Oldsmokey Grows Blue Cheese & Blueberry With Promix

[Dankman_420]

I'm thinking about getting a bubble bucket going this winter when I will have clones available. Just to tinker with. I've never gone hydro except for my DWC cloner I used to use

 

[StRoostifer]

How much trouble is it keeping a mother or two going in water? Been thinking more about this since I have a small cloner now.

 

[StRoostifer]

@oldsmokey you are the dude I’ll be coming to for pointers when it comes time for me to dabble in hydro.

 

[oldsmokey]

I will help if I can

 

[InTheShed]

The GH flora series contains nitrate and ammonium salts for N. If the straight nitrate is giving you problems with the pH rising perhaps try GH which caused my pH to drop instead of increasing

There are a few with a good blend, Dynagrow comes to mind. Ideally the nutes would come dry though. At least that's my quest.

 

[Momma's Kitchen]

You can't use mega crop and Hydro?

 

[InTheShed]

Sure you can! Lots of folks here are using it. It seems to take a bit more pH down to keep it in check, but monitoring pH is just part of growing in hydro.

 

[oldsmokey]

Wouldn't cost much to set up a 4 bucket system. The most expense would be mag drive pump good air pump and a ec meter.

 

[The Phantom]

My 80 gallon rdwc setup at 360 grams (4.5 gr/gal) of MC, cal/mag and silica takes about 100ml of pH down to bring it to 5.7. That's with a tap water pH of 7.2-7.4. I usually will have a pH drift of 0.4 max in 12-16 hours, it takes maybe 10-20ml of pH down to bring it back into check. That's all I have to do for the week as far as pHing. I do check pH and EC in the morning and will mix anywhere from 5-15 gallons of nutrients to top off with over the course of the week.

 

[oldsmokey]

Thanks Phantom I am leaning towards hydro now but have a bit of time to decide.

 

[The Phantom]

I'm really liking this silica supplement I started using, very little pH drift, if any from it. It is my first silica supplement so the only think I have to compare it to is others comments on having wild pH drift using some silica supplements or the cost of some of them. It's called Silica Gold by TPS. MultiVortex turned me onto their organic cal/mag that's 0-0-0 and I found they also had a silica supplement.

 

[InTheShed]

There's a coincidence! I just found the 0-0-0 TPS cal/mag product yesterday when I thought I might want to add it to my custom mix.

 

[oldsmokey]

I emailed them not to Long ago they have no Canadian retailers but we're willing to ship just not really worth it for some calmag.

 

[multiVortex]

There's a coincidence! I just found the 0-0-0 TPS cal/mag product yesterday when I thought I might want to add it to my custom mix.

Welcome to the club!

It's good stuff. Been using it for a while.

 

[oldsmokey]

Good evening everyone
Here is a video of the girls I think I had the lights to bright for filming hope you can make it out.

Have a great weekend
Grow On Stay Medicated

 

[MrSauga]

Lighting wasn't too bad. I was able to make things out fine. Nice job.

 

[InTheShed]

Vid was fine! Was the pH showing the same rise in all the pots when you tested?

 

[oldsmokey]

Vid was fine! Was the pH showing the same rise in all the pots when you tested?

Yes the pH was 6.6 in three and 6.5 in the other one.

 

[InTheShed]

I hope you get a hold of some new nitrogen to see if you can boost the harvest.

 

[oldsmokey]

I am looking again to day a couple garden centers I can check. Way on the other side of town.