Latewood's Legacy: GH 3-part and CalMag tutorial and discussion

[latewood]

well 1st shovlboy If you are suing diamond nectar and it contains fulvic acid...etc...OMIT liquid Karma.

racer. I grow huge plants, bro generally I shoot for 4-5 feet tall, but I have a lot of piks, even with this recipe that reached or would've reached all the way to the ceiling...Damn Sativs

this recipe allows you to gain control over your grow and the plant foliage still goes crazy.

[latewood]

unknown bagseed clone but delicious. Final product in Avatar. under 400 watt MH for now. Will flower under 600 hortilux. RO water 0ppm (Have RO/DI filter). AC in room, temps are 73 on Scrog screen with great airmovement under and over screen. 900ppm with your 1-1-1 recipe 5 gallon bubble bucket. been topping off with calmag + 3ml per gallon. Water temps 65 degrees (coolworks chiller). PH steady at 5.8 with homemade doser.

Nice job...Now imagine that same canopy filled with sticky buds.

A Note. RacerX made a suggestion about the higher bloom ratios. I thought about it, and decided to add an extra baster of bloom to some of mine in flower. For those of you that have followed along...that would be 0-1-3
I don't want to add more micro as racerx and his compadre, because that is a lot of nitrogen...I think we have plenty nitrogen! So Let's kick it up a notch with an extra portion of bloom.:thumbsup: !!!Warning!!! DO NOT do this in early flower. You should be at least in week 3-4f; Where you really start to kick in the higher ppm value. If you choose to.

Nothing wrong with staying with the original recipe, and grow nice healthy stuff like BLazeIdo has:jointsmile:

this thread is starting to become fun. Peace:smokin:

p.s. Blaze...before I posted I read something about some type of sucanat sugar??? I don't know. perhaps someone else, but beware. If you must add something. Use something proven that will enhance the grow.

I am hoping that now that we have a few people that have tried this simple grow recipe, and founded it. I am going to try and coax Zandor into giving us some simple tips to beef up our buds. Peace Zandor Hint...hint...

[BlazeIdo]

If this same recipe were to be used in a larger rez (lets say 10-20 gallons). How often would the rez changes have to be performed then? Would the ratio of time to water be equal when increased? hope this makes sense. Peace

[latewood]

Thats kinda like just adding a flower booster in a way isn't it? Should I use caution when adding a booster to the 0-1-3 ratio?

Yes it is. I wouldn't go to 0-1-3 if I was using a bloom booster. I would stay with basic formula. you were right. I am upping the Bloom as an alternative to adding a bllom additive.

I am ordering hammerhead pk9-18 I think...

[latewood]

yup. 1 for 5 gallon. 1-2 in 10 gallon...2 in 18 gallon.

as far as how often you change using bigger rez...If you want change your solution less frequently. You can top off with water up to one full replacement of solution. Once you have replaced 100% of solution. Refresh with new batch.

i.e. if in 5 g bucket. once you add 5 gallons. you have to change.

if you have 10 gallon rez...then you can top-off 10 gallons of ph'd water.

I agree that 600 watt lights put out almost the same lumens as 1000 watt lamps, but the price is very close also...So alot of growers...myself included prefer to pay the little bit extra for the extra lumens.

I like the consideration of heat issue that racerx brought up. I use my old magnet ballast to enhance heat temps on the cooler winter nights.

As a matter of fact...You could heat your living space or a cooler room with the hot air you vent from grow space. Peace

[shovlboy]

Latewood, when you say top off with calmag or LK. You mean just to top off with RO water at a PH of 5.8? And only top it when the res gets low? Then when I change the water in my res, top it off with LK..ect.?

[shovlboy]

Latewood, when you say top off with calmag or LK. You mean just to top off with RO water at a PH of 5.8, with CALMAG? And only top it when the res gets low? Then after I change the water in my res, top it off with LK..ect.?

[BlazeIdo]

I'm not latewood, but yes that is what he recommends with this recipe. So mix your initial nutes, then after your girl has drank some water, mix a gallon of water with calmag or LK depending on which week it is, Ph balance and refill rez to initial fill line. I do this until I have refilled with the exact amount of water I started with then I change my Rez). Easy Cheezy.(if its earlier in the grow the plant might not drink as much water so use your judgment) Stop using LK and Calmag after week 5 in flowering. Peace

[latewood]

I'm not latewood, but yes that is what he recommends with this recipe. So mix your initial nutes, then after your girl has drank some water, mix a gallon of water with calmag or LK depending on which week it is, Ph balance and refill rez to initial fill line. I do this until I have refilled with the exact amount of water I started with then I change my Rez). Easy Cheezy.(if its earlier in the grow the plant might not drink as much water so use your judgment) Stop using LK and Calmag after week 5 in flowering. Peace

this is a perfect explanation.:thumbsup: You may still use calmag if you use rowater, and need to replenish the calcium magnesium, But not necessarily. Peace

[latewood]

I changed bloom formula to 1 part G, 1/2 part M, 3parts Bloom...Whooooyou should a seen'em jump.

I have to give racer...I believe some credit for making me look over the formulas more closely. If you notice Grow has way more potassium "K" than Micro, and now that I am mixing my own commercial nutes from powder...I learned a thing or 2. I always knew you didn't want alot of phosphates after initial dose at beginning of flower. Well LOOK at Micro. Mostly Nitrogen and Phosphates. OK you need that, we all know we want Potassium. so look again at your bottles.

You want to cut down nitrogen in flower...right? rethink.

So that is my new deal, and I got girth, crystals quicker than I have experienced before.

Thanks again Zandor. He helped me realize where I was off a bit.

So how many of you are using this formula now? Let's tweak it!!!

P>S> I got some AN hammerhead 0-9-18 Watch out. :smokin: