Also I think Homebrew and J.ride are awesome!!!
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The only response I received was from J.ride who said "start with the maintenance dose and adjust from there" thanks but not very helpful.
Haha, I appreciate it but this is really all HB and those he learned from. All I have done is mixed some chemicals every once in a while, made sure to water every day, and snapped some pictures every now and then.
The sad thing is that I really don't know much about what I'm doing and I have been somewhat lazy about everything. The fact that things still look good is a testament to Dyna-Gro and the information HB has shared in this thread.
If youre still struggling with feeding charts and what to do, KISS really applies with Dyna-Gro. I've been using about 2/3 grow and 1/3 pro-tekt this whole time. Nothing else. I'm using tap water so my results can and probably will differ from yours. My bottle of grow is almost out and I will be switching over to foliage pro at that point. I haven't been doing it as an exact science and sometimes those values are a little off. I've been shooting for a ph of 6.3 and ppm around 700 for a few weeks now. Sometimes it's a little more, sometimes a little less. I bought cheap meters so who really knows but I do calibrate them every once in a while.
Again, I'm lazy about this and don't like doing unnecessary work. So I've been feeding all of my plants in both veg and different stages of bloom out of the same mix. This has got to be by far the greatest benefit of using one solution throughout. I probably could fine tune my mixture on a per plant or per week basis but what I have been doing is easy and seems to work. I may try getting a little fancier in the future but for me this will provide a great baseline.
Pictures below. It's day 47 I believe. The finish line is in sight. I've upgraded myself from my cell phone camera to an old point and shoot, though I still dont think its doing everything justice. I'm a learning
I have a problem with bugs. I thought I had them under control but they took off yet again. Its nothing crazy, but theyre definitely around. I did a Pyrethrum fogger twice, 5 days apart. That dealt the buggers some damage but did not wipe them out. The plants seemed unaffected. There may have been some more orange hairs present afterwards but that could also just be the timing. I also kind of screwed up with this. The first round I did 3 hours before lights out and I turned off my ventilation. I figured, eh, theyve only got 3 hours to go, how hot can it get? Well
. It got hot. My temps have been between 65-85F but that night it got to 107 for at least a while. There was no apparent damage besides the possible orange hairs but I learned my lesson. I hope it did not affect my yield. The hydro shop guy also said Do not use this after week 4. It is safe but it will cause you to have a premature harvest. The rebel in me said to hell with this guy, look at all the other crap/FUD he pushes but who knows. Looking back, it may not have been the smartest thing to do as Im trying to establish my baseline.
I can see bugs being a big problem, especially with a perpetual harvest. Being that I'm potentially less than two weeks away from harvest I think I'll let my babies be and cross my fingers at this point. Ill probably start spraying more, earlier on, and this is definitely an area where my lack of expertise is showing. To his credit, my buddy has been a big help with this as his trained eyes can spot bugs that I did not see. Id probably be overrun at this point if it wasnt for him.
That's all for now, I'll have another update soon!