ECC METER

[legal growman]

How is everyone I just got a feed meter that goes basically to 250 as a max

My prob is my well water is 88 do I ignore this on the meter and pretend the meter is at zero
I could realy use some expert help because I bought the meter because I am pretty well blind thanks for any imput

legal growman Reviewed by legal growman on 11-20-2006. ECC METER How is everyone I just got a feed meter that goes basically to 250 as a max My prob is my well water is 88 do I ignore this on the meter and pretend the meter is at zero I could realy use some expert help because I bought the meter because I am pretty well blind thanks for any imput Rating: 5

[u.g.u]

if your well water is at 88 and you wanted 100 in nutes your meter would read 188.
*edit*sorry i was thinking ppm but you would think it would be the same principle

[legal growman]

you would think that but when I measure the nutes out it is like the 88 doesn,t matter more expert advice please

[CaliJay]

The ppm or EC (same thing different system) of your well water is reading micro nutrients and not the NPK nutrients. You will need to be cautious that you have enough of these micros in your mix. When using Reverse osmosis filtered water you have nearly zero disolved solids. The nutrient manufacturers either cannot put enough micro nutes in their formula without locking of other nutes or they allow for some of these micros that are usually present in tap water. The main micros that are usually lacking are Calcium and Magnesium. Your water sounds like it may be OK but may be a little light on the Cal/Mag. My tap comes out very low at 33 ppm so I use a product called Cal-Mag to supplement the micros.
The earlier post was correct though you do not account for the ppms/ec present prior to adding nutes. I would try to do without Cal Mag and if you see any chlorosis or necrosis developing I would diagnosis it as a Cal/Mag defiecency as a first option.

Good luck and let us know how they are doing...



Peace and Love -Jay

Look for leaves doing this...

[BONG0]

you would think that but when I measure the nutes out it is like the 88 doesn,t matter more expert advice please

seems like kind of a pushy way to request info...

[legal growman]

Thanks for the info sorry if I seemed pushy the girls are in their 3 week of flower and I am running the nutes at 187 .next week I will raise it to 200 then to 220 max , if I could see the girls it would be a lot easier to notice problems of over fert that is why I got the meter I will feel the leaves and hope I do not over do it on nutes you do not relize how lucky you are to have sight thanks again