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It adds some of the secondary nutes missing from distilled water and R/O water (I believe). But it basically gives your plants much needed Calcium and Magnessiem (spelling?), plus some Iron....etc. Just add it in after your Micro, Grow Bloom NPK mix.
here's the link to the "in-house" grow guide. Its set up in FAQ format. I suggest you read everything you can get your eyes on. Make sure EVERYTHING in your grow room is ready. Expect some changes, some improvisations, some problems. But you can also expect to find the answer to 95% of your 1st month questions in this guide(if you havent planted the seeds yet, 100% of your questions can be answered between the FAQ/Grow Guide and the forum search.) I promise, you will rarely come across something that the moderators and experienced growers that participate in this forum haven't answered at least a few times already.
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Calmag is to replace some stuff stripped out by reverse osmosis. If you don't RO, you don't need it. And for crying outloud, it's real easy:
- Buy a ph meter for $25, and don't give me any crap about how you can't afford to spend that kind of money. If that's true, toss the whole deal right now.
- Put 3 gallons of water in a 4 gallon kitty litter bucket or something, along with all the nutrients you want to add (don't get carried away here). Try about half or less, of what the directions call for the first time to be safe. Gradually increase to direction quantity while paying close attention to possible nutrient burn or overload. You won't need a PPM meter if you do this carefully.
- Stir it up and check the PH. Adjust with PH down until it is between 5.2 and 5.9, with 5.5 being pretty much the best goal.
- For large reseviors, like say 25 gallons, you can figure out the total amount of PH down needed by doing it for 5 gallons, then multiplying by 5. Just make sure you multiply all other ingreadients as well.
I don't think you read and watched those things very carefully, or you were stoned, because I know they talk about adjusting PH in those somewhere.
If you use city water don't forget to nutralize the chlorine, but otherwise just mix your nutes and adjust your PH. Real easy.
We bought a liquid test kit because the hydro shop said they weren't getting electronic ones in for another 3 weeks (2 now). I paid close attention to everything I read and watched, I just didn't know that tap water was such a high pH, I thought it was closer to 6-7, hence my post. But thanks for the very condescending reply! :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Opie Yutts
Deja, take about 5 gallons of your house water and use some pH down to adjust the pH to around 5.7. Then check the pH every few hours and see how long it stays at 5.7. At this point, don't add anything to the water except the pH down.
Report the results after 12 hours.
The water should creep back up to around 8.0. We want to see how quickly that happens to determine if your tap water is useable.
BTW - you can read all you want but a lot of this stuff doesn't make any sense until you get hands-on experience. So don't let anyone get you down by getting on your case. Anyway, most the people that have responded to you have shown a complete lack of knowledge about pH issues.
PC :smokin:
Wow man. All we are doing it trying to help. I've read a lot of your posts and we are not trying to be condescending. We are trying to help you help yourself. This is a learning process that helps you grow with your plant.Quote:
Originally Posted by dejayou30
Like it or not, you are asking very basic questions. That is not bad in itself. Everyone here is more than happy to help. However, when you are given reference....look it up. You will get the answers to not only what you are asking now but the question you are going to ask.
This is a community. Try to treat it like one and have some respect for the experienced people that are trying to help you. They've helped me a lot, but I've also found out information by trying myself as well.
Hey- quick question/ maybe an answer...
Are you breaking in fresh hydroton?
I actually have several questions....
Did you adjust the ph when you put it into the system.....you said it was at 8.....did you adjust it to 6.0 or so before you added it? Then it went back to 8 in the system? Or was it just 8 all the way through?
A side questiion....what germination technique are you guys going to use?
PS....I hate hydroton.....for the reason Rhizome just mentioned
Hound - As I understand it, he hasn't even germinated his seeds yet. He's de-bugging his sytem before he even germinates.Quote:
Originally Posted by Weedhound
What a concept, huh? :thumbsup:
PC :smokin: