PH @ 5.9 PPM @ 1200

Thomas & WH you are right about nute burn when they were babies I nearly killed em...but I've seen almost 0 sex development at 16 Days in flower so I was getting anxious...it's been about 17 hours since I dumped in the nutes at this point so unless I see somethin bad I'll just chill here for now (I was wondering if temp affects ppm...like if a plant sweats more would ya need to have a lower ppm cause it wants to drink more water which takes in more nutes?)

bonger thanks for the info on the bubbler I gotta put somethin together really soon...feel free to post all ya want I'm not picky...I'm glad you mentioned the cd for comparison/guidance cause that is statistical data and the only thing better than data(experience) is formula...I feel the best way to grow is just find what makes the plant thrive...if you have the right instructions from the start you should get pretty close to the ideal result...

Have you come up with a structure for saving that data and used excel to create mean comparisons between the variables? For instance...if you were gonna grow a new strain you could weight the variables accordingly and get a list of estimated grow constraints for that strain...once you've harvested you'd have practical results to go over the original estimates and tighten up the +/- on your weighting system...lemme know if yer interested cause I'm starting to ramble again haha it would make a killer program though if you could type in a list of however many things and it spits out what you should do

I actually just saw Zandor post that 5.2-5.5 is the ideal ph for hydro...I created a thread with 4 questions I think related to that subject and hopefully it sparks some conversation if nothing else...I've read that ph needs change throughout and the ph vs nute uptake charts seem to support it but without experience I wanted to hear what Z has to say cause practice differs from theory(not that theory is wrong just that the people creating the theory usually don't think of everything) I've read 5.5 to 6.5 but the only thing I've had to guide that is if you want to absorb more N or P...I'd much rather know why you should be at a specific PH when you have a certain list of variables ie strain lighting ppm nodes etc but if he's right (regardless of why) I certainly wanna drop from the 5.9 I'm at now

As for the plants...Eve has a bunch of pistil sites now but they are all still very tiny, even the first site to show isn't any bigger I got a couple pics of her...Zola has a couple hairs that I can't explain as a leaf cause they look too white/clear I got a pic but it doesn't look the best...Olive is a bit taller/thicker but no sex development to speak of and no clear pics of her at all yet

I fixed my camera...I remembered it went screwy when it was watching the light refresh rate like those old monitors so I took it back when the light was on and aimed it right at the bulb...the screen went crazy for a second but then came back into focus musta been stuck trying to account for those refresh waves even though they weren't there anymore...it worked fine after that till the batts died...I was using reg duracell (junk) instead of my rechargable camera batts cause those were like 5 years old and finally went...I'll get new ones soon and see if I can post some better pics oh and the camera is 8 optical to correct my earlier post I've been taking pics on a super low resolution cause I've had to e-mail them but that should be fixed soon too

I'm not sure it matters but I picked up an air pump and some air stones for my res I was thinking about placing the stones near the pump intake so the solution is O2'd rather than pumping it in through the hydroton lemme know what ya think

PS 5 of the seeds have cracked so I made a little paper towel setup for em...they're between 2 damp papertowels on a plate that's sitting on a cookie sheet with a pyrex baking bowl over the plate to hold in moisture I put some water in the cookie sheet so I don't have to worry about it drying out for a longer period of time and just put the whole setup on a heating pad haha a picture would explain that way better I'm sure...getting tired

Tons more work to do but it's time for bed...lemme know if ya can tell Zola is a chick from the pic