Craig, I am really sorry to hear that brother. Don't get down on yourself. It's a learning process brother. You have taught me plenty, so use your own advice and a little bit of some others on where you messed up and start p another round. Sunk Costs don't matter my man, you didn't lose anything, you just gained experience.
Now, I just got home to find that my extra net pots (yipeee, sigh.) and my TDS meter have arrived. I read up on the meter and took a few readings hoping you guys could help me analyzing them a bit.
I try to keep my systems with a ph of ~6. I am waiting on my ph gauge to come, but as of now, I am using the colored bars and it has stopped me from shooting for perfect numbers and riding the "rollercoaster" as Roseman would say.
I took the ppm of my 6ph res for my little ladies that has no nutes in it and I got a reading of 199ppm.
I then took the ph of my Snow White's rez, and found that her ph was shattered. So, I fixed it and brought it back to 6, and let it sit for a while. Then I went back and got a reading frm the meter and it said that my ppm was 249.
Now, I am just going to be doing some simple rounding to make this a little easier:
Nute-less grow tank - 200ppm
Nute-ful grow tank - 250ppm
This means that I have 50ppm of nutrients in my solution, right? If the water and the ph adjusting solutions together accounted for 200, then the other 50 must be the nutes, right?
This being said, are these numbers okay? I am running 1/4 strength grow and micro nutes at the moment. I had some deficiencies showing up and the ph fuck up, so hopefully this will settle everythign back out solid so I can take control of it again.
If anyone has any questions, comments, concerns, feel free to let me know.
Oh, and the middie-girls are doing well. 3 of the seeds survived and have made some pretty good looking seedlings. I have them under some little humidity domes and they are basically just to save me some money during the learning experience.
What do you guys think?