ttystikk
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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.
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My water is about 7, or really no pH because there's nothing in it. Very low EC.
Carolina Dream'n
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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?
ttystikk
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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.
VanIsleJay
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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
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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coreywebster
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Wow, guess your rooting powder works well. Never seen anything like that before.
ttystikk
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Do you repot them to take advantage of those roots?
You have to share your method, that's some crazy root growth. How long did it take for them to get like that?
VanIsleJay
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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)
VanIsleJay
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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.
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VanIsleJay
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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
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
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