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[Chris Scorpio]

Congrats! I have been really happy with it. I Never go above 1/2 strength. And never Ph.

Are you using coco above the res or pure perlite?

You using Tap or RO water?

if Tap what is the PH and PPM of it

mine is like 7.3-7.6 and PPM is 343

 

[TheMadDabber]

You using Tap or RO water?

if Tap what is the PH and PPM of it

mine is like 7.3-7.6 and PPM is 343

I use either Distilled or filtered water from my fridge. I'm unsure of the Ph for the water that comes from the fridge but it is 170 ppm.

My feed goes as follows. I always add 150ppm cal mag (100 for seedlings. Regardless of what water I'm using)
And Then anywhere from 150 to 300 ppm of a and B (combined total).

I think I was doing it incorrectly originally I was adding equal PPM of A and B. As opposed to equal amounts. Recently I have used 3 ml cal mag 3 ml part A and 3 ml part B. You'll notice the part A contains far more dissolved solids.

So if I want to increase ppm of base nutes I will add A and B check combined ppm and adjust (obviously easier to add more than attempt to dilute).

The Ph perfect promise will correct any water with a ph between (approximately) 4.8 and 8.5. So your golden with your sink water. However your higher ppm may not be totally ideal. It will work. I like my base water (before nutes) to fall between 100 and 200 ppm of TDS.

Sorry for the long winded post....

 

[Chris Scorpio]

I use either Distilled or filtered water from my fridge. I'm unsure of the Ph for the water that comes from the fridge but it is 170 ppm.

My feed goes as follows. I always add 150ppm cal mag (100 for seedlings. Regardless of what water I'm using)
And Then anywhere from 150 to 300 ppm of a and B (combined total).

I think I was doing it incorrectly originally I was adding equal PPM of A and B. As opposed to equal amounts. Recently I have used 3 ml cal mag 3 ml part A and 3 ml part B. You'll notice the part A contains far more dissolved solids.

So if I want to increase ppm of base nutes I will add A and B check combined ppm and adjust (obviously easier to add more than attempt to dilute).

The Ph perfect promise will correct any water with a ph between (approximately) 4.8 and 8.5. So your golden with your sink water. However your higher ppm may not be totally ideal. It will work. I like my base water (before nutes) to fall between 100 and 200 ppm of TDS.

Sorry for the long winded post....

Ya my PPM water is High... Ill probobly stick with RO water and maybe try some Tap water with a few Test Dummies

Great info Dab.... really appreciate it

 

[Radogast]

Perlite + osmo+
I water with PH adjusted RO every 3 days.

All the girls are happy except for some 1-bud clones that won't reveg.


Take a look at my photo - never seem to get a lot.
Not much of a photo - she's the only one I got.

 

[Blazinjones]

Hahah golden arches! Too funny BJ

Remo is doing well for my buddy swagg he's in coco but still. I still have yet to Ph once.... . I'm noticing some N or cal mag def. On the plant with TMV so I'll bump up the cal mag some. I'm at half strength for my base nutes. And won't go any higher. Maybe even back off a tad. I think 1/2 strength should be the full strength recommended dose haha!

Yea i always thought that 2 ive yet to actually use the full recommended amount lol

 

[Blazinjones]

Ya my PPM water is High... Ill probobly stick with RO water and maybe try some Tap water with a few Test Dummies

Great info Dab.... really appreciate it

So since I use a ro water filter system to get water 4 my girls and I have a natural well so my ph from my ro water system comes out around 9.0ish so would I not be able 2 use a ph perfect type of nute so I don't have to adjust the ph any more? Like will those nutes not work right and adjust themselves to the proper levels with my well water being so high a ph level??

 

[Radogast]

So since I use a ro water filter system to get water 4 my girls and I have a natural well so my ph from my ro water system comes out around 9.0ish so would I not be able 2 use a ph perfect type of nute so I don't have to adjust the ph any more? Like will those nutes not work right and adjust themselves to the proper levels with my well water being so high a ph level??

That is high PH for an RO system.

