Gosh I sure hope so. This has been pretty pitiful to this point but the thing is, if this does fix them, I will have a very good idea of what to do from the start of a new grow to eliminate this from happening again.
The reason why I say more perlite and castings when they were babies is just for cutting the soil strength a bit as seedlings. I think I'm about 1/3rd or better already for aeration, I think I just needed to tame it down a tad. We will see. If they aren't happy now, I'll keep guessing
Hi fanleaf, wow i'm glad to see you're growing in the rev's mix. I just mixed up 32 gallons of his 2.2 recipe and it's cooking now. Thanks for the journal, I'll be looking through it for a while. I haven't gone past the first post...how's it going?
It' going....well,,,it's going. It's a learning process for sure. once you get caught up to this point in the journal I think it will be helpful for starting a TLO grow for sure. Don't underestimate the power contained in this soil would be my best advice so far.
Haha, I'm encouraged. Thanks. I've used store bought for some time but It's likely not as latently powerful as the revs recipe. Not phing water is going to be so so much better for me too. Later.
It's very cool to watch the soil pH as well. I bought the exact meter that Rev uses and shows in the book. When I first mixed up the soil it was a 4.9 pH! Roughly a week later it was like 5.2, a week later 5.5 and after 3 weeks is was about 5.9-6.0. Now, after cooking fully it has stayed a constant 6.6 or so.
NIce. I'm expecting the same from the zon soon. Hang in brother, this will resolve.
I do. I use a RO + DI kit with a 150GPD main membrane. The first kit that I started using several years ago was a little bit smaller, somewhere around 80 gallon per day then the second kit that I upgraded to was a 100 gallon per day unit. I now spent a few extra dollars and am on my third system that is 150 gallon per day with the deionizing filter as a final stage. I am very happy with this size and I can keep plenty of water on hand. I have a 25 gallon Blue Water drum that I keep full and aerating at all times. If I were to recommend anything it would be any a 4 - 5 stage RODI kit. There's a company called aqua gen that makes good kits and they are easily found and have really good prices online. I don't want to say the name of the website but it's that very very worldwide famous auction site.
Wow, that's what I'm looking for. It's difficult finding things I know little about. Thanks.
For TLO it's all about not having any unknowns. Even 40ppm water can have adverse affects. It's all about keeping a perfect balance of each mineral. For instance if you use spring water with an unknown ppm of something, it can throw the balance off in the long run. RO or distilled are the only real guaranteed ways to go. Rainwater also works well per the book. Not saying filtered wont work but I sure wouldn't run my first TLO cycle with it. For instance, if I had the problems that I am having with the plants now I would probably be trying to blame my filtered water. Since I'm using reverse osmosis water I know that that is not the issue I am having. I would say once someone gets growing in the TLO style down, then perhaps try a different water supply.Ive seen peopl get pretty goodresults using "filtered water." There are small units for RV's/campers and such. Theres also a smaller one called "bu's blue" that you can just screw on to the end of any standard water hose. Depends on your pregerence, quick n' cheap, or something a little more permanent and long term, but it'll cost ya some extra frogskins!
Good thought. My well has between 350 and 400 ppm so I need something beefy I think to get the ppm down low.Ive seen peopl get pretty goodresults using "filtered water." There are small units for RV's/campers and such. Theres also a smaller one called "bu's blue" that you can just screw on to the end of any standard water hose. Depends on your pregerence, quick n' cheap, or something a little more permanent and long term, but it'll cost ya some extra frogskins!
What about a 6 stage ro system with remineralisation included resulting in 38-40ppm ?
A standard RO unit should do. My dang city water is like 275 ppm and after RO is 0 ppm. you would probably just need to change the first and second stage carbon filters a little you would probably just need to change the first and second stage carbon filters a little bit more often.
