Harvest a Pound Every Three Weeks!
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Nice work, Bra! Way to step up and get this going. I will be sure to contribute as I can.
Aeroweed
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Ah... the local guy is funny too... Touchein your lungs buddy... in your lungs..
Chef
Aeroweed
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Someone recently reminded me there was more than one thread on this website. So I thought I would subscribe to another one
Actually the compatibility guide is a great idea! Lets all step up, and dial this in
pinner420
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Are you mixing per the ratio's on the labels or is this your own brew? Also you've mixed the nuts in without water is that a good thing? Sounds like you know whats up with Botanicare cause a meter is useless by their instructions and general hydro notions of 2000 being toxic and all.Here is the formula for my flower room:
Botanicare Nutrients:
126ml Cal-Mag Plus
150ml Sweet
180ml Liquid Karma
540mlL Pure Bend Pro Bloom
Mix all the nutrients in a spare gallon milk container. Add water and shake well. The whole mix will take an 18 gal rez to 2900 PPM.
You need a PPM meter that goes to at least 2000 PPM.
Add about half of the mix and check your PPM. It will be low so you will have to keep adding nutrients until you get it to 2000 PPM.
It is easy to add more nutes but hard to take them outIf you go over you have to drain some nute/water from the rez and add more plain water.
That's why you want take it slow at first.
Always adjust your PH after you set your nutrients PPM.
sounds good to me!
they can't have too much fresh air at night...
as you suggest, in a sealed system, exhaust is considered "emergency exhaust"... but it is still a necessity for most rooms?
gvega187
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..that t'would b botany chief...
fresh air will not matter as much during lights off. Plants will not be using much co2.
I use a cheaper co2 tank & regulator setup.
I have a Green-Air products controller for co2 and temps...works great, but only cuts off exhaust for co2...doesnt control it completely.
Aeroweed
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I think Stink is doing this from experience.
I use Hanna meters and haven't had any problems with Botanicare.
I mix my gallon of Nutes, then add small amounts to my rez until I hit the ppm I'm looking for.
I wondered about this too - with many synthetic nutes, it is necessary to mix in with a large amount of water (the reason some nutes come part a/part b - as they can not be mixed together in concentrated form).
Having said that, the Botanicare nutes seem to mix together nicely at full strength and never form that milky froth that synth nutes do when they break. Botanicare does not warn against mixing their nute teas together at base strength - and it obviously works for Stink, so...?
I found something else I thought interesting... many people are running well over 3000PPM with these Botanicare organic nutes. I have not heard of sucess at such high concentrations with other Nute lines? I wonder if these Botanicare nutes aren't something special? I love the smell and they taste great (less filling too!).
... isn't it interesting that many meters don't even go over 2000PPMs! We are definitely salty dogs with this system!
deeweromekoms
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Dear Mr. Stinkbud,
Is there any reason why one couldn't use the same, say 400W ( or 2 250W, or whatever works best for size), MH lights for the mother, clone as well as veg set up?
So instead of one area w. light for mother, another area w. lights for clone and one more area w. lights for veg, have one big happy room for all above?
So other than less heat and energy usage, is there a distinct advantage to using (T5) fluorescents for any of this?
Perhaps this has been asked, but I was unable find it in those other 530-some pages...(wow!)
Thanks everyone for all your hard work.
Is there any reason why one couldn't use the same, say 400W ( or 2 250W, or whatever works best for size), MH lights for the mother, clone as well as veg set up?
So instead of one area w. light for mother, another area w. lights for clone and one more area w. lights for veg, have one big happy room for all above?
So other than less heat and energy usage, is there a distinct advantage to using (T5) fluorescents for any of this?
Perhaps this has been asked, but I was unable find it in those other 530-some pages...(wow!)
Thanks everyone for all your hard work.
Aeroweed
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Now that I'm sort of adapting to the Stink System, I really don't meter watch like I used to.
I look at the PH every time I walk in. BUT the PPM... Not so much.
I look at the plants. If they look good I give em a shot of Bot daily. If anything looks kinda funny I wait a day, see whats going on...
Aeroweed
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There's no mother in Stinks system. Check out page 75, it'll probably help you a lot
I think back to the aptitude tests they gave me in high school... If they would have called botany - "learn how to grow the dank" - it would have been so much easier to decide on a career path!
Yeah - no CO2 generatoin when the lights are out. At night, I like the fresh air to keep the humidity down as it helps to prevent mold and mildew.
That Green Air is perfect - as coordinating exhaust is really the only critical issue with CO2. I have the CHHC-1 and only use the exhaust and CO2 functions... though I'm thinking I will let it handle my AC when the days get a bit hotter here...
Crazy how we work to make the perfect artificial environment for some weeds!
Well - we don't all have the luxury of "glancing" at our PPM and PH as you do, AeroW!
haha! I guess that meter is working out for ya? I want to be able to glance at my PPM!
deeweromekoms
Active Member
Got that - instead of having a mother we'll keep cloning from whatever we have in veg state.
The simplicity and logic of this system is what makes it so beautiful.
But to keep it even more simple, is there any reason not to have the clones under the same type of light as veg plants?
Thanks.
The simplicity and logic of this system is what makes it so beautiful.
But to keep it even more simple, is there any reason not to have the clones under the same type of light as veg plants?
Thanks.