Ph and ppm stabilizing? Not moving!

[HolyCrap]

Wfat I’m using:
Hydroguard
Botanicare silica
Maxi bloom dry nutes from gh
Botanicare cal mag

Since I started using this dry nute I lowered my cal mag to 1ml per gallon in 5 gallon solution that’s inside a 12 gallon hdx tote.

The cal mag and silica make up about 200 ppm and the dry nutes make up 600 ppm for total of 800ppm.

My ppm wil go from 800 then stop at 6 something and ph will not move after that. But I added more cal mag last night and it started eating again....

My top off is in PhD ro water with hydroguard that’s at like 7.0 ph from tap.

Why is it stopping after a couple 100 ppm and not doing anything for days after?? Just ph and ppm stay stabilized not one budging up or down....

 

[rkymtnman]

Why is it stopping after a couple 100 ppm and not doing anything for days after?? Just ph and ppm stay stabilized not one budging up or down....

does it keep drinking after it drops to 600?

if ph and ppm are stable and it's drinking, you have found the perfect ppm level that the plant needs.

 

[HolyCrap]

does it keep drinking after it drops to 600?

if ph and ppm are stable and it's drinking, you have found the perfect ppm level that the plant needs.

Yes it’ll keep drinking water but no nutes and both ppm and ph stay same. It tripped me out cause always used to ph going up and ppm going down or opposite way then flush or dilute.

 

[boilingoil]

1 ml. a gallon of the cal-mag+ should give you around 75 ppm in RO water is the rest of that 200 ppm is silica?

 

[rkymtnman]

have you tried not using the cal/mg?

i use maxibloom too and didn't need cal/mg with ro water.

but yeah, i preferred the ppm to drop constantly. it made me feel better to know she was always eating

 

[HolyCrap]

does it keep drinking after it drops to 600?

if ph and ppm are stable and it's drinking, you have found the perfect ppm level that the plant needs.

1 ml. a gallon of the cal-mag+ should give you around 75 ppm in RO water is the rest of that 200 ppm is silica?

yes it has to be I think it came out to 190 ppm after adding cal mag and silica

 

[HolyCrap]

have you tried not using the cal/mg?

i use maxibloom too and didn't need cal/mg with ro water.

but yeah, i preferred the ppm to drop constantly. it made me feel better to know she was always eating

Yes I did but I thought I was seeing a little bit of early rust spots so I just added the least I could at 1ml per gallon.

 

[boilingoil]

Yes I did but I thought I was seeing a little bit of early rust spots so I just added the least I could at 1ml per gallon.

What type of lighting are you using?

 

[HolyCrap]

What type of lighting are you using?

Hlg 600h @400w
To be precise when I mixed nutes above in first post I had 800ppm @5.5ph, then it stopped at 670ppm at 6.3ph. After one day of this same ppm and ph I added cal mag @around 1ml per gallon and got 760 ppm and PhD to 5.5 and it started eating again shortly after.

 

[rkymtnman]

Yes I did but I thought I was seeing a little bit of early rust spots so I just added the least I could at 1ml per gallon.

that's cool. some people just use it because they think they need it. carry on.

and as an FYI if you don't know, you can also foliar spray with cal/mg if you need to fix a deficiency quickly. its' faster than thru the roots.

 

[HolyCrap]

that's cool. some people just use it because they think they need it. carry on.

and as an FYI if you don't know, you can also foliar spray with cal/mg if you need to fix a deficiency quickly. its' faster than thru the roots.

Where’s the like button lol

 

[boilingoil]

Where’s the like button lol

Need more post before it'll show up.

 

[HolyCrap]

that's cool. some people just use it because they think they need it. carry on.

and as an FYI if you don't know, you can also foliar spray with cal/mg if you need to fix a deficiency quickly. its' faster than thru the roots.

I was needing before when using rx nutrients as it didn’t have any of it on the bottles description of Nutes on top of using ro water. Talk about seeing deficiency quick!

 

[HolyCrap]

Need more post before it'll show up.

Haha just showed up!

 

[boilingoil]

Temps of your room?

 

[boilingoil]

What style of growing ?

 

[HolyCrap]

What style of growing ?

Temp is around 77-80 lights on and around 66 lights off. Was gonna do Scrog but ended up only using it as a support for now. Seems I should of been tucking plant during veg but indica was so short and bushy. I set Scrog when I flipped and it’s just support system now.

 

[boilingoil]

Temp is around 77-80 lights on and around 66 lights off. Was gonna do Scrog but ended up only using it as a support for now. Seems I should of been tucking plant during veg but indica was so short and bushy. I set Scrog when I flipped and it’s just support system now.

I mean what are your roots in?

 

[HolyCrap]

I mean what are your roots in?

Water? I’m doing dwc in a hdx tote, net pot with hydroton.

 

[HolyCrap]

I mean what are your roots in?

12 gallon tote almost half full of roots