JadedMarxist
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hello.
as i always grew in soil (long ago), i always used tap water.
This latest grow Im trying dwc as in theory it seems so simple!
Now using tap water, my water tested before any additives at a pH of near 7 (good right?)
My tds is at 750ppm before i add anything, after adding the nutrient solution mixed at .5ml per liter (quarter strength using the optimum hydroponixs 2 part grow nutes) my ppm are at between 850 and 900
My girls started as clones. I got them at @ 2 weeks after being clipped in potting soil i gently washed off to put into the bucket. Been in dwc now for 5 days and roots are starting to pop out of basket and touch water, looking good leaves never even drooped at all. the only water they got since being put in dwc is from the bubbles popping under the basket.
In my head im thinking too much gonna burn my girls at 900ppm. They seem perfectly fine thank the ganja gods.
So my question is when im to go full strength nutes my ppms are gonna be upwards of 1500. Will that be ok? Seems like thats super high ppms.
Also i went and checked out my towns water tests and its telling me that my water should test around 150ppm with 100ppm of that sodium hypochlorite.
As i read thru posts seems no one has water even close to my numbers.
Now I dont know whos advise to follow as the numbers are so far apart. the ec tds temp probe i bought from lightbrite hydro store 6 days ago was calibrated by the guy at store with 1340 solution, of course they were out of any of the calibrating solution to sell me.
What could i chevck the calibration with?
Even the temps reading with the probe is different from the thermometer in the tent. im basically blind as i cant trust any of my measuring equipment.
including my pH test kit. i bought a ph test probe, a liquid pH test kit by root farms and litmus paper kinda test strips and they all read differebnt pH reading from the same res.
Im liking the thought of dwc but am thinking im gonna transplant the girls back to soil or just start over in soil and walk away from the money ive spent on this venture.
Any advise is greatly appreciated
heree are my pHnumbers with the 3 tests on one of my buckets probe =6, liquid =4 pool strips =5 pool strips also tell me free chlorine is at almost 0
sorry for the terrible post its 2am and this is keeping me up at night literally
as i always grew in soil (long ago), i always used tap water.
This latest grow Im trying dwc as in theory it seems so simple!
Now using tap water, my water tested before any additives at a pH of near 7 (good right?)
My tds is at 750ppm before i add anything, after adding the nutrient solution mixed at .5ml per liter (quarter strength using the optimum hydroponixs 2 part grow nutes) my ppm are at between 850 and 900
My girls started as clones. I got them at @ 2 weeks after being clipped in potting soil i gently washed off to put into the bucket. Been in dwc now for 5 days and roots are starting to pop out of basket and touch water, looking good leaves never even drooped at all. the only water they got since being put in dwc is from the bubbles popping under the basket.
In my head im thinking too much gonna burn my girls at 900ppm. They seem perfectly fine thank the ganja gods.
So my question is when im to go full strength nutes my ppms are gonna be upwards of 1500. Will that be ok? Seems like thats super high ppms.
Also i went and checked out my towns water tests and its telling me that my water should test around 150ppm with 100ppm of that sodium hypochlorite.
As i read thru posts seems no one has water even close to my numbers.
Now I dont know whos advise to follow as the numbers are so far apart. the ec tds temp probe i bought from lightbrite hydro store 6 days ago was calibrated by the guy at store with 1340 solution, of course they were out of any of the calibrating solution to sell me.
What could i chevck the calibration with?
Even the temps reading with the probe is different from the thermometer in the tent. im basically blind as i cant trust any of my measuring equipment.
including my pH test kit. i bought a ph test probe, a liquid pH test kit by root farms and litmus paper kinda test strips and they all read differebnt pH reading from the same res.
Im liking the thought of dwc but am thinking im gonna transplant the girls back to soil or just start over in soil and walk away from the money ive spent on this venture.
Any advise is greatly appreciated
heree are my pHnumbers with the 3 tests on one of my buckets probe =6, liquid =4 pool strips =5 pool strips also tell me free chlorine is at almost 0
sorry for the terrible post its 2am and this is keeping me up at night literally