I thought RO filters always reduced the PH, but I found this explanation online

Is The PH Of Pure Water Really Lower Than Tap Water?​

This question is answered when you understand the equilibrium relationship between CO2, HCO3, and CO3. In a closed system, the relative amount of each dune compound varies with pH. At lower pH levels, CO2 is the predominant species. HCO3 is the predominant species at mid pH levels, and CO3 is present at higher pH levels.

Since RO membranes will reject dissolved ions but not dissolved gases, the RO permeate and RO feed will contain roughly the same amount of CO2. The HCO3 and CO3, however, are often reduced by 1-2 orders of magnitude. This upsets the CO2, HCO3, CO3 equilibrium that was established in the feed. In a series of equilibrium reactions, CO2 will combine with H2O driving reactions similar to that shown below, until a new equilibrium Is established.

CO2 + H2O --> HCO3 + H+

water faucet
To summarize:

The new equilibrium will always result in a lowering of permeate pH if there is CO2 gas present in the feed water.

The pH drop is usually largest for waters with high amounts of alkalinity or HCO3.

When there is very little CO2, HCO3, or CO3, there is a very small pH drop observed in the permeate.

Therefore it is not true that reverse osmosis filters will always reduce the pH level of water to a noticeable amount. The pH difference after the RO depends on the composition of your input water source; depending on whether you have large amounts of gases such as CO2 in your local water supply.

It still doesn't sound right that your PHis that high.

 

[Blazinjones]

That is high PH for an RO system.

I thought RO filters always reduced the PH, but I found this explanation online




It still doesn't sound right that your PHis that high.

Yea idk what any of that means really lol but so far with my los setup its been working out amazingly and as for my hempy girls i had to adjust the ph altho when I was running my roots organic bottle nutes i didnt adjust the ph at first n they started to suffer so I then adjusted it wrong lol to 7.o n they kept lookn bad till i was told to do the ph to 5.5 and now they been doing great some said i didnt need to ph with my remo nutes but I've been to nervous to try it out since I dnt wana lose any of my girls lol

 

[SweetSue]

Congrats! I have been really happy with it. I Never go above 1/2 strength. And never Ph.

Are you using coco above the res or pure perlite?

This is interesting. I recently purchased some RX Green Solution nutes on eBay, and when they showed up they were the previous formula, made for professional grows in mind, and at half the concentration of the current formula. Ever since I noticed this I began wondering if I'm over feeding.

Cannabis seems to express its best potential when you can keep the plants on the edge, maybe with some controlled stress at particular times in their development. Part of me is wondering if I'm not getting the same terpene expressions I get in soil because the plants are being too pampered, too well fed.

I know that sounds crazy, but does it make sense to anyone other than me?

 

[Blazinjones]

This is interesting. I recently purchased some RX Green Solution nutes on eBay, and when they showed up they were the previous formula, made for professional grows in mind, and at half the concentration of the current formula. Ever since I noticed this I began wondering if I'm over feeding.

Cannabis seems to express its best potential when you can keep the plants on the edge, maybe with some controlled stress at particular times in their development. Part of me is wondering if I'm not getting the same terpene expressions I get in soil because the plants are being too pampered, too well fed.

I know that sounds crazy, but does it make sense to anyone other than me?

Well yea just like in veg if u want the roots to grow dry em out and stress em alil to force em to grow to search for water but if u feed em 2 often then the roots won't develop as much as if left unwaterd some times

 

[Lazarus13]

Hey hempy peeps! Another week, another update. This will be the last one in veg as ive just gotten room in my tent to get my ready-to-flower girls together. My GSC is really bushing out so i gave her undercarriage a light defol in preparation for the flip this week. She will get another touch up when she stops stretching. This is Girl Scout Cookies by Feminised Seed Co at about 5 weeks in pure perlite using AN 3 part pH perfect nutes.

I love my Perfect Sun Dwarf Star and i have added an old Mars Hydro 300 that i had to provide a little extra light.
Happy growing all!

 

[Radogast]

Hey hempy peeps! Another week, another update. This will be the last one in veg as ive just gotten room in my tent to get my ready-to-flower girls together. My GSC is really bushing out so i gave her undercarriage a light defol in preparation for the flip this week. She will get another touch up when she stops stretching. This is Girl Scout Cookies by Feminised Seed Co at about 5 weeks in pure perlite using AN 3 part pH perfect nutes.

