Need some hydro help

need some help here. I just bought a water farm hydro set up and have a questions.

1. i need to know how much nutes i put in my new 4 gal water farm and if i should add them while my plant is still a very small seedling.

my nutrients are-

FloraBloom 0-5-4

FloraGro- 2-1-6

FloraMicro- 5-0-1

this might give you a general idea of what to do.....

http://www.foxfarmfertilizer.com/hydrofeed.pdf

its not your brand of nutes but it might give a good idea on how much to use

Checkout their website.Your gonna need some ph adjusters.

by "pH adjusters" do you mean simple everyday ph+/-? Or is there a speical pH adjuster that you must use with nutes?

1kooguy said:

Checkout their website.Your gonna need some ph adjusters.

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Ok man you are using a simple nute setup I personally use GH nutes and a hydro setup kinda similar. There are 2 feeding schedules you can follow that I know of off the top of my head. One is on www.generalhydroponics.com and the other is the Lucas formula which is alot easier to follow. The lucas formula is basically not even using the grow and just using the Micro and Bloom. Under veg or weaker light 5ml per gallon Micro and 10ml per gallon bloom. And in flower use 8ml per gallon micro and 16ml per gallon Bloom. Lucas claims that will contain all the nutes needed to grow successful plants and not cause burn or deficiencies. I have done this successfully for 6 grows, however my last grow using this formula I have nothing but problems with calcium and magnesium deficiencies. So I would steer a little closer to the general hydroponics schedule. After 3 weeks from germ mix half strength and slowly work your way up to full strength adding more nutes every 48 hours so you have time to make sure your plants are cool with your feeding. I have added nutrients both ways putting them straight into the res and by adding them to add back water and pouring the water in with the fresh nutes. Both were successful if you do it in reasonable doses. In veg slowly getting up to around 1000ppm watching the plants to make sure it dont burn is kinda a general number. In bloom try to average between 1100 to 1450 ppm sometimes more just depending what the plant likes. Make sure to flush bout every 10 to 14 days with fresh water so the plants are sure to get replentished on the nutes they use and the water dont go toxic. I hope that this makes sense. Good luck with the grow and feel free to ask more questions. Peace! Oh by the way use R/O water I feel it is a must!

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Thanks for all the help guys, i am going to need a lot of it.

This is a noob question im sure. I am not using rock wool and have a seedling in my system. My question is how many times should i let it drip a day and for how long?

BTW i am only posting questions i cant find answers to here.