4maggio
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I'm guessing that you are in Philly w tap @ 240PPMs.. "She's at 685PPMs now" 685-240= 445PPMs of your nutrient solution: Yes? 685, that's for your cuts in the cloner? seems like a lot.Yea back in the 00’s I usta do everything with tap water. In Philly it came out between 180-300 and in Cali it came in round 80 or so. The Philly water came in usually at 240. It worked great. The plants
Loved it but it smelled like it came from a fishtank. But now they use that chloramine. I think that’s what’s really fukkin me up here. Sometimes ya can just smell it. I’m gettin a filter tomorrow ta take care of most of that tomorrow.
Seems I got the wrong pheno on this Fat Bastard. I poped a sister bean a month ago that damped off but
Is still hangin in there. I’m hoping it won’t snap over before I can clone it. She’s at 685 ppm’s now so not really at full strength. But she’s lookin like she’s gonna fall over cause her stems pinched at the base. I don’t think she’ll grow outta it so soons I get a chance later I’m gonna see how close to snapping she is. If I have to Il clone her soons I get my filter. Hopefully tomorrow or day after
But if it works for you go with it and learn.
The problem I couldn't get 'educated' about was, what makes up the individual PPM elements that makes up that 240PPM tap water. Is it mostly calcium or, how much of whatever else? Cutting the tap water down with the RO seemed... In my itty-bitty brain... not knowing the mineral make up of the tap water, to eliminate that conundrum but I didn't continue with mixing RO w Tap. I'm to old to deviate from a process that has been successful for me for almost 20 years where straight RO is the way to go. In those 'mixing' years, there were 4 plants in bloom.. the cost of and the effort to obtain the RO led me to trying the mixing process.. yes it worked kinda but yield was down considerably.. why?? who knows.