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Hey thanks Salvein211! I have some questions for you! I am a huge fan of foxfarm and am more comfortable using there products. do you use half strenght on your seedlings? (on foxfarm sched). Also about the tron i rinsed it pretty good but did not give it a bath of ph corrected water.......uh uo! but your right im still pretty early on so i think i will pull the little gals and soak the hydrotron in about 6.0 pH'd water? Thanks again!!!
On seedlings, I just hand water them with pH'd water. It will take a few days when they are in your system to reach the water. The nute mix that I make up for them when they get to the water is full strength week 1 nutes that FF has on their "hydro" feeding chart tables. I think its like 3tsp per gal BB and 2tsp GB per gal. And again, it comes out to about 400ppm, and im NOT using distilled water. Some say 5.8 pH is the true number, but generally a 5.8-6.3 is the golden range imo. When you give the tron a bath, it will most likely raise the pH of the water the first time, so a 2nd bath may be needed. But when you get it to hold at about 6.0 pH, then its good to use.
Thanks again! ya I gave the tron a good bath got it to hol at 6 ph. Im going to be switching over to foxfarm tomorrow!
Actually there is nothing wrong with GH 3-part I have had great results in the past. You said half a tsp per 2 1/2 gals water? Thats way below half strength but good for lil ones. By rights u should not have to give ur babies any nutes till their 3rd to 4th set of "true" leaves appear. Full strength on GH would be more like 5ml of each part per gal of water. 5 ml = 1 teaspoon. Biggest thing is dont try and rush them. I use to start mine in Rapid Rooters and then put in 16oz plastic cups with holes poked for drainage and fill with Tron. Hand water till ready to put in whatever system u using. The water solution I used was water, clonex solution and GH Subculture for root growth. Just that will take them to nutes. I would water mine 3 times a day.
GH is what I decided to use with my ongoing hydro growing project.
Most people I have talked to tend to be quite happy with their GH nutes, so I use that as my guide. I'm actually setting up one of their hydro systems, so I'll keep a close eye on how well this system, and the nutes, perform.
I have no idea why ZiggZagger420 would say this -
>> "oh no... i see your using GH first thing you do is throw the cup and the soil IN THE TRASH!! GH is goat shit someone charges 20 dollars" <<
In all the conversations I have had with anyone, growers and folks in the hydro biz universe, I've never heard anything remotely like this from anyone.
I don't know what ZiggZagger420's agenda is, but I would be curious . . .
For what this might be worth, GH is what I decided to use with my ongoing hydro growing project.
Most people I have talked to tend to be quite happy with their GH nutes, so I use that as my guide. I'm actually setting up one of their hydro systems, so I'll keep a close eye on how well this system, and the nutes, perform.
I have no idea why ZiggZagger420 would say this -
>> "oh no... i see your using GH first thing you do is throw the cup and the soil IN THE TRASH!! GH is goat shit someone charges 20 dollars" <<
In all the conversations I have had with anyone, growers and folks in the hydro biz universe, I've never heard anything remotely like this from anyone.
I don't know what ZiggZagger420's agenda is, but I would be curious . . .
If you put them in the buckets soon, you will have to pour nute mix down the pebbles close to the plant because the rings are too far away from the roots to do much good. I think the real purpose in drip ring is to put oxygen in the water, not necessarily wash the roots with nute mix. You'll have to keep hand feeding until roots are established down into the bucket where they get nute mix.
Is that a fan at the bottom? If so you might want to hang it up top because heat rises and in such a small space you want to suck out most of the heat as quickly as it's made. This means placing a fan at the top of the grow space.
Your grow bucket are a dwc type system except where dwc shoots air into water, drip ring puts oxygen into water by having it pass or hydroton pebbles. You can take you ppm's higher in dwc methods because there is actually less oxygen than aeroponics, which uses a lower ppm. You could probably take your ppm up to 750 or so. The ppm goes up as you see it doing because pH down is actually a fert. It's causing your ppm to go up and pH to go down. If you use actual fertilizer to raise your ppm, you should see your pH drop some, giving you a more balanced ppm/pH ratio.
If you don't pour nute mix over the hydroton several times a day, you're going to have to find a way to get the roots down in the water like remove alot of the pebbles and raise the water level. I suspect you might be giving too much light in such a small space, you'll have to cut them back frequently to keep them contained in that small space. If this works right, they'll start to grow like crazy.
im using gh 3 part. what recipe deid you use for those juicy buds?