PK Perpetual Grow Journal 2020

[PK]

Understanding your fish tank water environment​ Nutrafin Master Test Kit Nutrafin master test kit consist of the essential liquids to understand the environment of your aquarium. From Ph, Ammonia, Nitrate, Nitrite, Calcium and Phosphate,I will be going through each of these along with KH and GH readings. Why is this Important? In order to replicate the mother nature inside your aquaponic tank. The fish will provide poop and ammonia will be added to the water. With the proper bacteria build those ammonia will break down into smaller pieces and a form of new bacteria will be produced called Nitrite. The full cycle completes once Nitrite becomes a form of Nitrate which will become safe for fish to live in.

Ammonia (N) Ammonia gets used by the plants as a form of (N) Nitrogen and it allows the plants to grow. However, Excessive ammonia levels also kills your fish or your plants. The picture on the right does not do much justice with the light shining. However, it is showing between 0.01-0.03 ppm x 100 = 300ppm This is due to the fertilizer i use for my nitrogen along with the fish poop.

Nitrite (NO2) Nitrite (NO2) – nitrifying bacteria living in the filter and aquarium convert ammonia to nitrite (NO2). A rise in nitrite usually follows an ammonia spike. Nitrite inhibits oxygen exchange to fishes' bloodstream, thereby causing them to suffocate. My readings are wrong as i've added fertilizers this week and my water tank has been changed few times this last few weeks.

Nitrate (NO3) Nitrate is a bi-product of ammonia, which is a common waste product found in fish tanks. It comes from fish waste, old food and plants in the water. Since ammonia is highly toxic to fish, the biofilter in your fish tank is designed to break it down into components that fish are more resistant to. My readings are wrong as i've added fertilizers this week and my water tank has been changed few times this last few weeks.

Iron (Fr) Iron is another form of nutrient that the plants and fish absorb. The light does not show this properly but i've given 0.01g of my dry fertilizer which is microbe mixed of iron and the essential micro needs for plants. This level is above 0.1 but below 0.25ppm. Since the graph only shows 0.01 to 0.25 i am going to take that i will be somewhere in 0.15 x 100 = 150ppm

General Hardness (GH) The GH of a water is really for the fish to ensure that there are proper minerals for their use. This works in single drops. Your first drop will make the water pink which will be the starting point. Every drop after that it will bring the pink colour to yellow. Each drop is count is what your GH is. My GH is at 3 drops

Carbonate Hardness (KH) KH measures the amount of carbonates and bicarbonates in water, which affects the buffering capacity of the water. This means that KH helps neutralize acids and prevents your pH from changing too rapidly, which is useful because sudden pH crashes can cause health issues in your fish or plants. The first drop makes the water bluish colour and every drop after that it will become yellow. I did two drops before it went to yellow.

I use a Ph pen to find out the ph level of my fish tank and a ppm reader to find out what the ppm levels are. If i find an deficiency on the plants inside the tank then i will use my master kit to find out what levels are out of ordinary.

As i show with the pictures NO2&NO3, the tank is acting up at nitrite and nitrate levels. My fluval 205 filtration was reset about a month a go due to pump problems. However, in few days the filtration should be sufficient to show proper readings.

Aquaponic fish safe plant fertilizer​

(KNO3) Potassium Nitrate​

(KH2po4) Monopotassium phosphate​

MICRO's essential trace elements​

I use the above fertilizers for my tank to keep the plants and the environments happy. If my plants inside the tank are doing okay, i take this water and fill my 5 gallon reservoirs. Depending on my weed plant stage of life i add mega crop nutr/ferti to achieve the ppm required.

 

[Rexer]

Testing aquaponic Nutrient level with Nutrafin master kit

Understanding your fish tank water environment​ Nutrafin Master Test Kit Nutrafin master test kit consist of the essential liquids to understand the environment of your aquarium. From Ph, Ammonia, Nitrate, Nitrite, Calcium and Phosphate,I will be going through each of these along with KH and GH readings. Why is this Important? In order to replicate the mother nature inside your aquaponic tank. The fish will provide poop and ammonia will be added to the water. With the proper bacteria build those ammonia will break down into smaller pieces and a form of new bacteria will be produced called Nitrite. The full cycle completes once Nitrite becomes a form of Nitrate which will become safe for fish to live in.

Ammonia (N) Ammonia gets used by the plants as a form of (N) Nitrogen and it allows the plants to grow. However, Excessive ammonia levels also kills your fish or your plants. The picture on the right does not do much justice with the light shining. However, it is showing between 0.01-0.03 ppm x 100 = 300ppm This is due to the fertilizer i use for my nitrogen along with the fish poop.

