My plant is currently 21 days into 12/12 (8 ball kush). My current ppm is about 625 and the plant likes it. My question is the technnaflora feed schedule is starting to call for an increase in certain nutes like bc boost, bc blossom and sugar daddy which will raise my ppm. How can I incorporate those nutes without raising my ppm which my plant currently likes ?? Should I decrease the other nutes like magic cal, b1-red, etc ??? Or maybe my plant will like the added nutes in the middle to later stages or flowering ??? Because I was told most plants can't tolerate a ppm over 800 in DWC...
DWC feed schedule question TECHNAFLORA nutes HELP
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justugh
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ok guy i am not sure 100%
this is your grow and have fun with it ..............i messed my dwc up by doing the RDWC plan in my bucket ...........it grow a monster plant 1 plant a 4x4x6 tent full
my ppm are way over the range it should of been and it should be at now ..............growing by the numbers does not work all the time it is why this is a artform and u can make mad money going legal with good skills
u need grow/micro/bloom ..............all that other stuff is called stackers and they have bunch of them your main worry is the micrbos (feed/replacement) then it is root support and then it is increase intake of goodies fallowed up by taste enhancer/color/thickeners/resin production then u finally finish with a flushing
u just need to find a good base for growth stage ..........then when it is time to start flowering lvl everything out ........and in full flowering increase the bloom/micro and remove/reduce grow
i change my water once a week ........frist day just replace the water ph ....2nd day i add in some extra feed (depends on stage and exps on) 3 day just water 4 day add one gallon of feed mix in 5 water 6 some extras 7 water repeat /increase move to next stage in the plant's cycle
this is your grow and have fun with it ..............i messed my dwc up by doing the RDWC plan in my bucket ...........it grow a monster plant 1 plant a 4x4x6 tent full
my ppm are way over the range it should of been and it should be at now ..............growing by the numbers does not work all the time it is why this is a artform and u can make mad money going legal with good skills
u need grow/micro/bloom ..............all that other stuff is called stackers and they have bunch of them your main worry is the micrbos (feed/replacement) then it is root support and then it is increase intake of goodies fallowed up by taste enhancer/color/thickeners/resin production then u finally finish with a flushing
u just need to find a good base for growth stage ..........then when it is time to start flowering lvl everything out ........and in full flowering increase the bloom/micro and remove/reduce grow
i change my water once a week ........frist day just replace the water ph ....2nd day i add in some extra feed (depends on stage and exps on) 3 day just water 4 day add one gallon of feed mix in 5 water 6 some extras 7 water repeat /increase move to next stage in the plant's cycle
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Bucees
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Holy shit that plant is a damn monster. How long did you veg that behemoth?
This plant nutes have been steady around the 625 mark. My question is for example in a few weeks the ratio of BC Bloom to say magical cal will go to 6 to 1 ratio (15ml to 2.5ml) where now it is 4 to 1 ratio (10ml to 2.5ml). Get my drift ??
jpbeach28
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I also use the recipe for success. The thing here and like Just said is why ppl who are good can make mad money growing. They listen to they're plants! Everyplant is different when it comes to feeding. In dwc or in most any hydro system. Change your res, lets just say to 600. Then check it over the next couple days if your ppm have gone up you know its drinking more water so back off. If they drop then they want more so take it up. I do a couple of different systems, dwc being one and when I add nutes once a week, afterwards when I top off, no matter what stage I top off the res with cal/mag water @ 250 ppm. I only change res once a week. I didn't come up with this I got it from hygro hybrid who you can check out on you tube and absolutley knows his shit. Rambling sorry already high. Anyways check him out.
justugh
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it is a barney's farm blue mammoth...........that pic was of day 55 from starting (the day the seed went in the rockwool)
currently on day 61
it got so big the main cola had to be cut off due to touching the light and heat damage
the veggie on it was only 45 days or so it is a autoflowering strain..............becuase the water was so rich the plant grow like this so that PPM stuff is crap.............it is all about the mix and suppling maximum goodies with out wasting the feed
once i figure out the right combo of stackers i will share it out i think i got a winning combo going but i will not know untill i get it down and test the smoke for taste and all that good stuff
Okay, but Technaflora calls for some nutes to stay the same through out the grow, while other nutes likes bc bloom and sugar daddy go up after like week 5 of 12/12.. How do I put the bc bloom and sugar daddy in without making ppm go up ????? Do I cut back on the other nutes like b1-red, etc ???
