Bennys RDWC heaven
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KangarooLover
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its a kelp and it cleans right off roots with light rinse is there another way to prevent algae? that you can recommend
I never experimented with a kelp extract in hydro. Before going to hydro, I was a 100% recycled organic soil guy and kelp was my main ingredient. I can attest to its success in soil but never tried anything with it in hydro.
As far as algae prevention, the main contributing factor is light penetration in your containers.
I follow a Sypes regiment (active grower on here) and use chlorine @ one drop per gallon every 7 days. It keeps the reservoir sterile and so far no algae for me.
Ya its a little difficult right now. Lets just say I am a prisoner to my home for the next 45 days and cant really go anywhere.........I am diligently working on getting out because I am self employed....and self employment is legit so no worries....peace brotha from anotha motha.
KangarooLover
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hmm chlorine is safe to use? i try and stay organic as possible with hydro
Which is completely okay, no right or wrong answer here. All I am conveying is I prefer a completely sterile environment within my hydro solution. Anytime I have ever ventured off and tried adding beneficial organisms, I have had bad experiences resulting in root problems.
To each their own. Different strokes for different folks.
Chlorine is bad in a hydro concept trying to abide by organic principles. Absolutely.
KangarooLover
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now the world don't beat to the beat of JUST ONE DRUM!!! what might be right for you may not be right for some now a man is born a man of means some thing soemthign soemthign hahaa love that song not as good as three is company theme but its up there lol
and I think only reason I am having pretty nice success is I use root defense product like rock nutrient supercharge not only can u double its dose to get rid of root rot u can use at reg dose to also prevent root issues what do u feel about these products also ive been using rock nutrients haven't flowered yet but seems to be top notch stuff threw veg and the root protection
To be honest, I have never heard of those products until you just mentioned them. How long have you been using those products?
I really like that it is a single one part base. Your using them with DWC?
KangarooLover
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They just hit Americas market it feels like but have been around 18 years. Rock I got idea to use them cause of a cup winner super lemon og NOT hightimes cup some other. But was grown by ghost grower using ROCK. So checked out their YouTube channel and researched them they sounded really good, What sold me was the feeding chart was really Simple and descriptive. so I just started using as said only used in veg I am going to try the Resinator and Bloom in next couple weeks had to make a move with garden and letting them settle down before I switch to Flower. Before this tho I did use Root EXCel still use in both hydro and soil grows root excel is solid and I pretty much use housed and garden before this and even after this I will still use house and garden in soil. Possibly do nutrient challenge in near future H&G vs ROCK.ROCK from what I got from the guy I talked to is more for hydro and thrives in it I would recommend it so far.
I like the super charge root tonic tho because it makes more lateral roots which suck up more water from what I read. I will post pictures of the lateral roots in couple days. also the foliar spray is really nice only use once a week tho I got trigger happy and sprayed 2 or 3 times in week plants got some minor burns on leafs from over spraying they even recommend spray plain water after spraying the foliar spray
and yes its what I use in DWC Im liking DWC to compared to Ebb and flow table
Thanks man, ROCK really sparked my interest. I will follow your grow if you post up a link and will pick some up if it works well for you during flower. I would like to see some root pics if you dont mind. That supercharge sounds pretty cool.
KangarooLover
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will do man they do sound nice what you using now ?
I use locus formula but wouldn't mind using a one part base.
Miraculous Meds
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any of these decent quality nutrient companies will grow excellent plants. I wouldn't waist much time trying one vs the other. Id invest my time in learning the nutrient I chose really well. Ionic is a good 1 part. I like gh. Just use the micro and bloom. But any will do. Really I haven't had to worry about nutrients in a long time. Once u understand the basics u take nutrient problems related to the actual nutrient out of the equation totally. Then if u have a prob its environment, ph, bugs, or watering frequency. That's it.
I agree, especially for soil. I never used bottle nutrients in soil but hydro is a different beast. I use Lucas as of now, but for whatever reason I can't figure out is why my plants always respond negatively to a compete nutrient flush.
I'm am at the point of considering canceling reservoir flushes entirely.
Forget lucas! Just go with Jack's! You can't beat the price vs quality. The ease of use blows everything else out of the water as well. I've ran Lucas, 3 part, Maxigrow/bloom... None come close to how easy to use and how great the quality is with Jack's.
Use RO water, get the ratio between the parts right, and forget adjusting or checking pH. Use the same volume of RO each time and forget checking concentration. It's really a beautiful thing.
I ran a single site recirculating Coco PPK last run and never did a reservoir change, never adjusted pH, and only added a couple plain water buckets to the reservoir here and there. This was the entire veg + bloom. ~16 weeks... Obviously RDWC and Coco PPK's are night and day, but when you look at how little thought I put into it using Jack's, that says something.
Buy the 25# bags of Jack's and CalNit. It's like $100. You won't regret it.
Use RO water, get the ratio between the parts right, and forget adjusting or checking pH. Use the same volume of RO each time and forget checking concentration. It's really a beautiful thing.
I ran a single site recirculating Coco PPK last run and never did a reservoir change, never adjusted pH, and only added a couple plain water buckets to the reservoir here and there. This was the entire veg + bloom. ~16 weeks... Obviously RDWC and Coco PPK's are night and day, but when you look at how little thought I put into it using Jack's, that says something.
Buy the 25# bags of Jack's and CalNit. It's like $100. You won't regret it.
Jacks sounds interesting too and cheap.
Which jacks are you specifically using? They have a lot of stuff, for soil and hydro
Jacks hydro. Great stuff. Almost as good as rols/tlo. 
Smplfrmr
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GH since forever
GH since forever
Lol I have used a very similar nute reg for a few years now in soil, dwc,rdwc,ebb n flow. I have grown allot as a gardener and continuously improve quality and yield unless I stray from said formula. So IMHO if you use any decent nutrients you can achieve your goals if you just fine tune skill along the way.
GH since forever
Lol I have used a very similar nute reg for a few years now in soil, dwc,rdwc,ebb n flow. I have grown allot as a gardener and continuously improve quality and yield unless I stray from said formula. So IMHO if you use any decent nutrients you can achieve your goals if you just fine tune skill along the way.
Well I finally checked on the plants today, its been like 8 days. They werent the happiest but werent horrible. pH was out of range at 6.6 which caused them to stop feeding. Lowered back down to 5.5.
EC was also to high @ 1.0ec/1000ppm -.5 conversation, they all showed signs of over fertilization. Adjusted back down to .6ec/300ppm where they seem to do best.
gonna give them 48 hours to re establish and move onto 12/12.
Gotta get this show on the road. My cuts are starting to root, by friday I should have my veg system filled so when these plants are done, Ill have some nicely vegged girls to go right back into flower.
EC was also to high @ 1.0ec/1000ppm -.5 conversation, they all showed signs of over fertilization. Adjusted back down to .6ec/300ppm where they seem to do best.
gonna give them 48 hours to re establish and move onto 12/12.
Gotta get this show on the road. My cuts are starting to root, by friday I should have my veg system filled so when these plants are done, Ill have some nicely vegged girls to go right back into flower.
