New to Vert growing

Carolina Dream'n said:

Add it first, make sure your water isn't lower than 6.2-6.4 or it'll just fall out.

I have had ph problems always until changing to Ionic.

My water gets silica, Ionic and a calcium hypochlorite solution. Ph is almost too stable.

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This is potassium silicate? It sent pH way up, and hard. That's why I had so much trouble with it.

My water is about 7, or really no pH because there's nothing in it. Very low EC.

ttystikk said:

This is potassium silicate? It sent pH way up, and hard. That's why I had so much trouble with it.

My water is about 7, or really no pH because there's nothing in it. Very low EC.

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Yes potassium silica. It's actually from the site you order your dry salts from. I take there concentrate and make an identical to protect. (There concetrate is entirely too thick to deal with in small quantities). And yea it's gonna raise your ph, give it a few minutes before adding your next bottle.

What ph down you using. BlueLab or GH?

Carolina Dream'n said:

Yes potassium silica. It's actually from the site you order your dry salts from. I take there concentrate and make an identical to protect. (There concetrate is entirely too thick to deal with in small quantities). And yea it's gonna raise your ph, give it a few minutes before adding your next bottle.

What ph down you using. BlueLab or GH?

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I use Mad Farmer 'get down', it's phosphoric acid. Very concentrated so decent bang for buck.

Since I don't use silica in my res- I foliar with it, where it also helps fight PM- I find that I don't need to use anything to pH balance.

Not sure why; not that I'm against it..... but these clones root this way every Time!
Never out the bottom of the blocks, always above where I place the powdered root hormone. Weird! I guess humidity and temp is just right but I thought it's happened enough I'd post a pic an hear input

Wow, guess your rooting powder works well. Never seen anything like that before.

VanIsleJay said:

Not sure why; not that I'm against it..... but these clones root this way every Time!
Never out the bottom of the blocks, always above where I place the powdered root hormone. Weird! I guess humidity and temp is just right but I thought it's happened enough I'd post a pic an hear input

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Do you repot them to take advantage of those roots?

VanIsleJay said:

Not sure why; not that I'm against it..... but these clones root this way every Time!
Never out the bottom of the blocks, always above where I place the powdered root hormone. Weird! I guess humidity and temp is just right but I thought it's happened enough I'd post a pic an hear input

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You have to share your method, that's some crazy root growth. How long did it take for them to get like that?

ttystikk said:

Do you repot them to take advantage of those roots?

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I actually just wait about a week and those roots grow right through the bottom. Then transplant into 3*3*3 rockwool cubes to further root outside humidity dome.... once they are heathy I transplant into 7litre pots with clay pellets.
I'm not sure if it's the humidity in my dome..... I also place a full solo cup with water inside the dome to keep humidity up, standard tray and dome with heater pad below.
I don't place right on heater pad... I suspend it about 1 inch above the heat pad to give indirect heat( find the clones dry out slower this way)

JDMase said:

You have to share your method, that's some crazy root growth. How long did it take for them to get like that?

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I've just taken a few more pics of setup for you to gander and just threw a humidity/temp gauge in there to see the actual condition within the dome. I'll update in a bit once it's giving a proper reading after removing dome.

FYI
Dome is about 28degrees Celsius and 99% humidity..... Minimal direct light but a lot of indirect light; from my 315 CID light I use to veg