changing water
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Roseman
Elite Rolling Society
I have 8 gallon tanks with 6 gallons of water. Time I get to Flowering, my plants drink one gallon to one and half gallon daily, everyday.
Everyday, in the evening, I add one gallon of water back with 1/6 the nutes, adjusted up or down according to my ppm meter readings.
Every 7 days, I drain and replinish, during all cycles of growing.
simpsonsampson420
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you should be changing your res water out weekly... every 7 days empty whats in it and put new water and nutes in... top of the res during the week with water... plus if your water is 3 weeks old, and youve been flowering for 11, you either are feeding your plants plain water by now, or if there is any nutes in it at all, they would be veg nutes... so based on that alone you should change it out...
sampson
sampson
Roseman
Elite Rolling Society
Looking at your pics, you should have been using full strenght nutes a long time ago.
what does "will I have to trim" mean? trim what?
chiselsr
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I heard that you should cut off some of the sun leafs that are blocking light.
Im starting to think my space is to small i can hardly shut the door.
Hears some pictures while changing the water.
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Roseman
Elite Rolling Society
Some people will argue with this:
Don't ever remove fan leaves before harvest for several reasons.
1. The fan leaves MAKE AND STORE energy for the plant. The fan leaves are doing a process called photosynthsis, making sugars and carbs, (food) and it is the most important part or task or job the plant does, to make it grow.
If you remove a FAN leaf, the plant will stop growing taller until it can replace that removed fan leaf.
Removing a healthy fan leaf is a big waste of time..they are rapided replaced,, unless you are in the last few weeks of flowering.
2. Even if the fan leaves are yellowing in late bloom I do not remove them until they are almost ready to fall off. The yellowing in the fan leaves at late harvest is the plants metabolism at work. She is transferring all stored energy in the fan leaf to bud production. It is the easiest source of energy she has late in life. Let that fan leaf do its job.
From the Growers Bible by Jorge Cervantes:
Leave leaves alone! Removal of healthy leave hacks up a healthy plant. Removing large or shade leaves DOES NOT make plants more productive. This practice DOES NOT supply more light to smaller leaves and growing tips. Plants need all their leaves to produce the maximum amount of chlorophyll and food. Removing leaves slows chlorophyll production, stresses the plant, and stunts its growth. Stress is a growth inhibitor. Remove only dead leaves or leaves that are more than 50 percent damaged.
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Don't ever remove fan leaves before harvest for several reasons.
1. The fan leaves MAKE AND STORE energy for the plant. The fan leaves are doing a process called photosynthsis, making sugars and carbs, (food) and it is the most important part or task or job the plant does, to make it grow.
If you remove a FAN leaf, the plant will stop growing taller until it can replace that removed fan leaf.
Removing a healthy fan leaf is a big waste of time..they are rapided replaced,, unless you are in the last few weeks of flowering.
2. Even if the fan leaves are yellowing in late bloom I do not remove them until they are almost ready to fall off. The yellowing in the fan leaves at late harvest is the plants metabolism at work. She is transferring all stored energy in the fan leaf to bud production. It is the easiest source of energy she has late in life. Let that fan leaf do its job.
From the Growers Bible by Jorge Cervantes:
Leave leaves alone! Removal of healthy leave hacks up a healthy plant. Removing large or shade leaves DOES NOT make plants more productive. This practice DOES NOT supply more light to smaller leaves and growing tips. Plants need all their leaves to produce the maximum amount of chlorophyll and food. Removing leaves slows chlorophyll production, stresses the plant, and stunts its growth. Stress is a growth inhibitor. Remove only dead leaves or leaves that are more than 50 percent damaged.
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itsgrowinglikeaweed
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Just checkin your work Roseman! Sounds real good. LMAO
Just kidden! You are very helpful to us all. Thanks a bunch!!
itsgrowinglikeaweed
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You have your Macro elements N-P-K (Nitrogen-Phosphorus-Potassium), and you have your MICRO elements, like copper, magnesium, iron, zinc,copper, boron, and theres more. The Earthjuice is a mix of the micro elements. You can use it but you have to be careful that you have the proper proportion of macro and micro nutients. Hope that helps ya some.