I love my Perfect Sun Dwarf Star and i have added an old Mars Hydro 300 that i had to provide a little extra light.
Happy growing all!

She looks ready to rumble.

Happy flowering

 

[Blazinjones]

Hey hempy peeps! Another week, another update. This will be the last one in veg as ive just gotten room in my tent to get my ready-to-flower girls together. My GSC is really bushing out so i gave her undercarriage a light defol in preparation for the flip this week. She will get another touch up when she stops stretching. This is Girl Scout Cookies by Feminised Seed Co at about 5 weeks in pure perlite using AN 3 part pH perfect nutes.

I love my Perfect Sun Dwarf Star and i have added an old Mars Hydro 300 that i had to provide a little extra light.
Happy growing all!

Dam laz lookn good i have the same light two of them actually that i have in my flower tent i so wana get one of there ps cob setups and put that in my flower tent n use one of my dwarf stars for my veg area either way I love those lights ever since I got them my buds have been dense and sticky as hell

 

[Blazinjones]

ok so i uppotted my devils carnival and my strawberry cake to 3gallon hempy pots the strawberry cake is on the left n devils carnival on the right

and here was my root ball from my d.c.

so for the most part its going good but still my d.c. seems alil to yellow or does she look fine to u guys i know sweetsue said this strain tends to go alil yellow but just wondering if this is to much??

 

[MagicJim]

Devils carnival does look a little lime yellow to me. If mine I'd be feeding some Nitrogen.

I have a little deficiencies in my soil clones. Treated them recently with some 4-3-3 organic stuff I'm testing.

 

[Blazinjones]

Devils carnival does look a little lime yellow to me. If mine I'd be feeding some Nitrogen.

I have a little deficiencies in my soil clones. Treated them recently with some 4-3-3 organic stuff I'm testing.

I'm using remo nutes rite now and the only things I have for veg are micro which is 3-0-1 and then grow which is 2-3-5 and then nature's candy which has no nitrogen in it so I prolly wudnt up that but what about the micro it has 3% nitrate nitrogen maybe up that alil bit maybe sweetsue could chim in here and let me know how she looks compared to the ones she has ran

 

[TheMadDabber]

I agree bump either your micro or veg. Should be fine. Different strokes for different strains haha!

 

[Radogast]

Garden Update


A month after I decided to switch from soil to hempy, I have 2 larger (7-gallon) plants vegging in soil and 3 (7-gallon) plants flowering in soil.

I had some problems with lights and cloning during the end of the soil run - As you will see, some of those problems are still problems in perlite hempy.



Haze x Kali China - 3 weeks in soil + 1 month in Hempy

AK47 - Cloned from a reveg plant that went back into flower - 8 weeks in soil + 3 weeks in perlite

Bubba's Gift - Also cloned from a reveg plant that went back into flower - also 8 weeks in soil + 3 weeks in hempy bucket

If I need space, these two are gone. I'm trying to save their genetics, but it's hardly worth it.




Guawi #1 - 45 days since clone was planted in a 6" perlite tube

Guawi #2 - 27 days since clone was planted in a perlite bucket

Lilly Reveg (Monstercrop+reveg) - 80 days in soil + 37 days in hempy

Lilly (clone of Lilly reveg) - 1 month in soil + 1 month in hempy

Carnival (2nd generation clone) - 39 days in perlite

"Peeing" after partial draining through the hempy hole and refilling bottom of bucket with water

 

[Tead]

Guawi #1 - 45 days since clone was planted in a 6" perlite tube

6" inside diameter, 12"tall. Not that Tead would know.....


Man... 7 gallons!!! That's enormous.
Recently, I did some testing on a 24" tall 6" round tube. There was some banter about deeper pots not staying wet in the top. The banter claimed 12" was the best target. After my little impromptu testing, I feel in agreement with the banter.
So.... how tall are your 7gals?

 

[Tead]

"Peeing" after partial draining through the hempy hole and refilling bottom of bucket with water

That looks like an example of a slightly clogged hole. I try to keep them completely clear. One blocked hole incident will forever make you touchy about them. Usually I get a small void right behind the hole after a bit of time.