need a to understand the difference between rich and lean solutions

[deviant1]

about the solution, I understand what that means. rich is drinking nutes mostly and lean is water mostly. my question is: how do I fix them, I mean to correct it? im lean right now. need help thanks

 

[LlamaSchool]

Sounds like your working on a carbureted engine! ("Rich"/"Lean") What is your question exactly? If your nutrient solution has too low of a concentration of nutrients, wouldn't you just add more? Is their more to this?

 

[deviant1]

what I mean is, how can I tell when to add more nutes or more water? maybe im jus really confused now and making things too complicated. if its low on nutes, how do you know which nutes to add, or do you jus add the same mix that I began with?

 

[AlwaysLearning]

Hey hows it going. I assume you are growing in soil, so the simple way to tell when you need to add water is to just lift up the flower pot. If it seems heavy, leave it alone. If its very easy to lift, then its time to add water. Getting to where your plants are just about to droop is the perfect time to water. As for feeding, depends on your nutes and which strain you're growing. When starting out just remember less is more. If you given them too little you'll just end up with a light yield and you'll know how to modify it in the future. However if you feed too much, you could lose everything. Not sure which nutes you're using but most any nutrient solution will have a veg and flowering nutrient, just start with half of what the bottle says to feed for each phase. After you get the basics down you can start experimenting with additives and so forth. Keeping the pH in the right range is very important too, so practice getting consistent runoff readings and you'll be on the road to success. Best wishes!

 

[deviant1]

no actually alwayslearning, im in a hydro setup-dwc 18 gallon tub,filled with 12 gallons of distilled, but am going to switch to my tap water. im using gh nutes( floramicro and florabloom), using the lucas formula at 0-6-12. I thing that my biggest problem is the strains, I have 2 different in same tub (super skunk and sour diesel). its been a challenge trying to keep nutes and ph balanced while keeping plants happy. when one is healthy, the other is sick. I don't think there is a solution for my problem, atleast untill I get one of the strains outta there. ill jus put each strain in its own tub, next time I will NOT put different strains together ever again, never.

 

[dr-dank]

What I understand is,:

1. Fill ress to desired ppm.ph
2. Later, add back ro/plain water to account for transpration, and check again.

if:
a), the ppm has risen and ph has dropped, you are feeding to much
b) PPM has dropped and PH (typically rises), feed more.

When I tried this the error i made was not refilling, such that I always showed a ppm increase and a ph drop. I would tend to just add water until I had the desired ppm, then ph, but now think above is best.

Regards