lets have a look .....I will answer what i can point by piont
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2 4x4 ebb and flow tables with 2 40gl res. answer ........ excellent me too except have 8 4x4
AN 2 part A,B, carbo load, big bud, bud blood, sensi szym, and bud factor X answer ........ good nutrients
Now, ill start with the nutes prices, I spent around $800 for an 8 week flower nutes. answer .........thats insane , your spending way too much here .I use cutting edge solutions .......just the 3 step basic line.... micro grow and bloom up rest will cause nutrient lock out and do exactly what has happened to you... everyone is trying to sell you shit you dont need..... MORE in hydro is not better... start with the basic line up of whatver then add your improvements as a test and then build up to where you wanna be ......my nutrient line up is this.
cutting edge solutions ..micro grow and bloom. molasses from earth juice liquid karma SPECIAL additive gravity purple maxx bushmaster .. CAUTION these three shits are dangerous to your crop use very little and use no nutrents for the days you add these thriple troubles .. but results are insane ...if you fuck it up and follow there exact directions frybaby for sure ... tust me on this one .. better skip it if your a thickheaded ass.
here it is start to finish.
change res every2 weeks
ph 5.5- 6. 2 leave it the fuck alone if its in this range.
res temp 68-70 ish.
3 cfi bulbs in homemade rig over ez cloner
2 t5 8 bulb lights fixtures on veg and rooted clones
1000 hps on movers over each 4x8 area
suplemented with 16 cfi on rails along light mover over each 4x8 area
clones in a ez cloner plain water 2 weeks
use hydro guard in everything..except ez cloner all the way to flush except the gravity purple maxx bushmaster 3 stress days
rotted clones in table 1. 200ppm 2 weeks
babies in tables 2. 1000 ppm 2weeks
flower in bud tables 3-8 1200 ppm 4-weeks
move light as high as possible or turn off then gravity purple maxx bush master lowest strength on label for 3 days with nothing but frsh water.then flush .. turn light back
flower last 3 weeks back to normal nutrents 1200 ppm
clerex last 5 days .
then flush with water .
last 24 hours turn off all water and lights
harvest..
cost ...
cutting edge is cheap like 20 -25 bucks for each micro grow and bloom... last for about 4 water/res changes or more so 75 bucks or so for 2 months
earth juice molasses is 20 bucks for a gallon a double shot glass treats a 70 gallon res. 20 bucks for a six months
budswell cheap 25 bucks laqst a long time ..
gravity is expensive 35 bucks but you only use a little bit so it last for 6 months
purple maxx is real expensive 80 bucks but again only the least bit used last 6 months
bush master again real expensive 30 bucks last 6 months
hydro guard in everything
so my whole cost starting with nothing is 300 but it last for several months ....
i hardly ever have to buy the additives like twice a year .
i buy the main nutrients like every 2- 3 months ..
moving on
So each res change will cost me around $90. I am fucking pissed about the bud blood. If anyone used this product will tell you its like adding cool aid dye to your nice white res. It stained everything. And when I added the carbo load the first time it clumped together like semen in hot water! This does not make for an easy res change. As you will see from the pics im not working with a lot of space.
answer.......... 1. cut your cost on nutrients 2.stop changing res every week ..every 2 weeks is better because it gives a change for beneficial bacteria to take hold..
answer ... bud blood stains...... everything is going to stain your shit thats just the way it is dont worry about that ..... when you change your res... dont scrub it down just drain it flush it and refill it...you want that benifical slim to grow not over grow but grow.... its gonna get a little grimmy and thats a good thing....only sterilize it if you have problems or something but if things are going good.. leave it alone .... maybe a good break down and though clean twice a year if you must..
answer............. when i first started doing hydro i tried carbo load and opted for earth juice molasses for carbs instead .... cheap and better.
DONT LOVE IT TO DEATH!!!!!
