well in this case I might recommend you try feeding EC 1.0 or 1.2 and not ramp up to the high EC some soil guys do
those guys feeding plain water everyother so they leach the nutes out every other watering
in your case you want to dose nutes with every watering.. so you just need to find the EC that works in your set up without causing accumulation in the medium
when your plants are set to water take a sample from the run off that comes from under the pot
if the waste water leaving the pot EC is higher than the feed water ...lower the EC
on the other hand.. if your feeding ph of 6.5 and the water exiting the pot is 8.0 your EC is to low
Originally Posted by OldPhart
Basic cheat sheet:
Ec goes up, PH goes down=plants require less nutes.
Ec goes down, PH goes up=Plants require more nutes
Ec stable, PH goes up=Equilibrium=Good thang.
