Advanced Nute question, EBB and Flow

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jetter770

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I have an ebb and flow system and was sold a three part Advanced, Grow, Micro and Bloom from my local shop. I have some newbie questions. I got a hold of Advanced today and was told the PPM recs on the back were for soil and a once per week feeding followed by 6 days of water. He gave me a custom PPM schedule and told me to run at one fifth of those values for ebb and flow. The first week of VEG at 300PPM divided by 5= 60 PPM. My tap water is 150PPM. Do I add or subtract this number? I don’t see a way to get to 60ppm and it all sounds a little off any recs?
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Youngling

Youngling

Active Member
jewgrow said:
you bought advanced nutrients? haha you got suckered
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Unnecessary........


Use distiller water instead of your tap. Distiller has a ppm of 1 or less. This should help you a touch until you get more experienced. It's helping me.
 
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warnerwh

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You subtract the ppm of your water. Your tap water is fine to use. Be careful with the nutes. It's way smarter to make sure you are on the low side of the nutrient concentration. Go over much at all, which is easy, and you will pay. Try some Dyna Gro like master gardeners use. Peter's or Jack's classics or pro fertilizers are excellent and inexpensive. They are more than likely superior to AN nutes. At least I figure if the most knowledgeable people that grow plants use the fertilizers I've recommended then it's good enough for me. Remember they are only plants. They have no special needs and all the extra crap out there will likely do more harm than good. There are many people who think they know more about plants than the most knowledgeable horticulturists, some of which have a phd, but what do you think? Btw they base what they say on science, not opinion.
 
jewgrow

jewgrow

Well-Known Member
warnerwh said:
You subtract the ppm of your water. Your tap water is fine to use. Be careful with the nutes. It's way smarter to make sure you are on the low side of the nutrient concentration. Go over much at all, which is easy, and you will pay. Try some Dyna Gro like master gardeners use. Peter's or Jack's classics or pro fertilizers are excellent and inexpensive. They are more than likely superior to AN nutes. At least I figure if the most knowledgeable people that grow plants use the fertilizers I've recommended then it's good enough for me. Remember they are only plants. They have no special needs and all the extra crap out there will likely do more harm than good. There are many people who think they know more about plants than the most knowledgeable horticulturists, some of which have a phd, but what do you think? Btw they base what they say on science, not opinion.
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thank you warner, dont buy into the hydro store bullshit. its all normal products with expensive labels
 
UrbanAerO

UrbanAerO

Active Member
distilled water has ppm of of 0?? where do you live? when i get tap water its 350ppm, 2 days later that same water after being distilled is 300ppm . only way to get ppm of 10 or less is RO filtration or if your lucky you live in the mountains where youhave maybe 50 ppm tap water. Besides the point, I switched to advanced nutrients for two weeks, connissuer a and b at half power nutrients and burned the shit outta my plants, in the 5 years of running house and garden aqua flakes I have never seen that kind of reaction. I grow aeroponics and my buddy does soil and he even had problems with advanced nutrients. I would try a cheaper nutrient like general hyrdo or botanicare is decent, but I think House and Garden Vann De Zwaan productsare worth the extra cash.
 
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