bk78
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Ugh not what I wanted to hear. So you use the RO with tap now?
3 days on jack's 5-12-26 and the plants are loving it! Bye bye General Hydroponics forever
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ttystikk
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It's because the water in Colorado is very nearly RO from the tap. My city water is consistently .05 EC. That's not a typo.
rkymtnman
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yep. well water at about 0.2EC
bk78
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My tap is around the same .1-.2
I’ll grab a small bag of the 1 part RO then instead to try out I think.
bk78
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Wow that’s a huge difference compared to rkys well water
rkymtnman
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i've only had 1 strain need more Ca than the nutes and well water provide.
rkymtnman
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we got the good shit up here in the mountains.
bk78
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Yeah that’s 100% pheno related
bk78
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Heres December's water report for my city
We have that Ca on lock down apparently lol
amneziaHaze
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i use masterblend but its similar you are right a lot stays in the plant after grow. even a 2 week flush doesn't get to show plant deficiencies
ttystikk
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Well of course; plants have evolved to protect themselves from a loss of nutrition. This isn't a good reason to flush; it's a reason not to overload the plants with nutrients to begin with.
amneziaHaze
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If she eats from the water i give her.2 weeks of flush is good and she doesnt stop development she just eats herselfe. My water ppm rises in flush soo roots are probably flushing out the nutes as well.i get a faster flush if i change the water daily
ttystikk
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This does nothing but starve your plants right when they're finishing, bulking up and sweating out the resin that contains everything we want from the plant.
My advice is to find a middle ground; rather than blasting the plants with heavy nutrients through bloom and then starving them, give them a reasonable and well balanced diet throughout the cycle. You'll end up with healthier plants, bigger yields and stronger bud.
If you're having problems with what the plant tastes/smokes like, look to your drying and curing procedures.
Milky Weed
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All facts here.
Unrelated, this current run I’m going to go lighter on the nutes, and see if it affects general bud size. I’m still a noob, but felt I got medium-large bud sizes last time. Last time I cranked the e.c way high, all the way to 2.2. this time I took them up to 1.1 pretty quickly and I’ll increase it to 1.4 and keep them there the whole flower and taper abit towards the last week.
Still using jacks 20-10-20 pro peat lite, and jacks 7-15-37 finisher. I can’t wait to get a proper mix, I just have 25 lb of each to go through, technically would last me a solid year or two without getting more. I’m making it work though.
amneziaHaze
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well i got almost 1.5g/w i am happy with that. buds where hard and soft but thats weak light.... everybody that tried it said it was really tastey and strong. soo i am satisfied with it.
i cant influence drying i dont have the equipment for it soo i get what the weather gives me....
you are probably right but i like to do flushes it makes me feel better in the end and the whole grow i try to find the ppm that give me least amount of change i feel like thats optimal food
one thing i did but i have no idea was it good or not but i read it from sensi seeds or some big seedbank guy. after week 5 start lowering water level soo half of the roots are in the air it should make the plant think its gonna have a dry season and starts producing more resin to counter evaporation.
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waterproof808
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It's way easier and quicker to just make 2 jugs of concentrated stock solution instead of spending time and money building some contraption. The ratio is printed on the bags.
For 1 gallon of Concentrate:
-13oz part A+ 4oz Epsom Salts
-8.6oz Cal Nit
Artmann11
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Thank you! But I like contraptions!