From the Tents of Peat Phreak

I said I wasn't going to show any veg pics, so please ignore the plants that are vegging and focus upon these handy runoff containers and pot elevators!



Makes testing runoff and vacuuming waste more convenient.

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Love the content. Questions I have are when you mix the jacks do you have a bunch of stuff left at the bottom. To me it looked like epsom salt shards but if it was epsom I wouldve thought it would dissolve but no matter it never would. I tossed it and am using masterblend. To hit 3 ec I mix 5 grams masterblend, 5 calnit and 2.5 epsom. I was going to tweak it to follow yours more because I think there is too much potassium and too little mag with that. Im getting some really dark skinny long leaves with a hint of taco. How many grams do you usually use of each. If I was going to up epsom to 3 or 4 grams I was going to keep calcium nitrate double but 8 grams calcium nitrate seems way high

Dr. Drake227 said:

Love the content. Questions I have are when you mix the jacks do you have a bunch of stuff left at the bottom. To me it looked like epsom salt shards but if it was epsom I wouldve thought it would dissolve but no matter it never would. I tossed it and am using masterblend. To hit 3 ec I mix 5 grams masterblend, 5 calnit and 2.5 epsom. I was going to tweak it to follow yours more because I think there is too much potassium and too little mag with that. Im getting some really dark skinny long leaves with a hint of taco. How many grams do you usually use of each. If I was going to up epsom to 3 or 4 grams I was going to keep calcium nitrate double but 8 grams calcium nitrate seems way high

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Hi. Thanks. No, Jacks dissolves completely for me. I use a different ratio than most people. It's really easy to remember.

1 part Jacks 5/12/26
1 part Calcium Nitrate
zero epsom salt
plus a few optional extras listed elsewhere in this thread

This ratio works for the entire grow. All you have to do is delver the proper PPM for each stage. If you aren't acidifying your water, try doing that. It increases solubility.

PeatPhreak said:

Hi. Thanks. No, Jacks dissolves completely for me. I use a different ratio than most people. It's really easy to remember.

1 part Jacks 5/12/26
1 part Calcium Nitrate
zero epsom salt
plus a few optional extras listed elsewhere in this thread

This ratio works for the entire grow. All you have to do is delver the proper PPM for each stage. If you aren't acidifying your water, try doing that. It increases solubility.

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I seen the 1:1 but was just wondering how many grams you go up to. Im thinking of trying 7g calnit do you go over that? Also my ph is 5.8 I use half ro half tap

3 grams per gallon of both plus decent tap water and a few extras is about 1200ppm. That works well for veg. The highest I go in bloom is 2000ppm which is approximately 5g/gal of both.

PeatPhreak said:

3 grams per gallon of both plus decent tap water and a few extras is about 1200ppm. That works well for veg. The highest I go in bloom is 2000ppm which is approximately 5g/gal of both.

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“Gulp sounds” haha dang. Well that helps. My starting ec is .2 so Im adding 12.5 grams a gallon right now of salts to hit 1500ppm and im in veg (reading off of truncheon). I’ll probably back masterblend down to 4 and try a 6 calnit 3 epsom. If anyone thinks this is insane trust me Ive been high af in my room wondering wtf is going on with them. Its a sealed room with co2 and I was thinking if there is air in the tank and its taken in by plants and they let out air now theres more pressure. Alot of bigger guys talk about kpa So when I was sitting there wondering why 2 grams of this 2 of that isnt working I followed my gut that the pressures must affect uptake somehow. Once I pushed past 4g calnit I seen a big difference. Thanks peat for keeping it real and sharing your knowledge you helpful guys on here are the true OG’s

Your plants look amazing PeatPhreak.

Thanks. They smoke pretty good too. I'm blazed 24/7 off this stuff. Good times!

Need to process this 100 grams of Chitosan. Which could be confused for heroin by overzelous law enforcement Sherlocks. It's definely not H. It smells like shrimp chimps. Mmmm. Shrimp chimps. Which coincindentally can be purchased at the Super H store.

You haven’t updated this grow journal in a bit, hope you and yours well. I wish you luck with your grow.

Your content here is amazing, and your recipie/results have me considering (>90%) going your route for my first hempy bucket grow, rather than my traditional soil. At the very least, half the hempies w/ your method and half w/ soil. Now, how can I justify to the boss I’ll need to buy a few new instruments and a bulk order of PH strips… forgiveness is easier than permission I guess.

I will be doing mine outdoor/greenhouse and hope you don’t mind a couple more questions as I’m sure I’ll have challenges/learning-curve-itis.

I see in your nutes grocery list a few other things you haven’t mentioned when you like/need to usr, I assume it’s as needed?

After you sterilize you reintroduce microbes in some cocktail/recipie of like 7, any insight on this? I would greatly appreciate specifics and your thoughts on any critical/situational/specific ones, much like how you’ve done on the nutes in your journal.

Also, short of me googling a way of doing it, what’s your method (perfected or not) for steam sterilizing? I’m thinking of doing this to even my soil, just looking for the best way to start doing it.

If you have any other tips for a nuub attempting to adapt something like your recipe in a greenhouse, I’d appreciate it. Like, what size perlite do you use, and could using a finer/coarser one you think benefit me better in a a/c-less greenhouse environment? I’m thinking lava rocks for my bottom 2” hempy bucket layer too, if you advise against that with your recipe, please let me know.

Peace

PeatPhreak said:

Power Si and TPS Gold are examples of bioavailable silica.

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It's just diluted potassium sillicate with aminos... nothing new. Make some research , potassium sillicate in water= potash + sillicate and the form of sillica will depend on his concentration(ppm) and ph. In aciditic ph and low concentration, the form of sillica is silicic acid or if you prefer their marketing jargon, orthosilicic acid. Im a hydro guy, I dont like organics in my rez thats why I would avoid both of the product you mentionned. But... great thread and great job. = )