If you read the journal, towards the end i do a walk-through of my room and you might be suprised where this room is. Thanks for the compliments, i worked very hard on it. One question though. Does anyone have a generic ppm chart for a plant life cycle(clone through flower)? I just got a tds/ec meter and have never used one before. the whole first grow was done without one so it is new to me.
This is a very hard question to answer right here especially not having a ppm tester till recently...but ill give it a shot.
yeah thats cool, somtimes i just turn a check valve around.
I'm no engineer but I do make my living repairing all kinds of machinery..including pumps and compressors...without knowing what type of pump or how its constructed, blocking off an outlet could be reducing the pumps output...
This is gonna be very strain dependant. But that's the nice part of having the ppm/tds/ec meter. Your strain will "communicate" with you through this instrument to let you know what ppm it likes.
Thanks. It was helpful. I feel like I have fairly strong strains, but I'm either still having problems with my water or something, because I have nutrient burn looking leaves on my blue mystic. It is about 18in tall and the ppm is only at 730. this doesnt seem normal.This is gonna be very strain dependant. But that's the nice part of having the ppm/tds/ec meter. Your strain will "communicate" with you through this instrument to let you know what ppm it likes.
Basically, when your ppm drops, your plant is using the nutes you gave it and is going to be able to take a higher ppm (increase this gradually though). If the ppm raises upon testing, it's not using as much nutes as it is water and you may need to back off the nutes a little.
The idea will be to "push" the strain to find what weeks to add the max tolerable ppm and keep a record of this. Then, you have your ppm chart for that strain and can reproduce this with each grow.
Try to get yourself a schedule of checking ppm. I did mine daily and made necessary adjustments as needed (ie added nutes when ppm declined, added water when ppm went up). It works wonders and is one of the great advantages of growing hydro.
Hope this helps and great grow btw.
-Butters
Best i can tell you is to do a complete res change.
Great info man. PPM will most deffinetely be strain dependent.This is gonna be very strain dependant. But that's the nice part of having the ppm/tds/ec meter. Your strain will "communicate" with you through this instrument to let you know what ppm it likes.
Basically, when your ppm drops, your plant is using the nutes you gave it and is going to be able to take a higher ppm (increase this gradually though). If the ppm raises upon testing, it's not using as much nutes as it is water and you may need to back off the nutes a little.
The idea will be to "push" the strain to find what weeks to add the max tolerable ppm and keep a record of this. Then, you have your ppm chart for that strain and can reproduce this with each grow.
Try to get yourself a schedule of checking ppm. I did mine daily and made necessary adjustments as needed (ie added nutes when ppm declined, added water when ppm went up). It works wonders and is one of the great advantages of growing hydro.
Hope this helps and great grow btw.
-Butters
Are u sure its nutrient burn or is it ur plant trying to show u a deficiency?
Looks Very hazey!Close-up day haha. Nice mines bagseed.