Nitrite (NO2) Nitrite (NO2) – nitrifying bacteria living in the filter and aquarium convert ammonia to nitrite (NO2). A rise in nitrite usually follows an ammonia spike. Nitrite inhibits oxygen exchange to fishes' bloodstream, thereby causing them to suffocate. My readings are wrong as i've added fertilizers this week and my water tank has been changed few times this last few weeks.

Nitrate (NO3) Nitrate is a bi-product of ammonia, which is a common waste product found in fish tanks. It comes from fish waste, old food and plants in the water. Since ammonia is highly toxic to fish, the biofilter in your fish tank is designed to break it down into components that fish are more resistant to. My readings are wrong as i've added fertilizers this week and my water tank has been changed few times this last few weeks.

Iron (Fr) Iron is another form of nutrient that the plants and fish absorb. The light does not show this properly but i've given 0.01g of my dry fertilizer which is microbe mixed of iron and the essential micro needs for plants. This level is above 0.1 but below 0.25ppm. Since the graph only shows 0.01 to 0.25 i am going to take that i will be somewhere in 0.15 x 100 = 150ppm

General Hardness (GH) The GH of a water is really for the fish to ensure that there are proper minerals for their use. This works in single drops. Your first drop will make the water pink which will be the starting point. Every drop after that it will bring the pink colour to yellow. Each drop is count is what your GH is. My GH is at 3 drops

Carbonate Hardness (KH) KH measures the amount of carbonates and bicarbonates in water, which affects the buffering capacity of the water. This means that KH helps neutralize acids and prevents your pH from changing too rapidly, which is useful because sudden pH crashes can cause health issues in your fish or plants. The first drop makes the water bluish colour and every drop after that it will become yellow. I did two drops before it went to yellow.

I use a Ph pen to find out the ph level of my fish tank and a ppm reader to find out what the ppm levels are. If i find an deficiency on the plants inside the tank then i will use my master kit to find out what levels are out of ordinary.

Aquaponic fish safe plant fertilizer​

(KNO3) Potassium Nitrate​

(KH2po4) Monopotassium phosphate​

MICRO's essential trace elements​

I use the above fertilizers for my tank to keep the plants and the environments happy. If my plants inside the tank are doing okay, i take this water and fill my 5 gallon reservoirs. Depending on my weed plant stage of life i add mega crop nutr/ferti to achieve the ppm required.

Beautiful write up PK!

 

[MrSauga]

Nicely done PK! One thing to watch is the nitrate levels in fertilizers. MC contains about 95% Nitrate and 5% ammoniacal. A high nitrate fertilizer over time will cause a rise in your substrates pH. As long as the nitrate levels in the fish soup are low you should be fine. If anything you would hope your ammoniacal levels would be higher to balance some of the high nitrate in the MC.
You want to maintain a higher nitrate level with cannabis anyhow, but there's a point where it doesn't benefit the plant and creates more issues.

 

[PK]

Nicely done PK! One thing to watch is the nitrate levels in fertilizers. MC contains about 95% Nitrate and 5% ammoniacal. A high nitrate fertilizer over time will cause a rise in your substrates pH. As long as the nitrate levels in the fish soup are low you should be fine. If anything you would hope your ammoniacal levels would be higher to balance some of the high nitrate in the MC.
You want to maintain a higher nitrate level with cannabis anyhow, but there's a point where it doesn't benefit the plant and creates more issues.

Thank you for the 100 likes Sauga ,

The levels of the tank is currently 171ppm. breaking that down i';ve got around 2ppm nitrogen and .05ppm nitrite. The liquid test makes it really hard to point what level it exactly is.

I did a water change of the reservoir and i had to add 2x1/4 tsp to get 300 ppm in the reservoir.
The two clones that are being aquaponics are the gorilla glues and i have not seen a deficiency yet. However, the leaves are getting allot more green. I won't be surprised if i get into some trouble as i am resetting the water in the fish tank.

My other 2 clones that are the mystery girl are probably getting thrown out. I don't like the strain and unfortunately i have many seeds of that, that is mixed with some other good seeds. maybe i'm just being picky and not patient enough

 

[Virgin Ground]

Is that your aquarium PK?
It's very pretty.

I had many of the same plants. I had the red tiger lotus, anubias, java fern and it looks like you have some bacopa in there as well?
What light are you running?

