time to flower?

[chronosync]

40 days

40 days

 

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[Bwanabud]

Look great Chrono, coming along nicely

 

[chronosync]

Shanks ya

 

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Im feeding them @ 1000ppm

Using gh cocotek + liq. Koolbloom. Equal parts.

N-P-K
3-15-16

Is that too much? It mimics MaxiBloom stats almost identical.

 

[Bwanabud]

What's the PPM of your water ?,,,did you work up to the 1000 ?, or jam it down their throat and say "eat it bitch"

 

[chronosync]

well

well

ias soon as i got a meter i tested my tap. its well water near a highway so who knows. 320ppm ph around 7

what i did was measured what i had been feeding and decided to start adding liq. koolbloom but keeping it around 800ppm as thats what they seemed ok on. gradulally increasing until i was around 900-1100 ppm fooling with ratios a little adding N at one point becaue i thought they needed to be taller. but mostly keeping it around 900 always adding 3ml KB. this past few days i have decided to give them the maxibloom ratio which seems really high, but as i have been giving them decent quantities of KB along with ramping the feed they seem to be happy.

what do you think abut this?

 

[Bwanabud]

That sounds fine, I use KoolBloom also,,,along with others. BTW:I have well water too, mine is 40 PPM...but certainly want to get your meter squared away.

Plants look great, congrats bro

 

[chronosync]

Thanks man! I appreciate that big time.

What do you mean meter squared away? I want to start collecting rain and snow to use.

 

[Bwanabud]

Thanks man! I appreciate that big time.

What do you mean meter squared away? I want to start collecting rain and snow to use.

I'm on a "stupid" roll tonight, I misread your meter was broke...never mind

I use a lot of rain/snow for water, have a large collecting system,,,dumps it into a 1000 gal. cistern, then pumps it up to my building with a jet pump. Watch your PH adjust, it will move really fast with no elements in the water...like your well/city water does. I usually mix well & rain, you need some of the elements that are in your well water...like Calcium & Mag, or you'll just have to add it anyway.

 

[chronosync]

That sounds pretty great. Im hauling water either way so why not get it pure from the sky. Last i checked it was really lowppm like 20? Could be wrong i forget. I just have to figure out a way to hold it and keep it clean.

When you asked what my starting ppm was, im just curious why you asked. Im tempted to go buy some bottled water and mix to see where it would be at if i was using RO.

would it read at 700ppm because thats total ppm minus tap ppm.

Does that mean i could still feed @ 1000ppm ? Because the cocotek nutes have the calmag covered thats why i never added any like you suggested. Well water/high starting ec, cal/mg in nutes, plus adding more.... Theres no way they neeed it.

Im still trying to figure it out. I really need to source my water and be done with it. Otherwise whats the point of hydro?

Im leaning more twords kiss style growing, promix and just feeding heavy for weight.

 

[Bwanabud]

My rain water here is 7 PPM, based on your location it's best to check your PH also...acid rain has caused havoc with the natural world. The storage is critical, you need to filter and securely store it or bugs/mosquitoes will get in it.

All strains are a bit different, and growing media effects nute requirements,,,so I'd hate to give advice on feeding, other than give them what they ask for. I feed an additional CalMag at 5ml per gal, each feeding...but my girls are pigs, always hungry....I push my feed numbers up to 1400 PPM total in weeks 6-7,,,but I work up to that, and have experimented for a long time.

I'm all ProMix here, but all of the available grow methods work...just have to pick your style, and stick with it to success. What works for 1, doesn't always work for another.

 

[chronosync]

Apparently all rain is acidic. It combines with co2 in the atmosphere and creates carbolic acid. Im def pH down to 5.8-6 its hard to tell because im using a fish tank kit. I shoot for 6 and hope the plants dont mind the swing.

One thing tho. One plant i decided to flush at 1/2 strength nutes to see if they all would benefit from a flush. So that plant missed a full strength feeding and is now yellowing from edges inward and is showing brown tips.

 

[Bwanabud]

My rain water is 6.8 PH, so not neutral...but certainly not "acidic"...distilled water is usually around 6 PH, until you open the jug and expose it to air.

Are you pure hydro ?

 

[chronosync]

Yea im doing coco dtw gh nutes. Cocotek, koolbloon, floralicious plus. Next run i plan on using seaweed, rapid start, silica, and some kind of myc. Im also toying with just going hydro organic. Or even do some dirt. Ill be sticking with this coco shit for a while tho. Probably when i have to buy more stuff ill try a PBP run with promix or something.

What should i do about that plant? Its showing signs of def. and overfeed?

 

[Bwanabud]

Any pics of leaves in natural light ?.. are the leaves curling, or saw teeth turned up ?...did you check the run-off PH to see what the root zone is feeling ?

You need a digital PH meter bro, big time.

 

[chronosync]

pics

pics

Ive checked runoff a few times before, nothing alarming.. Ppms a little lower or same ph always tested at around 6

I had cheapo ph pen but it only lasted a week. I guess youre not sopposed to keep it in tap... Im fine with strips and drops right now as much as i would love to have quality calibrated instruments. Yup.

 

[EastCoast710]

neeed to get those temps up a bit.. 78-80 lights on.. 65-70 lights off.. keep your humidity up a little also. 37% could be raised.. try to follow the VPD chart./

 

[Bwanabud]

Remind me...how old are they again ?

And East Coast is right, those are too low of temps...60 F they don't grow, and lock out the nutes...it's all about a happy root zone, and yours are cold bro.

 

[chronosync]

I know! Theres no heat down there, i got to figure something out. I still have them on the floor too. Its s catch 22 because there are still mites down there.

The plants are 42 days in flower so six weeks. They were vegged probably 5 weeks.