Want to dial in my nutes a little more.

[BlueBear]

I am looking for some input on my nutes. I would like to see if anyone else is using any of the same amounts as I am so I can perhaps dial mine in more. At this point I have no real complaints, but I am always trying to improve the grow. My grow medium is Black Gold organic Potting soil with 50% perlite. Plants are 4 weeks and about 12 in high, under CFL's for first 2 and 1/2 weeks and under a 1K Hortilux every since. Short SOG strain in 2 gallon pots, picking out a mother right now.
Nutes and so on, Super Thrive 1/2 cc per gallon, Liquid Karma, 3cc PG, Cal Mag 3cc PG, GH Florolicias grow 2cc PG and Grow Juice 20 CC PG. The PPM is at about 625. The PH is at about 6.0 without PH up or down. Any experiences with these products and the amounts used will be greatly appreciated. When I go to flower I will drop the Super Thrive, Grow juice, Florolicias grow and go with GH Floralicias bloom and FF Big bloom.
Adieu

BlueBear Reviewed by BlueBear on 09-04-2006. Want to dial in my nutes a little more. I am looking for some input on my nutes. I would like to see if anyone else is using any of the same amounts as I am so I can perhaps dial mine in more. At this point I have no real complaints, but I am always trying to improve the grow. My grow medium is Black Gold organic Potting soil with 50% perlite. Plants are 4 weeks and about 12 in high, under CFL's for first 2 and 1/2 weeks and under a 1K Hortilux every since. Short SOG strain in 2 gallon pots, picking out a mother right now. Nutes Rating: 5

[BOYZNUS]

ALL I CAN COMMENT ON IS:

MY PPM IS ABOUT 1300, AFTER ALL IS SAID AND DONE.

[BlueBear]

Your PPm is 1300? You must have some heavy eaters. What age are you taking them that high? I did 1165 and had some burn. I was just experimenting and wanted to see how they would handle it.
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[Racerx]

All strains are different so you sort of just need to do what your doing...slowly raising it till you get a little burn. For instance, right now my G13 and TW are just loving 1600ppm, but they are around 3 feet tall and 5 weeks into flowering. My Alaskan loves 1600ppm and its much much smaller, it just eats a ton. However my Cindy 99 and Afghani Kush can only handle about 1200 right now.

I start at 275ppm, horrible water here. I use 1 part GH Flora Nova. I am assuming you have a PPM meter? Your mixture can be much different then your labels may suggest. Plus you never know with your water (unless you are using RO of course).

When my plants were about 4 weeks old, I was giving them about 600ppm of nutes giving me about a 900 total ppm. I use the same res for a few different strains so I have to sort of find an average between them.

[BlueBear]

The strains I am working with are Bigge and Allpha 13, both are from the Doc. My PPM right out of the tap is at about 100 so I don't feel the need for RO. Ya, at about 4 weeks I am in the mid 600's, but I think that my next feeding will take them up to 7ish. I am still trying to find out the best way to post pics. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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[Racerx]

The strains I am working with are Bigge and Allpha 13, both are from the Doc. My PPM right out of the tap is at about 100 so I don't feel the need for RO. Ya, at about 4 weeks I am in the mid 600's, but I think that my next feeding will take them up to 7ish. I am still trying to find out the best way to post pics. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Adieu

Do you have a digital camera? If so, you dont even need a program to grab pictures, all you need is Windows XP and USB. Plug the camera into the computer and a little thing should pop up asking what you want to do. Choose "Open files" or "View Files" and there should only be a few folders to choose from. Look around them until you find all your pictures. Then you can cut and paste or copy and paste from there onto a folder on your desktop. No program needed.

After that, you can open those pictures with even just "Paint" (located in your start menu under accessories). Go to the "Image" toolbar and do "sketch/skew", then choose something like 50-60% depending on what megapixel your camera is. Save the file with a different file name. Or use a program that comes with most cameras to extra and resize pictures.

If you have no camera...well go buy one. You can find a cheap digital camera for easily under $100. Even $50. They work fine for still pictures, but zoom is a plus.