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motul123

motul123

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How do you know its time to add nutes to your res? At the moment my TDS is 430ppm with clones that are about 2 weeks old. Using GH nutes.
 
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HSA

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Motul: when you check your pH, which you should do daily, if you check your ppm's you'll see that they're going down, meaning your plants are feeding, depleting the nutes you added. The only problem is that you don't know what they've eaten, so what are you going to add? There is a relatively easy solution to this problem. Depending on how big your reservoir is, you can dump it and put in new. When I'm growing hydro I recycle my used nutes into my outside dirt garden and my fruits and vegetable love the left overs. That's what I've always done but then I've only grown in: Aerogardens, 1 gal, 2 gal, 3 1/2 gal, and 5 gal DWC buckets and ten gallons bubble tubs with 7 gallons of nutes. I changed my nutes weekly, a habit I got from working with my Aerogardens, and I didn't have half the problems a lot of people complain about here and at other forums. I hope that helps. HSA
 
motul123

motul123

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HSA said:
Motul: when you check your pH, which you should do daily, if you check your ppm's you'll see that they're going down, meaning your plants are feeding, depleting the nutes you added. The only problem is that you don't know what they've eaten, so what are you going to add? There is a relatively easy solution to this problem. Depending on how big your reservoir is, you can dump it and put in new. When I'm growing hydro I recycle my used nutes into my outside dirt garden and my fruits and vegetable love the left overs. That's what I've always done but then I've only grown in: Aerogardens, 1 gal, 2 gal, 3 1/2 gal, and 5 gal DWC buckets and ten gallons bubble tubs with 7 gallons of nutes. I changed my nutes weekly, a habit I got from working with my Aerogardens, and I didn't have half the problems a lot of people complain about here and at other forums. I hope that helps. HSA
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Thanks for the input, I have a 40 gal res so it will be hard to dump all that at one time and keep the girls happy. Seem some strains like aero some dont. Like you said its hard to tell wht they wat and not give them too much of it. I think I will keep mine no higher than 600ppm.
 
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riffle87

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Hey there as a rule i change my water every 7 days no matter what my tds is. .. Your res will build up extra salts and bad things that will still keep ur tds up so tds isn't accurate. .. Every week is best bet
 
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