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My quailty beats the shit out of anything I've had the last 8 years. 8 years ago I ran across ONE grower with better. I kinda think that Mel Frank and pH and Lucas got pretty damn close. Without labs. And it was nearly 20 years ago now. Show me where Lucas recommends that? I've been reading and...

de consists of tiny, super sharp, particles of calcium. It slices up exoskeletons. Any de making it to a nest will cause havoc, yes. *Probably* responsible for at least *some* "expando-weed." Ever take a hit and suddenly your lungs react and feel like they're about to explode? It's right up...

Crazy. I see people having lots of issues finding a nutrient regimen and after all these years I understand why. There's a huge difference in hydro between using a nutrient balanced for cannabis and not. The effect pH swing differences have on quality are minimal, compared to the balance of the...

Your plants are absorbing the elements in your tap-water which affect pH. I get the same effect the first week of flower. I mix the res and use liquid silicon (after setting the pH at my lowest healthy point) to bring the pH up to 5.8. The first 7-10 days, the pH drops instead of rising. The pH...

I use a formula very close to Lucas. Since I'm only giving the plant what it needs, I have no need to see what the ratios are. All I need is a ppm/tds/ec meter to set the original strength. From there, I'm simply watching transpiration rates for nutrient adjustments. Bingo! Yes, that's exactly...

RO does not mess with the natural pH swing, created through plants absorbing nutrients. You want this swing and tap water around the world affects the pH differently. Using R/O ensures zero contamination from the water and also means you won't have to re-learn hydroponics. Should you find...

The pH is because of your starting water. You'll really appreciate the switch to r/o when you make it. None lab tested yet. I can taste and feel fabric softeners from your shirt, if you used 2 dryer sheets with the load of clothes it was in. I can taste and feel them from about 15 feet away...

Set up your gardens with the right temps, use pharmaceutical grade nutrients in the correct balance for cannabis, (be sure you have zero stagnant areas), use r/o water and manage the reservoir the way I explained. You won't have any reason to run a 'sterile' rez or anything. The only issues are...

r/o removes the cyano, which is much larger than the particle size the r/o filter allows through. It's fine.

I'll pit my 3 month flower against your 2 week changout, any day. I live in Fairplay and my next harvest will be in about 3 months. What's more, in time, I'll be able to pay for lab tests as well. I have zero hesitation in stating my cannabis will come out cleaner than anything the methods...

Not in the levels needed for sterilization. At those levels it is excess and a contaminant or worse.

When you follow my recommendations, this is not necessary. I firmly believe in adding only what cannabis requires for growth in the res, chlorine is not required for growth.

That swamp cooler, evaporation going on is great :) Dealt with this and it's disgustingly nasty. The tap water at one location was an infected well. Simply rinsing something in the local water and using it in the res would produce snot in 3 days. R/O machine, all the way. Whatever methods you...

My definition is cannabis which is as close to "only cannabis" as possible, meaning without any residues at all. Yes.

Your temp recommendations are for roots constantly exposed to nutrient solution. When roots are drying out between cycles, there's more oxygen available, I assure you. All systems with roots constantly In solution are handled the same way in the reservoir, with very little differences between...

Cyclic, as in happening regularly. Roots-In is 5.4 to 5.8 in 7 to 10 days, then nutes are added and it's back to 5.4. Roots out has a bit more of a pH swing between feedings, so you start at 5.5 to 5.6, depending on your particular setup/medium, and let it rise to 5.8. F&D is roots out...

Yes, and cannabis needs extremely little to grow awesome flowers. Your flowers NEED a grinder to break up, while I simply have to gently crush a bud against a bowl with my thumb. Look up dynamic and hyper accumulators. Extremely picky as in their environment for growing cleanly. Picky is the...

Yes, for the first 2 months or so, until it's "Mature." You seem to keep missing this point. You should flower your plants AFTER they switch to the alternate branching you get with clones. Once again, because clones are 'mature' enough to grow alternate branching. You will see larger yields...

Yes, they're washed and usually cooked. Not inhaled from something you cannot wash. Yes, you definitely have a bug hangup. A few mites or aphids or whatnot is perfectly fine, for taste and health. You REALLY have a hangup on that. You suggested spraying neem oil at this point, 6 weeks into...

Your buds turn out fine. Yeah, ok. Appreciate the heads up on what's generally in them, I'll pass. You're on the non-sensitive scale. Yeah, we disagree, I'm attempting to educated you on a point you seem to completely miss. Whatever, I'll keep posting you're non-sensitive, any time you...