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Clear is good but give em a rinse if you can. It’s beneficial bacteria but at the same time it can slightly hinder uptake and o2 consumption…. Nothing to worry about but if we are splitting atoms then a quick rinse is ideal.
Agree with aqua, at day 21 of flip is where ill do my second defoliation and read alot saying at the end of streach
Or if sterile you need to add your h2o2 or other product more often
Looking great man
Go by intensity… you probably want to start pushing harder now. Say around 700 ppfd and see how they respond. If after a few days things are looking good you can bump it up more but if you hit 700 im thinking they will grow right into the 800-900 range and thats perfect. 600-900 for flower.
Your fine.
You should be fine man.
If there's one thing I don't want.... it's seeds
So I quit using the Agsil during flower because it is adding extra potassium that was burning my plants. I just use PH UP instead during flower and that seems to be working fine.
Haven't touched the res yet so we're good. You just used the PH UP like the agsil? Just add it first and then bring it back down? That was my plan.
I believe that's just water droplets collecting on something slimey and hopefully not nefarious. Roots look good, though, eh? That lid's getting heavy. Maybe this plant is so potent that even the lid is growing trichomes
No, do not treat the PH Up like agsil, you want as little of that stuff in there as possible.
Much of what I have been doing in the past was wrong and so it's almost like I am relearning everything.
You say 6.1 because once your nutes are added, it gets you close to 5.8?No, do not treat the PH Up like agsil, you want as little of that stuff in there as possible.
After I fill the res, I bring the water to 6.1 and then start adding stuff in the proper order. My RO water is about 6.8 so I adjust that down to get started, then when I am finished, I do a final adjustment to target 5.8, add the Hydroguard last and go from there watching it to see how it's behaving.
It usually trends down for a few days until it stabilizes. Don't quote me on any of this though
Yup. If I remember right, the nutes always bring it down a bit.
What do you mean by "good and set"?
Just condensation droplets imo.
I'd say mostly done with stretching and shifting energy to full flower. Not a scientific term by any means but I think the advice at the time was to drop the silica 2-3 weeks after light change.
those danglers are precursor for the fuzzy trichs you gonna have at harvest.
Looks like it could be mycelium. Need much better / magnified pics to tell.
Whatever it is... it looks cool
So right now there's 40ppm of UP in there listed as potassium carbonate. It drifted down to 5.8 overnight and I expect it to drop a little more. At now I know I can comfortably add roughly another 60ppmm if necessary. Bit by bit of course. I'll probably do another res change in a couple weeks anyway.
I have something going on in the root zone. That's for sure. Gonna keep a close eye on those interesting danglers that showed up yesterday.Hey Grump, have not been around as much as I would like lately, but I'm really impressed with what you have so far. I see a very nice harvest in your future. Lots of bud sites spread out nicely.
Since this is your first real grow with this system, I would recommend not pushing it. You could probably get more bud with more photons, but that introduces other things to consider. If you push them, you have to have things dialed in (which you do) but it will change the environmental and water requirements, and I vote keep it on the fairway this time. Experience is the best teacher.
Silica by itself is something that will not improve bud structure. Also, the potassium it adds may push you off the fairway in terms of nute % in the res. So I agree, you are in the timeframe to back that down.
I'm pretty sure you are using GH PH up. This is what is in that:
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The carbonate is what is the active thing here. But as the carbonate is used to buffer PH, you are left with Potassium. Plant ready potassium. So that is a factor as well.
If you have to add lots of PH up to keep things stable, it can impact nutrient ratios. The problem with using GH Flower is the ratio of P to K you can add (or remove) is fixed. It comes out of the same bottle.
So this is a warning that if you need to constantly add PH up in excessive amounts, you have something going on in the root zone, and you will need to dump your res weekly to keep your ratios in the right range. Hope that makes sense.
Anyhow, you are doing great and should be proud of yourself. Shout out to all the pros that contributed I think you are getting great advice. It is obviously working.
It's on standby. I'm wanting to trim the lower net before adding the second. Soon though. Some have said 2 weeks in and some said 3. I'll be trimming it up this week sometime, though, either way.
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Guy was playing tennis, sat down on a bench to take a break
Where is the rim shot button ??????
