Aussie Growers Thread

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klx

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Aussieaceae said:
That makes a lot of sense thanks saffa. i appreciate the exchange very much.
Has this any relation to Brownian Motion?

If the salinity of the nutrient solution was higher than that of the coco coir, and in a DTW approach. Do you think it would have the potential to collect sodium from the coir on the way through?
Not as a base. But maybe a useful flushing solution. Periodically, if it was immediately followed by your base nutrient?

Would it help dissolve the salt better and make it easier to drain?
If also taking into account sodium's own effects on osmosis? And immediately followed by your base feed?

Irrelevant questions and situation to the grow in question now. But it made me really curious about it.
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Saffasteve said:
Those kinds of questions are above my pay grade. From my experience with growing in coco using a handful of different methods I don't think you should need to go to such lengths flushing. When I first started using it in the late 00's I was taught to feed till 10% run off and flush every 2 weeks with straight water, but now I feed multiple (up to 10 x a day) with minimal run off , never flush unless necessary and then if I do I use 1/4 strength base nutrients. It's a better idea to concentrate on preventing buildup rather than worry about flushing. House and Garden drip clean used correctly will totally prevent salt buildup while saving you from having to have large amounts of run off.
I like to run high humidity and lower E.C feeds aswell
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Those questions are also above my pay grade and brain capacity but I agree with Steve on this. Flushing coco is a waste of time and stalls the plants and from my experience and dodgy testing practices I reckon if there is an issue it is usually user error anyway so I just triple check my res then flush the shit out of them with full strength feed ensuring lots of run off. Saves having to mix up a new batch ;)

High humidity and low EC for the win so the ppms are low to start off with anyway.

As it happens I was just flushing some Bunnings coco this arvo and after 2 rounds of the hose the run off was still 500ppm but after 3 drenches it was down at 80ppm. Im gonna say that the salinity of the coco at this point is pretty low.

@Aussieaceae I still havent got any plants in the ground but soon!!!!
 
Saffasteve

Saffasteve

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Nughead78 said:
They look great,at 2 months obviously less impressive and i see the size of your containers. I generally grow in the ground out bush but this is my first outdoor in pots as its my back yard. Nice pic on 3rd month i love it when they hit that power growth stage. What is the strain?
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Middle one was Starflight Guava and the 2 either side were Uplift
 
bursto

bursto

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Saffasteve said:
Those ones were getting a 30L of 20-20-20 fertiliser through drip lines every second day and foliar spray of kelp, aloe , cmb , brix fix and fish hydrolysate twice a week. I use a Stihl mistblower for foliar spraying which makes a huge difference in the efficacy of the spray
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nice plants, great thanks, now im looking on ebay, for a mist blower :wall:

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f.r

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Saffasteve said:
Those ones were getting a 30L of 20-20-20 fertiliser through drip lines every second day and foliar spray of kelp, aloe , cmb , brix fix and fish hydrolysate twice a week. I use a Stihl mistblower for foliar spraying which makes a huge difference in the efficacy of the spray
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You using the brix fix from nutri tech? Have been interested in that product for a while, tried to get more info about it but couldn't.

How do you like it?
 
Saffasteve

Saffasteve

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f.r said:
You using the brix fix from nutri tech? Have been interested in that product for a while, tried to get more info about it but couldn't.

How do you like it?
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What info were you trying to get?

I chuck a heap of different things at them so it's tricky to say how effective 1 particular product is but it works out pretty economical and seems to work well with the rest of my spray mix
 
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f.r

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Saffasteve said:
What info were you trying to get?

I chuck a heap of different things at them so it's tricky to say how effective 1 particular product is but it works out pretty economical and seems to work well with the rest of my spray mix
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Just was mainly wondering if it had fulvic acid incorporated into it or if I should use my own.
 
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