growguro420
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Re: Nutes - What To Use & How To Use Them - Tutorial
I am using flower power fertilizer for my vegetative nutes I'm unsure of the NPK ratio at the moment but I know they are the correct ones for vegetative plants. My plant is 44 days since germinated and 40 days old since the seedling sprouted. I use distilled water so it has a neutral PH my soil ph sits at about 6.2 and my average temps are 24-27, 27 being when it is very hot outside
I am using flower power fertilizer for my vegetative nutes I'm unsure of the NPK ratio at the moment but I know they are the correct ones for vegetative plants. My plant is 44 days since germinated and 40 days old since the seedling sprouted. I use distilled water so it has a neutral PH my soil ph sits at about 6.2 and my average temps are 24-27, 27 being when it is very hot outside
), it's relatively easy to change the solution. People talk about soil grows (vs. hydroponic in general and, specifically, DWC) and how the soil provides a buffer - and this is true. But this can also mean that, by the time there is visual evidence of a plant issue, that the balance of things in the medium has gone wonky. Then the grower wastes (okay, uses) a lot of water on a 3x flush of the medium. And that's step one, lol. OtOH, a grower can kill a plant much quicker in DWC than in soil. Accidentally add WAY TOO #%^&ING MUCH SILICON (don't ask :rolleyes3 ) to one's reservoir one evening, return to the grow room the next afternoon to find almost every leaf on the floor... Stupid veg-head moves like that. But, in general, DWC can be great for learning this stuff because you see results to changes much faster and usually can rectify mistakes quickly. And, assuming that you've got sufficient levels of dissolved oxygen (MAD amounts of DO should always be the DWC grower's first priority), I believe that a plant can endure higher temperatures than in soil; given the container sizes that we work with, and the root mass sizes, the act of transpiration appears to be easier. This can also mean that the seven gallons of water you dumped into that very large plant's reservoir before you went to work are nowhere to be found when you return home that evening because the plant took it up and transpired that much via the stoma in its leaves (natural cooling mechanism) in order to stay healthy on that unexpectedly hot day. Water consumption rates can be surprising (and that's from someone who knows an acre of corn can transpire 3,000 to 4,000 gallons of water per day and that a single large oak tree can transpire as much as 40,000 gallons per year).
