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You want to judge my plants, and hope to blame something on the tap?Show me your tap water plants
Ok... how many weeks
I have very few pics for beauties sake. What can you tell me about it.
You want to judge my plants, and hope to blame something on the tap?Show me your tap water plants
RO screws my yields on the whole. Dans 0.7 EC is perhaps in the south south/east where they have a lot of chalk. One Great guy here, moved from London to Wales, and started carting IBCs of water from London, because the Welsh soft water just wasn't doing it.
Dan, you are dunking that meter a bit deep. Most cheapies are not waterproof to that level.
Calibrated it lately?
I have not seen a report from your area, but you have the same Ca as me. My water is moderately hard, about 0.4
A gram of salt in a liter of water, is EC2
If you have ice in the fridge, it might measure zero when melted. Or maybe you have a bit of rain coming (water butt?). You could do with seeing some water is zero, before chucking some salt in. You might need powder scales if you can only scrape the freezer compartment out
I guess you need a 12.? for calibration, but can at least check what's going on with a 2.0 solution. If your maths is good, you can make that 12.? you need. I forget the number, as I have never had a meter to calibrate
Presuming the reader was correctly callibrated with callibration liquid...I just checked my meter and it says it does EC as well. First time I've seen this like a dumbass lol but its also not the same scale as others like 0.4 etc. This is what plain tap water looks like with both EC and ppm.
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I just find it really weird I used to have great results in my old flat and now its gone to shit. And I'm pretty sure the water is the same because I literally moved across the road.
Didn't you say you did those under a 600 HPS, and now you use LED.Shit. What a crap time to get a new freezer. Got a new one a couple weeks ago and the frost hasn't built up yet
I posted a pic of my water report a couple posts back. Don't get me wrong I believe everything you guys are saying and I thank you for your time but I just find it really weird I used to have great results in my old flat and now its gone to shit. And I'm pretty sure the water is the same because I literally moved across the road. I can see my old flat from my window.
I've only got a couple pics from my old grows but these were from the old spot.
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More nonsense I'm afraid.
Yes, the EC of your tap water, sometimes isn't enough information. Though it's a useful guide, that's generally enough information.Ppm and tds is useless.
It's sure as heck won't tell you how much calcium or magnesium is in the water by %, just that the lower the EC generally means there has to be lower cal/mag and whatever else mixed in there. But who knows what the exact % of it all is. It differs everywhere you test. Like I said, someone's EC of 1 could be because it's chalk full of magnesium. Maybe calcium.... who knows? Maybe evaporate the water and test the dust
Presuming the reader was correctly callibrated with callibration liquid...
0348 PPM / 500 = 0.696
So yes, this is on the 500 scale of PPM.
0.7 EC is even higher. You need to let at least allow the chloride in the water to evaporate at room temperature or higher for a day or more - which will measurably lower the pH and EC.
There are a lot of nutrients and micronutrients in the water. If you use a filter, those will have to be replaced. So you should keep the calmag in case you start filtering the water.
At 0.7 EC, you really don't need to use extra calcium.
Something is different then. Even genetics will play a part.
In saline soils, excess ions frequently include chlorides, sulphates, bicarbonates, sodium, calcium and magnesium. The effects from the presence of all these ions on plant growth are generally evaluated by comparing the reaction of plants growing in isosmotic solutions of different salts. A generalization of the toxic effect of salts and ions is not possible due to the different responses among species and even among varieties of the same plant species (Richards, 1954).
Didn't you say you did those under a 600 HPS, and now you use LED.
I worked out your lighting around 850umol, but I don't know how big your old tent is to make a comparison. A 600 is ~1000umol at source, so in a typical 1.2s 1.44sqm, you get ~675 to light a meter. However the losses with an HID are greater than the 15% with LED, as a lot more has to reflect off something before it gets to the plants. Easily twice as much by my eye. Giving minimal illumination.
If the tent was a 1x1 it's still not as bright as your LED, and LED has a more blue weighted spectrum. Which our current thinking says is more stressful.
Your light has changed, and perhaps by a large margin
Ppm and tds is useless.
It's sure as heck won't tell you how much calcium or magnesium is in the water by %, just that the lower the EC generally means there has to be lower cal/mag and whatever else mixed in there. But who knows what the exact % of it all is. It differs everywhere you test. Like I said, someone's EC of 1 could be because it's chalk full of magnesium. Maybe calcium.... who knows? Maybe evaporate the water and test the dust
@DanTheReggaeFan maybe check the EC in your run off water for us too
Maybe salty Arrrgggh'matey! Haha who knows ?
Yes, the EC of your tap water, sometimes isn't enough information. Though it's a useful guide, that's generally enough information.
EC is useful, where two people have the same feed, and talk about how much of it they use. Even different feeds, it's often close enough.
All on your ownsome, you might set up your tank with all your salts, knowing the exact PPM by weighing them into the tank individually. That's when you measure the EC. Over time, you might see the EC increase, and so add water. Or you might see it decrease, and add more of your balanced feed. You won't know exactly which bits of the feed decreased though. Almost certainly NPK in the greatest amounts. While other things have been barely touched. We can't tell with any meter. We just know to add more food, but occasionally change the barrel if it's recirculating. Or get some run off in drip.
PPM meters play no part in professional grows. Though home growers scaling up, might take their PPM meter with them. Right up to the day they get seen with it.
I must object to my own post here. The idea a tank must be changed, isn't exactly right. In practice, we will all run our tanks with mild excesses. Making everything available, and nothing particularly toxic. Just as long as we keep changing it.
There is another grow style. It's not for us. In this other grow style (which I have barely just heard of) we know what a finished plant will contain. So we put it in the tank, slowly but surely. The feed is on the shelf, in the tank, or in the plant. There is no waste of feed or water. This is space travel. P levels between 15 and 28ppm, depending on water use efficiency. Really... it's not even worth reading about for most of us. However, such papers are written by people that drop a lot of things we can use elsewhere. So I might look. First it's a wue thread though. I can't get near 3g per liter of water used. I'm barely half way there.
PPM and TDS do not measure the same. EC has nothing to do with it as it doesn't use any scaling..More nonsense I'm afraid.
You can have an EC of 1
You can have a PPM of 1
You can't have a TDS of 1. It's not a measurement scale.
TDS is measured in PPM. The x500 factor is used when you have table salt in solution, and want to know how much by measuring the solutions EC. The meter, internally, will measure the EC (as that's all it can do) then x500 to give you a number. A number very close to the PPM of table salt required, to give that EC it measured.
At least it has EC/CF
I actually use CF myself, but talk EC online, because science.
I agree, multiple diff strain plants all acting up is saying something. Not genetics involved.
TDS will measure dissolved salts an other crap that EC doesn't like pesticides and chemicals.PPM and TDS do not measure the same. EC has nothing to do with it as it doesn't use any scaling..
My plants will look like shit if I feed with my meter set to TDS. We don't feed our plants with 1PPM LOL. 1ec is not even close to the same as 1ppm lol.