ridinslab
Active Member
Welcome to my new grow rollitup! I have one soil grow under my belt, but I ended up disappointed due to the janky genetics and soil compaction. This time around, some kinks have been smoothed out and I am gonna try hydroponics. I got the Turbogarden ebb and flow kit, all the neccessary nutrients and meters, and a MH conversion for my 600w sodium ballast. I got the seeds from marijuana-seeds.nl, discreet shipping, quick, and less than 50 bucks for the female mix. The leaves were broad indica/afghan mostly, a couple sativas, and one mutant. One lost its tap root and died in transplant, but the other 9 are a couple weeks old. I was going to buy a bag of hydroton at the store, but the guy told me it was included in the garden. It's not, it's the readygro shit from botanicare, and it made my tray and res real dirty. I ran plain water for a while, and the high ph affected their cotyledons and first set, but they didn't seem stunted. After a little I flushed and cleaned the garden. On the first res fill, I ended up making it a little too hot, even though I only added small amounts of Tri-flex, rhizotonic, and liquid karma (in seedling doses). It was around 800 ppm, then I watered it down with 5 gallons of 0 ppm water to get it down to 600. I really don't want to flush it now to get it down to 400 or so, but I will do whatever it takes to make sure they are healthy. What do you guys think? pH is kept around 5.5-6.0 and temp is 77*F. I've been bouncing the watering schedule around from 3-5 times a day to see what works best, right now it's 3 times a day for 15 mins each with the included mech timer. Thoughts on this? Any past experience with a Turbogarden here would help me out tremendously. Stick around, I love to post pictures and I will be here till harvest!
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