I'm in the process of redoing a 20 long right now. May need a new light. I usually go with Finnex but I'm open to change.

 

[PK]

Is that your aquarium PK?
It's very pretty.

I had many of the same plants. I had the red tiger lotus, anubias, java fern and it looks like you have some bacopa in there as well?
What light are you running?

I'm in the process of redoing a 20 long right now. May need a new light. I usually go with Finnex but I'm open to change.

Hey VG, that's my jungle of kipling . My LED light is a Satellite pro and i've got ammazonia soil in the background where the plants are. The stones and the wood logs breaks the soil from the sand that is in the front.

 

[PK]

@Virgin Ground make sure to drop a picture when you are done. Also let me know if have questions.

 

[Virgin Ground]

Hey VG, that's my jungle of kipling . My LED light is a Satellite pro and i've got ammazonia soil in the background where the plants are. The stones and the wood logs breaks the soil from the sand that is in the front.

Amazonia rip: Amano) is expensive stuff! It looks like it's doing a great job and I'm not surprised at all about that.
I should price how much the ADA substrates would be for a 20 long.

I think that the Sat Pro is very close to my Planted+24/7 fixture in specs.
Thanks PK.

 

[PK]

Amazonia rip: Amano) is expensive stuff! It looks like it's doing a great job and I'm not surprised at all about that.
I should price how much the ADA substrates would be for a 20 long.

I think that the Sat Pro is very close to my Planted+24/7 fixture in specs.
Thanks PK.

yes, I've seen some of Amanos work and i've got a full book with all his creations. This one was the most affordable build. lol! The fish safe soil "Ammzonia" is truely a good soil. I've had it in the tank for about a year and it still producing good nutritions for the plants. It also doesn't break down quickly which i think is why the soil has been good for a year. Except for the vern and anubias everything else is in soil.

 

[PK]

Lights off on last Mystery Girl Here is the last plant that i just turned the light off on. The other two has been cut a week away from each other. Why? Since i have a lot of these seeds, i wanted to find out which methods would give this girls the best chance for me to enjoy them. Here are the pictures of trichomes for this final plant. Mystery 2nd clone The 1st clone was cut about two week a go and it has not been trimmed but just hanged inside a dark room. This is one of the buds from bottom of the plant that was dried and weighed 2.05g. not sure how much the whole plant is as the branch are just drying up. Not much of a smell. not much trichomes and it smoked very smooth. It does give me a bit of tickle but i think since my tolerance is high that this did not do much justice. The 2nd Mystery clone was trimmed and branches were cut and hanged inside of a box that sits inside the fridge. It has been in there for about a week and i open it everyday and just turn the leaves around and see how it is. I don't how she smokes or how much weight she got. I will be doing a finial smoke report in about a month and a full weight count to find out how i did.

 

[PK]

Hydro Gorilla Update | Nov 15

GG 1 The reservoir water was changed two days ago and it the equipment was washed off for any thing that was stock to it. today things are bad dirty again? The ph wont go down and although the pen is calibrated and gives me reading on the fish tank. It does not give me proper reading on the reservoir water. No matter how much ph down i put in there it just sits at 6.98 GG2 The 2nd dwc res is allot cleaner and both has gotten the same things that the 1st res received. Hygrozyme 1.5ml MC 2x 1/4 tsp to achieve a 300 ppm Another problem i've noticed is that the roots has been damaged on the clone (GG 1). I take that everytime i grab that lid and move it to adjust the ph that i damage the roots since the clay pebbles move when the lid is picked up. I'm not sure what to do except for moving these into coco and move them into the tent

 

[PK]

@Pennywise is that normal?

 

[Jack420]

They don’t look horrible brotha I’ll give it a few days before taking them out if that is what ur goin to do

 

[Jack420]

Who knows they could take off

 

[Pennywise]

My guess is Bacteria is causing the ph issue. Read up as much as you can on aeroponics.

 

[Jack420]

Pdub could be def right learned 95 percent of what I know from him

 

[PK]

My guess is Bacteria is causing the ph issue. Read up as much as you can on aeroponics.

i thought maybe the temps of the water went up and it became like that which looks like bacteria, but the temps has been at around 70f. i'm trying to find about aeroponics in the completed journals.

 

[PK]

Pdub could be def right learned 95 percent of what I know from him

is he a member? cuz that user doesn't seem to exist.

 

[Jack420]

I’m sure you will get this tuned just right brother

 

[Jack420]

is he a member? cuz that user doesn't seem to exist.

Meant pennywise lol since he is here I def know you will get it worked out