Ignore your run off. I never measure my coco/perlite run off. Worry about your feed's pH going into the plant. You want your nutrients and water to be right about 5.8 in the 5.5 to 6.0 range. Every 2 weeks I pass a good amount of liquid through her to flush any retained nutrients and then I'm back to feeding the next day. My girl day before yesterday. She's surviving
I took it to show someone supercropping.
imo this just means that they are drinking more then they are eating.
ya bump up your ppm's
i see.
First are you 500 or 700 cal for your ppms.
After mixing my nutrients my PH comes out to 6.5 and I water with that. Renfro has a big grow journal on here and he prefers to water at 6.5
I learned that when in NFT. However my understanding is Coco provides a buffer substrate with an occasional microbial herd which can hold, and to some degree process, dried salts until osmotic conditions are such you get a higher or lower run off reading making these data unreliable.
I really encourage you to stop measuring run off. It's meaningless in coco since you build up excess salts on the substrate that are removed by an osmolar gradient when you water once every other week with either tap water or a low TDS nutrient solution (roughly about 200-300) to set up the gradient. That's the flushing you should do in hydro and partial hydro.
What do the guys plants look like at harvest? Many people bump up the PPM's to levels I would never use and harvest with crispy fried leaves that many people these days think is normal. A healthy plant ready for harvest will not have crispy fried leaves. The only thing that should be crispy fried is chicken. You can harvest a fully ripe plant with healthy green leaves.
Well said! When taking advice in a grow store it's important to note the principle of "cui bono" (who benefits). I've harvested tons of lovely green girls that smoked like tasty velvet.
