bigbudheadshrimp
Well-Known Member
Ok, so after a year of growing I've found out that all this nutrient mumbo jumbo is all a bunch of BS! Buy this, buy that. Stupid. Here's an example of my method:
10' x 20' warehouse space
10 x 1,000w lights
I would expect a yield of 2 per light or about 20 per harvest. Based on my expected yield I calculate reservoir size. For every pound I calculate I will need 1 gallon per day, I then multiply this by the estimated number of days the plants will be in veg and flower. In this example the total reservoir size we need is 2,240 gallons for 56 days of veg plus 56 days of flower, 112 days total.
Now here's the kicker, my nutrient mix:
2,240 gallon reservoir of RO water
6,720 grams or about 15 lbs of Jack's Pro 5-12-26 Hydroponic formula (3g/gal)
4,480 grams or about 10 lbs of Calcium Nitrate (2g/gal)
1 tsp of calcium hypochlorite every 3-5 days. (0.0005tsp/gal)
That's it. I just run that res from rooted clone to harvest. Same exact 1.5 EC the whole way. Heck if you do DTW you don't even need to pH. When the plants need more nutes they simply drink more of the universal nute mix. Adjusting nute strength is BS!
Before you say this doesn't work. I have been testing this method for the past 6 months. I have used hydroton, rockwool, coco, lol even organic soil. I have used it dtw or recirc makes no diff. I have used it in low pressure aero, ebb flow, dwc, makes no diff. From 1kw to 10kw+.
List of strains I've ran from start to finish, i always hit at very least 1.6 lbs per light no matter what strain, my chem d hits about 2.5-3, my deep sleep hits 2.2-2.5 per 1kw.
Harlequin
Vortex (God's Pussy pheno)
Strawberry Tahoe OG
Lemon OG
Heavy OG (Cali Love)
Chemdawg D
Deep Sleep
Cheese Quake
San Fernando Valley OG
New York City Diesel
Chembrado ( seed from hermie chem d, I use ethephon for hermies now)
Moon Walker
Super Moon God #1 (SMG)
Super Moon God #2 (SMG 2)
White Widow x Big Bud
Northern Lights x Big Bud
Chronic Thunder
Pineapple Express
Blackberry Rhino
Animal Cookies
Fukushima OG
10' x 20' warehouse space
10 x 1,000w lights
I would expect a yield of 2 per light or about 20 per harvest. Based on my expected yield I calculate reservoir size. For every pound I calculate I will need 1 gallon per day, I then multiply this by the estimated number of days the plants will be in veg and flower. In this example the total reservoir size we need is 2,240 gallons for 56 days of veg plus 56 days of flower, 112 days total.
Now here's the kicker, my nutrient mix:
2,240 gallon reservoir of RO water
6,720 grams or about 15 lbs of Jack's Pro 5-12-26 Hydroponic formula (3g/gal)
4,480 grams or about 10 lbs of Calcium Nitrate (2g/gal)
1 tsp of calcium hypochlorite every 3-5 days. (0.0005tsp/gal)
That's it. I just run that res from rooted clone to harvest. Same exact 1.5 EC the whole way. Heck if you do DTW you don't even need to pH. When the plants need more nutes they simply drink more of the universal nute mix. Adjusting nute strength is BS!
Before you say this doesn't work. I have been testing this method for the past 6 months. I have used hydroton, rockwool, coco, lol even organic soil. I have used it dtw or recirc makes no diff. I have used it in low pressure aero, ebb flow, dwc, makes no diff. From 1kw to 10kw+.
List of strains I've ran from start to finish, i always hit at very least 1.6 lbs per light no matter what strain, my chem d hits about 2.5-3, my deep sleep hits 2.2-2.5 per 1kw.
Harlequin
Vortex (God's Pussy pheno)
Strawberry Tahoe OG
Lemon OG
Heavy OG (Cali Love)
Chemdawg D
Deep Sleep
Cheese Quake
San Fernando Valley OG
New York City Diesel
Chembrado ( seed from hermie chem d, I use ethephon for hermies now)
Moon Walker
Super Moon God #1 (SMG)
Super Moon God #2 (SMG 2)
White Widow x Big Bud
Northern Lights x Big Bud
Chronic Thunder
Pineapple Express
Blackberry Rhino
Animal Cookies
Fukushima OG
