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Skybound
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You don't ever have to worry about jacking my thread that I rarely use myself to shoot whatever shit you want, literally, any and every topic is welcomed here. If the mods won't pull it down, I won't take offense.
I grow 100% hydro, so all they get is what I give, and I've been doing a LOT of reading about that for about the last few months and I've also learned a fuck ton. I am completely done buying into brands of nutes and am pretty stocked up on salts to last me the rest of my life, literally.
With salts and a calculator (Hydro Buddy), I pinpoint each element in whatever PPM I choose right down to 0.05 PPM of Molybdenum, and all other trace elements. The micro ratios never change, but I do change the NPK ratios depending on stage of growth in her photoperiod. I've already found that certain strains like more P than others, more N than others and even slightly more K than others. Calcium and Magnesium seems to be fine if left alone, sulfur I always want high, silica I keep steady as well. Here's generally what my entire line looks like;
This seems to be about as good as it gets, with each new strain only wanting a slightly different diet than this. I'm still on the fense with Pineapple Chunk because I've been changing a few different products, but tomorrow, when my chelated metals arrive, I will mix up a chelated micro mix and finally update my nute line, then shortly afterwards I will be able to rule out any micro nutrient disorders and nail down my suspicion of K deficiency that I believe I am seeing on my PCs. Right now I have 2 PCs blooming, another Triple Cheese, then it'll be 2 more PCs again. When I get to the second set of PCs, I will have my regimen perfected and will be able to identify any deficiencies or toxicities with great certainty and be able to adjust the feed accordingly as I see fit. So for instance if I want to raise K from 150ppm to say 155ppm, or 158.7 or whatever arbitrary number I desire, I can. This would be especially helpful when dealing with the common calcium defs w/o also affecting Mg in the process. The same goes for PK as it's easy to give too much P, where as K is a lot more forgiving.
If I lived on some land, I would definitely be this nuts with soil compositions, but I'm not that fortunate and live in the city, so need to keep things condensed, or small in scale within reason. It would be one thing if I were into gardening veggies, then I could maybe justify having various compost heaps, but that would not work well in my lifestyle at this time.
I used to use 4 foot 4 bulb T5 in veg, but because I only have a 2x4 closet for veg, that T5 fixture was getting way too hot with the door closed, and when plants get bigger than a foot & a half tall, they start stinking and an opened door would cancel the filtration for that room. I now use a 65 watt quantum panel, and also have 2 CFLs hanging from a V and an extension cord next to that to add in some 6500k light. I remember the rapid growth of that 6500k lighting, and never once had problems in veg under that color temp. I'm surprised that I can't find any QBs in 6500k, or I'd buy a couple. I'm not really liking this 4000k QB too much, but the internodes do tighten up when they get past mid veg and into late veg. It's just early veg, or anything less than about a foot that grows super slow.
Also in this order of the chelates, I also got a Fulvic-Humic (FH) dry mix that I will work into the the feed that will definitely stimulate growth. I alos had a FH mix that has kelp in it, but that shit stinks after a while if mixed into a concentrate which is what I do, so I stopped using it and noticed growth vigor slowed substantially. Using that mix also made PH stability an issue. I hope the FH only mix doesn't bring that instability back because right now w/o that FH mix, my PH is super stable throughout the week.
Woody, and other Organic growers, you guys should check out "Kelp4Less" based out of Utah. They have every organic additive/supplement you may ever want save for Malted Barley. They got a very wide selection of mostly organic stuff. That's where I got my FH mix.
I've never been a cig smoker thank God. You'll get past it