justugh
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fuck the ppm
mine is 1530 ppm on day 62 (checked it last night) just moving from early bloom to mid
mix up your grow/micro/bloom ........according to what ever plan u are fallowing ..............anything else u add now is called a stacker the ppm from that does not matter since it is not really part of NPK ...............bc bloom and sugardaddy are not part of the NPK they are filling in other parts of the plants needs ..............most stacker have no really NPK rating some have a small amount but nothing that will effect the plant in a negivitive since u have a base of what u have
heck i just checked mine .............2030 ppm i added some voodoo juice for my roots
mine is 1530 ppm on day 62 (checked it last night) just moving from early bloom to mid
mix up your grow/micro/bloom ........according to what ever plan u are fallowing ..............anything else u add now is called a stacker the ppm from that does not matter since it is not really part of NPK ...............bc bloom and sugardaddy are not part of the NPK they are filling in other parts of the plants needs ..............most stacker have no really NPK rating some have a small amount but nothing that will effect the plant in a negivitive since u have a base of what u have
heck i just checked mine .............2030 ppm i added some voodoo juice for my roots
With that high of a ppm there is no way you are doing DWC... U must be doing some other form of hydro ??
justugh
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yes a dwc my very first one here is the link u can get details and see pics of about 2 3 weeks worth of change
guy i am not shitting ........i am not one of those ppl that tell other ppl stuff to mess them up i am sharing with u what i know and have done
Fergman
Member
^ I agree with him. I also use a dwc rig using the same Technaflora nutes and my ppm is about 1000 in veg and 1400 in flower and that baby got huge! Got 7.5 oz off of one plant of chemdawg. Been running like this for a few years with little issues.OP, if you want the range you are looking for, mix it up like they say and add more water to it until you find the range you like.
How big of light do you use?? I veg under a 150watt for 1 month then either use a 175 hps or 250 hps and get 3oz or 4oz..
justugh
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the light he uses is part of it
but the big thing is the root ball and it's intake ...............that was the whole exp i was running the strain and yeild of the plant is only limited to amount of feed and water the plant can use and take in during the life cycle
if i had kept the amounts lower i would have a more normal looking plant and not a mass bush in a tent .................improving your root zone making sure micbros are taken care of and feeding them extra goodies at key timing points
as for your lighting it all gets into lumens depth ...........yes more power does get u a bigger plant but u have to do the feed to get it to maximum goodness .......and any system can be upgraded with some side lighting to get more lumens on the lower lvls
grab your self a notebook (something u can burn and hide)
get a base (this is the mix of micro grow and bloom for each stage) ...............the amount in there will directly effect the plant's size adjust it higher or lower to what u want
next part is the stackers...............this is anything that is not micro grow or bloom ............these will effect the production of buds/ the taste/ the power/ the color/ the thickens/branchings/stalk size/root ball and intake lvls ...............(this is where the time comes in along with mixing and matching products .......rem every strain is different so the plants needs differ but they are all basically the same ) it will take u a few plants in the strain to dail it in then u tweak until u have the prefect routine/mix for that strain ..............u are now a master of that one
but the big thing is the root ball and it's intake ...............that was the whole exp i was running the strain and yeild of the plant is only limited to amount of feed and water the plant can use and take in during the life cycle
if i had kept the amounts lower i would have a more normal looking plant and not a mass bush in a tent .................improving your root zone making sure micbros are taken care of and feeding them extra goodies at key timing points
as for your lighting it all gets into lumens depth ...........yes more power does get u a bigger plant but u have to do the feed to get it to maximum goodness .......and any system can be upgraded with some side lighting to get more lumens on the lower lvls
grab your self a notebook (something u can burn and hide)
get a base (this is the mix of micro grow and bloom for each stage) ...............the amount in there will directly effect the plant's size adjust it higher or lower to what u want
next part is the stackers...............this is anything that is not micro grow or bloom ............these will effect the production of buds/ the taste/ the power/ the color/ the thickens/branchings/stalk size/root ball and intake lvls ...............(this is where the time comes in along with mixing and matching products .......rem every strain is different so the plants needs differ but they are all basically the same ) it will take u a few plants in the strain to dail it in then u tweak until u have the prefect routine/mix for that strain ..............u are now a master of that one
farmasensist
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Couldn't you just dillute it with more water? I have the same kit and keep it at about 600 but my water is very soft. I also had to stop using the nutes made from the algea. I think the organics were scumming up the res.