3 days on jack's 5-12-26 and the plants are loving it! Bye bye General Hydroponics forever

hydroScript.js said:
Damn...always trying to clown someonw...did u even graduate? Plus I got a fire job as an software engineer so..my life is sweet...hater haha
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I went to the University of Phoenix. My job at the time paid for me to go through the MCSE program. I never finished it though. I had my MCSE before the course was even over as I went through the coursework on my own and started taking the tests. The program was a joke and that school is a shady pay for diploma mill. They were letting people into the MCSE program that had absolutely no computer experience at all but did qualify for financial aid. But that's how all these kinds of schools operate. Like ITT which got shut down. I remember going through resumes at one of my jobs during the hiring process and anyone listing ITT as education got tossed in the "Don't Call" pile. I think University of Phoenix falls into a similar category. They prey on people in dead end jobs that qualify for financial aid.
 
hydroScript.js said:
Damn...always trying to clown someonw...did u even graduate? Plus I got a fire job as an software engineer so..my life is sweet...hater haha
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It wasn't a personal slight but an institutional one. As @xtsho mentioned, they enroll any warm body eligible for financial aid. Graduation and job placement rates were so dismal, they had their accreditation threatened. I'm sure some good realtors graduated from Trump University as well.
 
Billy the Mountain said:
It wasn't a personal slight but an institutional one. As @xtsho mentioned, they enroll any warm body eligible for financial aid. Graduation and job placement rates were so dismal, they had their accreditation threatened. I'm sure some good realtors graduated from Trump University as well.
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They have more staff to recruit students and help them get financial aid than actual instructors because that's how they make money. They should shut down all of these diploma mills like they did ITT. All they do is suck off of federal government financial aid program. The students end up wasting a bunch of time to ultimately find out that the piece of paper they spent years getting is basically worthless to potential employers.
 
jonnynobody said:
Wow that's interesting. I get weird leaf anomalies if I run my usual 1.8 EC with jack's. Every environment is different though, and if that's what the ladies want for lunch you better serve that shit up :) I tried the recipe at 3.6g jack's and 2.4g calcium nitrate, but it was too strong. The canopy didn't look healthy and tip burn was evident. My lights are very close to my canopy though. Jonny has low ceilings in his flower room. As a result my plants drink a lot more water than a flower room in which the lights were placed higher. The leaves are sweating at a much higher rate and as a result they drink much more water. I have 5 that are drinking daily now. 2 of which are now drinking twice per day. I haven't even entered the 4th week of flower yet. I'm going to have to upgrade to 10 gallon buckets after this cycle. Watering 2-3x/day is bush league shit man :)
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I'm guessing you haven't caught on to "smaller pot, bigger colas" with coco yet eh? Turns out, with a root bound system that has an exceptionally short wet dry cycle, the duration of that cycle has a huge effect on plant size and vigor. I grow Jurassic bushes in 1 gl pots in coco fertigated via continuous drip. Its cannibus on the Audubon with cruise control.
 
newguy41410 said:
My RO water comes out at 7 pH. Both my old RO system and my new RO system outputs 7 pH water. Which makes it all the more confusing for me trying to pinpoint what exactly's happening

(I currently have four buckets of four different water sources and I mixed in Jack's and am measuring pH as time goes by to see if there's a correlation anywhere. Trying to determine if it's the source of the water causing the pH drift)
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RO water will actively absorb CO2 from the air to form carboxilic acid and settle out around pH of
5-5.5 this can occur on varying levels even after adding nutes. I usually stabilize it with an air pump, let it bottom out so it's saturated with CO2/carb acid, before adding nutes and pH adjustment.
 
ttystikk said:
Sounds a lot like Westminster, Colorado- right down stream and down wind from the former Rocky Flats "nuclear triggers" manufacturing facility.

Those "triggers" were in fact fission bombs designed to be installed in hydrogen bombs to create the conditions for fusion to occur.

So not only tons (literally) of fissile nuclear materials but also loads of highly poisonous stuff like beryllium and other materials handled routinely by corporations completely indemnified against any liability for their misuse, misplacement or contamination.

Tasty!
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I know it well. I lived in Broomfield (north of Rocky Flatts) and we referred to it as "The bomb farm".
 
I used to live one county over from one of the test sites in central Nevada (thankfully not downwind) so I feel your glow my brothers!
 
Anyone running Jacks in Autopots? I’m trying to dial in the ppm and get a schedule down. In the 1000ppm using 3:2:1 with 250ppm tap water I seem to do okay. If I push the ppm to 1200-1300 they green up, but seem to have issues in late flower with a deficiency or toxicity. They make it to harvest; just prettier sometimes than others.
 
Under the Radar said:
Anyone running Jacks in Autopots? I’m trying to dial in the ppm and get a schedule down. In the 1000ppm using 3:2:1 with 250ppm tap water I seem to do okay. If I push the ppm to 1200-1300 they green up, but seem to have issues in late flower with a deficiency or toxicity. They make it to harvest; just prettier sometimes than others.
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I try to give a few waterings without nutes before flipping to flower and around week 5 (in coco)
 
dwc420letsgo said:
I try to give a few waterings without nutes before flipping to flower and around week 5 (in coco)
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I am switching to coco soon and have always been told, NEVER plain water in coco. It strips the calcium and magnesium from the media. Hopefully someone with hands on experience will chime in?
 
Cabrone said:
I am switching to coco soon and have always been told, NEVER plain water in coco. It strips the calcium and magnesium from the media. Hopefully someone with hands on experience will chime in?
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I do straight tap water for first week from seed but my tap is 350ppm so I would feed at 200-400 at most for seed or clones. You can get away without watering daily and let them dry back a couple days doesn’t bother them and you will know when they are too dry they will show you they are thirsty
 
Cabrone said:
I am switching to coco soon and have always been told, NEVER plain water in coco. It strips the calcium and magnesium from the media. Hopefully someone with hands on experience will chime in?
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I mean, you do you. I am speaking from experience. It all depends on how you feed. I feed at around 1200ppm and I let the coco dry quite a bit so the salt builds up over time. When I notice a the tips starting to burn I cut off and just give water with calmag. If you are feeding at lower ppm til you get about 10% runoff then yoh probably don’t need to. Blindly following any advice will not get you far. Everyone’s environment is different. What works for some don’t work for others.
 
Cabrone said:
I am switching to coco soon and have always been told, NEVER plain water in coco. It strips the calcium and magnesium from the media. Hopefully someone with hands on experience will chime in?
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Don't use water only, especially RO or distilled. Tap can contain varying levels of cal and mag.

There is good reason Corey received 14 likes for this.

Watering coco and feeding routine

Hey everybody question about coco. Been told not to let it dry out and to water one day and feed the next. My pots are 10Ls and the plants are only small so they dont drink a lot so the coco is always wet if i follow that watering schedule. Do i just give small amounts of water each time or do...
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If you water until runoff then yeah you will strip nutrients off the media but if you have salt build up (eg 5-6.0 ec) and only water to resaturate, you wont have any issues.
Note this is for when you have salt build up. Otherwise always feed nutes
 
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