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Return of the Spork

Return of the Spork

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Ah well they came from clones, didn't have an area for quarantine and they appeared okay upon inspection. No biggie, just would like to know if there are methods or deterrents so that I can implement some preventative actions so I will never get them on my flowering beauties.
 
livesoul

livesoul

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doogleef said:
hey livesoul -

Have you calibrated your meter lately? That is the worst city water I have ever heard of. Didn't you say it used to be 200?
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Haha, I just calibrated and rechecked and my tap water is at 640. Yeah its shitty. What do you guys mean by EC1 and 2.0EC and the calibration differences...?
 
Return of the Spork

Return of the Spork

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EC stands for electrical conductivity (as far as I know) and different ppm meters read ppm at different conversion rates. For example my bluelab uses a 500ppm to every 1EC rate while others use a 700ppm rate.

What they have in common though is the EC.

Both meters will read different values, but they will read the same EC.

So a 1.0 EC solution read by one meter will read 500ppm and one will read 700ppm.

It causes issues sometimes because in my case I not only misread the feeding amounts, but AN uses a 700 conversion and my meter is 500 so I was overshooting by a large amount.


My Tap seems to average 1EC, so that would be anywhere from 500-700ppm depending on your meter. Yay R/O
 
CustomHydro

CustomHydro

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Return of the Spork said:
EC stands for electrical conductivity (as far as I know) and different ppm meters read ppm at different conversion rates. For example my bluelab uses a 500ppm to every 1EC rate while others use a 700ppm rate.

What they have in common though is the EC.

Both meters will read different values, but they will read the same EC.

So a 1.0 EC solution read by one meter will read 500ppm and one will read 700ppm.

It causes issues sometimes because in my case I not only misread the feeding amounts, but AN uses a 700 conversion and my meter is 500 so I was overshooting by a large amount.


My Tap seems to average 1EC, so that would be anywhere from 500-700ppm depending on your meter. Yay R/O
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True, Blue Lab is the only company that I know of that uses the 500 conversion, but some of there meters have both conversions. My buddy was doing the same thing with his Truncheon meter. The Truncheon has both conversions on it and he was using the 500... For gardening, the standard conversion is 700 as far as I know.
 
grandpabear3

grandpabear3

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i have no idea what meter i have.....i swish it round the tub and read the lil doohickey and that's about as far as my technical expertise goes. plus al said ec is old school and noone i know uses it anymore so i never bothered to learn about it. why start now. but good to know nonetheless. you hippies have too much free time. should be gardening dammit. back to work all of you!
 
grandpabear3

grandpabear3

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the only time i killed (the claw) mine i let the ppm wander up around 1580ppm and my white widow fried like an egg. it loves 1300 and 1400 is the best performing but hard to keep it exact.

toodles
 
livesoul

livesoul

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FYI, I'm using FloraNova series and in my mother chamber i'm running at 1350ppm. I'm moving my clones tomorrow into the flower room and that means from the FloraNova Grow i'm switching to the FloraNova Bloom. Do you guys usually keep the PPM the same when you first put the clones into the flower room?
 
doogleef

doogleef

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EC is a unit that is always the same. PPM varies by meter. If you use PPM, just give the conversion (.5 or .7) so there is no confusion on the level.
 
livesoul

livesoul

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alright cool, i'm going to run the PPM up to 1100 for the 1st week in flower. I'll keep you guys posted
 
trouble9039

trouble9039

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How is everone doing? I just got home from vac about A hour ago and went and checked on my tray and everything was bone dry! Gone for A week and apperntlly my pump died...... I was almost ready to cry and actually I think I ended up shedding A teer! I hope everyone is doing better than I!!!!!
 
livesoul

livesoul

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trouble9039 said:
How is everone doing? I just got home from vac about A hour ago and went and checked on my tray and everything was bone dry! Gone for A week and apperntlly my pump died...... I was almost ready to cry and actually I think I ended up shedding A teer! I hope everyone is doing better than I!!!!!
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Ouch, welcome back!! lol.
 
grandpabear3

grandpabear3

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ya know......all of this shit is kinda like a second language....you dont use it you lose it. we are all on this quest for knowledge and soooooo ignorant at first then, like newborns, we soak up like a sponge. remembering random facts and lil tid bits. i guess once you burn down a grow or 2 and spit out a couple dozen good crops....you pretty much got your own shit dialed in. i dont even test for ppm anymore. ph every now and then but its always the same so i dont bother. i had to look up some of the shit we talk about a couple of times....laughing that anyone would ask me for advice. i just remember where to look. the rest is in the ol brain most of the time. but my grow and my life are pretty much on auto pilot. no need for this statement, just woke-n-bokeded......hehehehe
 
GypsyBush

GypsyBush

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bugsrnme said:
ya know... my grow and my life are pretty much on auto pilot...
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Uh Bugs.. the manufacturer called... there was a misprint ... no auto-pilot installed in your year/model... sorry buddy...

No wonder you're such a wreck...

hey if you need some more screws for that alleged brain of yours, let me know,, I got about a dozen or so with some threads left on them....

stainless too... ooohhh shiny....:-P
 
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