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re: Cardboard Flowerbox Test 3 - 41 Week Perpetual SOG
Yeah, been a little dodgy on the phone connectivity.... VOIP is haywire, sorry about the call. I didn't even get the message until tonight, and I had to call TWICE jsut to get it to tell me that there really was a message. I usually get an e-mail telling me that there is, but I got nothing until I actually picked up the message from within voicemail, then I got the e-mail, as I was saving it. Psh... technology has not been on my side these past few days.
I'm a bit hesitant to use mycorrhizae in a hydro system, as I've had biotics do very bad things and cause wild pH fluctuations, clogging, sludge, and all sorts of bad in the system. I've been scouring the interwebs (lol) to find anyone using it in either a top drip, or ebb & flow system, but it seems that loads of people have gone sterile in their solution. Also when adding sugar for the little fungus to eat, it seems to draw a myriad of other unwanted bacteria. Is there a way you know of to keep the baddies out while cultivating the beneficial? I can't seem to find a good way to keep the balance.
Yeah, meters seem to be the culprit in just about everything gone bad in hydro. At the hydro shop yesterday, they actually suggested I keep a backup of DROPS just in case things go awry again, I can use chemicals to spot check for meter madness. The stuff they had only had a resolution of 1pH though ad since mine was only off be -.3 I didn't think that that large of resolution would have really helped me narrow things down.
Jandre, I am glad that you got your pH meter problem solved. I am currently working on a helpful hints document and pH is the first topic. I get many growers requesting help and that is FIRST thing I ask most of the time. pH meters go haywire all the time which leads to fucked up grows. Typically, I know what the pH should be when I add certain nutrients and if it is off, I immediately calibrate my meter. I also always have a handful of them hand so I can double check. Personally, I now rely on a HM-digital PH-200 which has an accuracy of +/- 0.02 which is very good. I have found that if needs to be calibrated ofter. The electrode storage solution I use has a pH of 4.0 and if I take if out, turn it on, put it back in and the pH is off by +/- .1 or more, I calibrate with calibration solutions 4.0 and 7.0. If I suspect a certain nutrient, I will adjust the pH more in that direction to see if that helps. For phosphorus, I will typicallyup it to about 6.0-6.1. The reason I replied back to you as P deficiency being "odd" is that there is more than enough P in my 3 part using the recommend feed schedule. Phosphorus is usually required at a range of 30 to 50 ppm and using "Crazy Growth" will supply about 75 ppm of P which is more than enough to prevent P deficiency. Mycorrhizae is also VERY efficient at increasing the P uptake in most alll species of plants. The only problem with adding mycorrhizae is that using a sterility product like the DM Zone will kill off that fungus.
Sorry I took so long to get back to you buddy. I called you and left a message but you never got back to me!
Yeah, been a little dodgy on the phone connectivity.... VOIP is haywire, sorry about the call. I didn't even get the message until tonight, and I had to call TWICE jsut to get it to tell me that there really was a message. I usually get an e-mail telling me that there is, but I got nothing until I actually picked up the message from within voicemail, then I got the e-mail, as I was saving it. Psh... technology has not been on my side these past few days.
I'm a bit hesitant to use mycorrhizae in a hydro system, as I've had biotics do very bad things and cause wild pH fluctuations, clogging, sludge, and all sorts of bad in the system. I've been scouring the interwebs (lol) to find anyone using it in either a top drip, or ebb & flow system, but it seems that loads of people have gone sterile in their solution. Also when adding sugar for the little fungus to eat, it seems to draw a myriad of other unwanted bacteria. Is there a way you know of to keep the baddies out while cultivating the beneficial? I can't seem to find a good way to keep the balance.
Yeah, meters seem to be the culprit in just about everything gone bad in hydro. At the hydro shop yesterday, they actually suggested I keep a backup of DROPS just in case things go awry again, I can use chemicals to spot check for meter madness. The stuff they had only had a resolution of 1pH though ad since mine was only off be -.3 I didn't think that that large of resolution would have really helped me narrow things down.
