12/26 Journal update + Bucket change
HoHo! Hopefully you all had a great christmas.
So today was a reservoir change day. I did little adjustments to the V-blend formula. Felt like needed little more balance between K & Ca, to get it closer to 2:1. And had a bit high phosphorus ppm’s which may have had an impact on stem elongation.. Thus Phosphorus ppm values were reduced as well.
New patch is:
*start - tap water 115ppm (19ppm Ca)
#1. 1.6ml/l (6ml/g) GHE Micro
-> N: 100ppm, K: 21ppm, Ca: 120ppm
#2. 1.4ml/l (5.3ml/g) GHE Bloom
-> P: 33ppm, K: 53ppm, Mg: 48ppm, S: 82ppm
#3. 0.8ml/l (3ml/g) GHE Grow
-> N: 26ppm, P: 3ppm, K: 44ppm, Mg: 8ppm
#4. 0.7ml/l (2.8ml/g) Remo Astro Flower
-> N: 8ppm, P: 20ppm, K: 74ppm, S: 10ppm
#5. 2.2ml/l (8.3ml/g) Terpinator
-> K: 76ppm
- N: 135ppm
- P: 56ppm
- K: 268ppm
- Ca: 140ppm
- Mg: 56ppm
- Ending
TDS: 1030ppm / EC: 2.0-2.1
- pH: nutes buffered tap water down to 6 and lowered it down to 5.8 for start & full range sweep.
* Beneficials and B’cuzz Silic boost 0.6ml/10L for ~33ppm of Si.
These values looking heaps better already, because I’ve a feeling that 295ppm of K with 110ppm Ca was a bit too much.
Didn’t realize at all how big she was until I took her out from the tent
And PP#1 Logan went for the flush today. I guess she’d be ready in ~two weeks tops.
12/26 tent groupie
30 is about my target now. I've gone as low as 20 with an experimental grow, seeing how little P you really need. I've been up as high as 60. I didn't really see any benefit at 60.
Hey
@farside05 and thanks for the reply.
As mentioned above that excessive P most likely caused some unwated stem elongation, and decided to decrease the ppm value.
My Ca target is around 80-90. I like my Mg to be 1/3 of my Ca. I'll use this quote "Both Ca and Mg ions have a +2 charge. Ions with equal charges can affect the uptake of one another.
Yesh, thats why I’m aiming close to 3:1 Ca:Mg ratio — and CBT studies shown that 50-70ppm of Mg is best range for the flowering plant. Also Calcium being little bumped up now because K:Ca ratio was little off, and by judging the stem tissue it’s lacking Ca and/or Si.
Until a couple months ago, I was doing much the same as you, mixing existing products to try to get to my goals. Now I've bought the raw salts and can blend things much closer to my targets
Oh and ye, Ive been thinking about that because my local hydrostore has available ”RAW” brands dry salts and Canna’s liquid ones.
Probs going to finish this round with my bottles and next round could mix and blend everything just as I want.
Thanks for stoppin!
Smoky holidays
- V
Can’t wait to see how the buds set! Quite different than soil cultivation.
thank you my friend.
