushberry twins in dirt. There about ready for the flip to 12/12 but since i waited too long to transplant, I'll give them a little while.
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The temp controlled is installed :)
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And the roots!!! This is why all flood trays should be covered. Man, I need to live what I preach and get my veg trays covered, SOOOOOOO much more root potential. I can guarantee that these gg4 would be no where near as big as they are now if the tray wasn't covered (and they are so tiny from the shitty veg they got) but the root mat will boost yield and vigor at least 20% to make up for the errors they went through. And whoever says roots don't grow much in flower is full of shit. These had ZERO roots going into flower. And the only roots I they did have were dead. This is all new roots.
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hippy132

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AlphaPhase said:
Kushberry twins in dirt. There about ready for the flip to 12/12 but since i waited too long to transplant, I'll give them a little while.
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The temp controlled is installed :)
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And the roots!!! This is why all flood trays should be covered. Man, I need to live what I preach and get my veg trays covered, SOOOOOOO much more root potential. I can guarantee that these gg4 would be no where near as big as they are now if the tray wasn't covered (and they are so tiny from the shitty veg they got) but the root mat will boost yield and vigor at least 20% to make up for the errors they went through. And whoever says roots don't grow much in flower is full of shit. These had ZERO roots going into flower. And the only roots I they did have were dead. This is all new roots.
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any worry about the light from the temp controller ?
 
eastcoastmo

eastcoastmo

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AlphaPhase said:
Thanks man! It definitely took long enough, so much conflicting info about what strength of nutes to use so I finally just took it into my own hands and figured out what works for me lol.

Here's what I'm using right now in veg.

My tap water is 100ppm.
I add about 120ppm calmag and 20 ppm of Epsom. Then I add about 250ppm of maxibloom and 250ppm of maxigrow. That give me about 750-800ppm. This is for newly rooted clones. I'll run this for about 2 weeks and when I do add backs/ top offs of water, I'll add only maxigrow and adjust ppm back to 800ish. Then I'll change the res at 2 weeks into veg and add the calmag and Epsom and then just maxigrow to 1000-1100ppm. I used to use silica but I've discontinue the use for the past month or so, I may use it again but I'm not sure at the moment. If I was using silica, you need to add it FIRST before all other nutrients because it falls out of suspension in the water that had a high ppm.

Then flower stage comes after about 4-5 weeks of veg. Same amounts of calmag and Epsom and 50/50 maxigrow and bloom nutes for the first 2-3 weeks. Then maxibloom, epsom and calmag only.

My beneficial res schedule is as followed :
For fresh reservoir 25 gallons-

- API tap water conditioner added first @ 1 drop per gallon before adding the nutes and hydroguard.
-then add nutes and mix well
- then add 3ml per gallon (4 liters) hydroguard and mix well
-then add 1/2tsp of pond zyme with barley
-then 1/4tsp of pond zyme 2x a week
-algaefix as needed (1/2tsp per 20 gallons of water, very potent!)
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Bro, you rock! Thanks for such a detailed response :-D going to have to try and locate some of this stuff and give it to my girls, your results speak enough :)
 
AlphaPhase

AlphaPhase

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eastcoastmo said:
Bro, you rock! Thanks for such a detailed response :-D going to have to try and locate some of this stuff and give it to my girls, your results speak enough :)
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No problem at all bro! Hopefully you can find the ingredients over the pond :) using the bennies has seemed to be a game changer for a clear and clean res. I was always scared that if the good bennies get their Butts kicked by the bad ones, really bad things can happen. But I figured I'd try it and I love it. I know that the chemical nutrients and ph adjusters can hurt the bennies, but the bennies also multiply, so I just add a tsp of hydroguard to the Res once a week to be safe, I don't think I mentioned that 8-)

This water was brown about a week ago and I never changed it (i had an algae problem that kept changing my water brown a day after a res Change, so instead of changing it, I added a double dose of bennies and enzymes and the algaecide. This is 3 days or so later, squeaky clean, no slimey crap on the res walls and clear (the nutes turn the water a lime color though)

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eastcoastmo

eastcoastmo

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AlphaPhase said:
No problem at all bro! Hopefully you can find the ingredients over the pond :) using the bennies has seemed to be a game changer for a clear and clean res. I was always scared that if the good bennies get their Butts kicked by the bad ones, really bad things can happen. But I figured I'd try it and I love it. I know that the chemical nutrients and ph adjusters can hurt the bennies, but the bennies also multiply, so I just add a tsp of hydroguard to the Res once a week to be safe, I don't think I mentioned that 8-)

This water was brown about a week ago and I never changed it (i had an algae problem that kept changing my water brown a day after a res Change, so instead of changing it, I added a double dose of bennies and enzymes and the algaecide. This is 3 days or so later, squeaky clean, no slimey crap on the res walls and clear (the nutes turn the water a lime color though)

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I'm sure I can find the exact ones or if not something very similar ;) your res looks nice and clear now, they must be working wonders!!
Good work on getting the glue beans, you can only grow them out and see how good they are :-D and that mendo breath looks dank af!!
 
AlphaPhase

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Gdp @ day 35. They are just so slow to fill in but they smell great
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Gg4 at day 28. They are stacking nice since they weren't topped, pretty cool for a single cola. I think I had some heat issues because they aren't as full as they usually are, but now I got the temp controller they should be fine.
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Ghostrider at day 7 I think, they are starting to grow now and look nice and healthy, no lockout this time :D
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And here's a comparison of 7 days using the bennies with the glue, hugggeeeee growth since the super crop session :)
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