I followed AN nute chart found on the AN web site, moderate to heavy feeding chart. There is a lot of speculation on how to add and ideal water temperature, im still confused of what is ideal.
answer...... scrap those nutrients if you are confused.... check out cutting edge you will thank me.. then just use the three micro grow and bloom follow the instructions on the bottle ..then add molasses bud swell and liquid karma to get your ppm exactly where you want them ..forget about their other shit it will fuck up marijuana... trust me
1st mistake was not PH balancing the Rockwool. I had 40 clones from 4 different strains which im transplanting from root riot cubs into the Rockwool. The clones have been under 24hrs of light for 60 days. Im not sure if they sat too long which may have weakened them please comment on this issue. But due to the clone height I was told I would only need to veg then for a week then put them right into flower. "I veg under a 400w MH light"
answer .....I HATE ROCKWOOL.. i use hydroton .... its easy to use you cant fuck it up and you can reuse it with a simple washing its good as new so you never have to buy it again ....but too each their own
SO thats what I did. The first week called for 1000 ppm of nutes. I added the amounts indicated on the AN chart but my ppms were only 650, so I added more A and B to get the 1000ppm< Is this the correct way to bring up the ppms.
answer ...... NO .. if you add certain nutrients out of order you will cause nutrient lock out...this one is tough because you have to account for the parts per million of your water and a multitude of other factors ..AND did ya make a measuring mistake .. measuring mistake is a critical fuck up... if my ppms are way off i just start over ... and pay closer attention .. to bring up ppm if its in range use other goodies like molasses and budswell and liquid karma ... you know stuff that will not fry you plants..
to find the way to get ppm for your water take a gallon of the water you use and mix up a test gallon and record your results .. then adjust up or down according to your waters needs ..record the ammounts it took to get your water to the proper ppm and that is the ml per gallon your water needs to get in range...it waste a few ml of nutrents but then you know....leave 200 ppms off to add goodies like molasses budswell and whatever else they sell ya..lol..
or you can fuck around with complicated math ratios and hopefully not fuckit up....
how is ypour water???
my water is well water so i filter it through a tall boy andkeep a close check on the ppms of my plain water .... my water runs at 250ppm filtered so i have to correct for this...or get nutrent lock out ..
Week one the plants blew up all is well! Im a pot rock star and then some start to show signs of stress in week 2 and im getting crazy ph imbalance everyday. From 5.5 to 6.8 in like 20 hrs. I then pulled water from a Rockwool cube and test it ph was like 7.2 and ppms were like 1300. So I ended up nute burning them in week 2.
answer .... classic example of nutrient lock up..
Then I come home to find out my lights never turned on all day due to a faulty power strip!!!!!! Not sure how bad this could have fucked them up so please comment. So now im in week for and you can see from the pics that they all look like hell so out of 40 5 are the most unbelievable plants I have ever seen. But they have stopped their vertical growth.
answer the light stay off is no big deal for 1 day forget about it..first 2-4 weeks or so is called the streach where they get taller then they stop or slow way down and start to really fill out and pout on wieght... one week of flowering then stop you probably have nutrient lock up and have shocked the plants ..stunted ..they may recover but they will never be as good as they could have been..
I was trying to revive the dying plants by using AN revive, and nothing helps I want to trash them but until the next batch is germinated im going to try to learn as much as possible so please comment so we all can learn from my stupid ass!
NOT a bad idea but stop spending so much on them .. but get this grow behind you and learn form it
Now the pics i have posted also show the 5 plants that recieved all the same nutes and they are beautiful! This is were my confusion sets in. This loss had to be due to the clone process and how long they sat under 24hrs light, and not vegging them long enough prior to shocking them with the high level flower nutes. What do you guys think?
Answer....... NO each strain takes different nutrient stress and tolerate fuck ups differently .... thats why growing is so tricky.. what works for one strain will fry another...thats why ts best to have one or two strains in a system and twick that system to that strain..
anyway good luck and i hope any of this helps you
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