ounevinsmoke
Well-Known Member
I've recently noticed I have not been getting the full potential of my plants. I usually run individual power growers with no major issues but I have noticed my ladies never really drank much during flower(ppm never changed much). Experimenting with some different nutes I ultimately killed the roots of several plants. Although the foliage recovered quickly I had to repeatedly run fresh water through the systems along with some Florakleen & Hydrogen Peroxide I had on hand from a few years back. I did these fresh water flushes for two days at the end of every week like I previously stated.
Upon adding fresh nute mixes I noticed my ladies are more than eager to eat at these points leading me to believe that I have been running my nutes too high in my systems and the salts were locking out most of the nutes as they built up. I generally tried to stay around 1000 ppm (My tap water is 200ppm) but it gets higher as the water level decreases sometimes reaching 1600+, but then or before it reaches that I usually top off with fresh water bringing the ppm's down. Even after bringing the ppm's down they have never eaten like this before.
I guess my question is what do you true blue Hydroton users use to clean your media while growing in it???
I'm running out of Florakleen but I want to continue the end of the week flushes. Was thinking of running some mild Dish soap & hydrogen Peroxide through the system for 2 days then back to nutes.
Suggestions...
Upon adding fresh nute mixes I noticed my ladies are more than eager to eat at these points leading me to believe that I have been running my nutes too high in my systems and the salts were locking out most of the nutes as they built up. I generally tried to stay around 1000 ppm (My tap water is 200ppm) but it gets higher as the water level decreases sometimes reaching 1600+, but then or before it reaches that I usually top off with fresh water bringing the ppm's down. Even after bringing the ppm's down they have never eaten like this before.
I guess my question is what do you true blue Hydroton users use to clean your media while growing in it???
I'm running out of Florakleen but I want to continue the end of the week flushes. Was thinking of running some mild Dish soap & hydrogen Peroxide through the system for 2 days then back to nutes.
Suggestions...