I think its time to go hydro. (one year soil exp) Nutes?

TheSnake

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Thinking about Re-vamping my shit, better insulation/drywall, stronger Air conditioner to combat the retarded ass heat, Think florida/texas = RETARDED. Not to mention dropping the soil and going to bubble buckets or some other type of hydroponic / airoponic system. I know I need to drop my temps from the 85-100 f all the time (most of the year) 1k hps, down to ideal 70's. Only have a 5k btu ac which i haven't ran all winter, which ill be turning back on soon. The soil is forgiving when it comes to temps. But not the yield / speed.

Now that you know about where i am mentally, I know very little about soil less growing. I know ph is 5.5-6.5 instead of 6-7, know very little about ppm, and have no clue which line up of fert's I will need to add to my water. I assume any brand of hydroponic solutions will work for weed, just at a lesser dose to start, and also that these "line ups" have all nutes needed by the plant available. If some of you ex soil growers want to chime in and give me some advice, please do. I could use it, My state should be becoming legal in November, and I have things in the works for what i would call "aggressive expansion". My plan is actually taking me outdoors, but I will need a tight knit indoor grow to propagate higher quality bud's and nurse clones / etc. Which I plan to be ran fully by mean's of soil-less mediums.

I've been winging it so long, I feel like I need to just get my shit together. I mean here i am, throwing random ass soils together, some used, some not, some other kinds. Random ferts, burning some plants, others not. Some of them do very well (probably luck) and others quite poor. Hell I still clone in a cup of water like a damn cave man. LOL
 

covert222

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In my opinion the nutes are pretty much all the same that is to say one brand is not better than the other I use gh and fox farm right now just cause I got em at a discount but anything is fine really. I just go like .6 for about 17 days then 1 for 2 weeks then switch to 12 12 at a ec of 1 for 10 days then 1.7 for 10 then 2 for 10 then 2.2 for 10 then start going back down til flush. I don't know what your space is like but I would consider a top feed with hydroton to start just cause imo it's the easiest
 

TheSnake

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or was that some kind of reference to ppm? I still have to buy a PPM meter btw, lol. A full year of growing in soil, no ppm meter, I must be one lazy fuck ass.
 

DeeTee

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.6 is an ec measurement of ppm's, some meters measure in ec rather than ppm's, here's a conversion chart, you are interested in the hanna readings.

EC to PPM conversion chart
Hanna
Eutech
Truncheon
EC
ppm
ppm
ppm
0.1
50
64
70
0.2
100
128
140
0.3
150
192
210
0.4
200
256
280
0.5
250
320
350
0.6
300
384
420
0.7
350
448
490
0.8
400
512
560
0.9
450
576
630
1
500
640
700
1.1
550
704
770
1.2
600
768
840
1.3
650
832
910
1.4
700
896
980
1.5
750
960
1050
1.6
800
1024
1120
1.7
850
1088
1190
1.8
900
1152
1260
1.9
950
1216
1330
2
1000
1280
1400
2.1
1050
1334
1470
2.2
1100
1408
1540
2.3
1150
1472
1610
2.4
1200
1536
1680
2.5
1250
1600
1750
2.6
1300
1664
1820
2.7
1350
1728
1890
2.8
1400
1792
1960
2.9
1450
1856
2030
3
1500
1920
2100
3.1
1550
1984
2170
3.2
1600
2048
2240
 
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