Airwalker16
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And One More Thing. If you DO GET r/o, use this chart for your 3 part Flora Trio and CaliMagic nutes. I use it religiously with absolutely outstanding results.
12 Plants Under ~600w Cob Leds
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butterbudface
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i have a differant brand of nutes, they dissolve the airstones into this gell and the air stones break apart.
my nutes on the bottle state way differant numbers than what it says on your chart, do you think its save to just use it as is?
Airwalker16
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Cannabis requires SO MUCH LESS usually than what the bottles say. Which is why you need a TDS meter so once you've mixed, you can check your PPMs are NEVER higher than 600-1000.
Airwalker16
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And If your nutes are DISSOLVING air stones, I would highly suggest throwing them directly in the trash and use GH Flora TrIo. Imagine what it does to those precious, fragile root hairs.
thewanderingjack
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But if you can grow with tap water, than RO is not a must is it?
I mean, for the beginner let's say... an RO system may be too much... should they not try hydro if they can't do RO? How about a small/micro grower (though there's small systems for a decent price, so this is less the thing)?
I think RO is definitely the best you can do to get the most out of the system, and as such something that hydro growers should invest in ASAP, not necessary (barring serious water issues, though a carbon ilter can help with that too, just not nearly as well)
butterbudface
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i like to run my ec around 0.9-1.4 max
My new water source has a ppm of 29, so i will just use that.
churchhaze
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I use really hard tap water (400-500ppm) and it's a pain in the ass to get right. I need to use a formula with less calcium and need a ton of nitric acid. (or pH won't go below 7)
29ppm is as good as RO.
29ppm is as good as RO.
Airwalker16
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Tap water can contain brown algae spores that ruin your roots. It happened to my father's tomatoes, he does rdwc. He switched to ro and now has completed several grows with zero issues.
butterbudface
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They starting to take off nowbthat they have roots day 6 in hydro
butterbudface
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day 8
Update from this morning! I'm changing out the water tonight for some fresh softer water!
the one plant looks unhappy, but i'm sure it will perk up after the rez change.
the droopy one
Update from this morning! I'm changing out the water tonight for some fresh softer water!
the one plant looks unhappy, but i'm sure it will perk up after the rez change.
the droopy one
butterbudface
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I'm not putting anything on the end of my pipes thank you. its how i like it
Uberknot
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So whats the object here just for some info. Lots of bubbles? or faster moving water?
Just trying to get an idea for the goal overall in those tanks where the roots are.
butterbudface
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I put only small amounts of water in at a time, there is only about a inch of water in the tub, and the large bubbles explode misting/spraying the water onto the roots a lot better than with my stones aka smaller bubles.
butterbudface
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Update
Everything ok?
2nd pic top right plant is droopy?
Everything ok?
2nd pic top right plant is droopy?
butterbudface
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Yes it seems like it. Ill keep an eye on her
butterbudface
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Update, adding the screen soon.
Airwalker16
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What brand are those 2 outlet air pumps you use on each tote? Where'd you get em and what'd they cost?
butterbudface
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its a dophin 8500 and they around 10$ each at the petshop @Airwalker16