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Seedsman northern lights, need advice

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Seedsman northern lights, need advice

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Growrx said:
Ok so would you recommend me going full nutes, have yet to go above half nutes EVER.
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No stay at around 600ppm.

What are you using to control alkalinity and createa stable PH? Using RO you have 0 and most cal mag does not add alkalinity so I would assume you have a large PH swing daily. Like going from 5.6 to 6.0 in a day.
 
#25
Aqua Man said:
No stay at around 600ppm.

What are you using to control alkalinity and createa stable PH? Using RO you have 0 and most cal mag does not add alkalinity so I would assume you have a large PH swing daily. Like going from 5.6 to 6.0 in a day.
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Ph seems to be pretty stable, I usually have to bring it up with GH PH up and that does the trick for a few days until the water level starts falling. After adding nutes it’s at around 4.5 ish then I ph’ed to 6.3
 
#26
Growrx said:
Ph seems to be pretty stable, I usually have to bring it up with GH PH up and that does the trick for a few days until the water level starts falling.
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Sounds about right... the fact you need to use PH up tells me alkalinity is to low. In the future potassium silicate is a great addition not only for alkalinity and PH stability but silica is a huge benefit to the plants and the bump in potassium is also nice.
 
#29
Aqua Man said:
Sounds about right... the fact you need to use PH up tells me alkalinity is to low. In the future potassium silicate is a great addition not only for alkalinity and PH stability but silica is a huge benefit to the plants and the bump in potassium is also nice.
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I figured I couldn’t be doing this completely wrong but this is only my second grow.. but yes next grow I plan to add in silica blast during the early days of veg. As far as bloom boosters, should I throw in Hydroplex alongside my Base nutes this run if I start to see signs of deficiency’s? Or just bump the strength from half?
 
#31
Growrx said:
I figured I couldn’t be doing this completely wrong but this is only my second grow.. but yes next grow I plan to add in silica blast during the early days of veg. As far as bloom boosters, should I throw in Hydroplex alongside my Base nutes this run if I start to see signs of deficiency’s? Or just bump the strength from half?
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Only thing you might want to add is some epsom salts. I find cal mag usually about a 5 to 1 ratio of calcium to magnesium and I like aboit 2:1. Late bloom 2g per gal for the added sulfur to help bring out the terps. Start to finish 1g per gal
 
#32
I was just turned on to "massive" by green planet by @Dirtbag and after a lot of research im giving it a go. Not heard one bad thing about it. It also contains natural PGR. So if I was to change anything I would go with your grow nutes and sub massive instead of your bloom
 
#33
Aqua Man said:
I was just turned on to "massive" by green planet by @Dirtbag and after a lot of research im giving it a go. Not heard one bad thing about it. It also contains natural PGR. So if I was to change anything I would go with your grow nutes and sub massive instead of your bloom
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Just added it to my cart will try it on my next grow to compare alongside some silica blast from botanicare, but going to opt to doing half grow half bloom nutes for this plant and post back. Res change is due
 
#34
Growrx said:
Just added it to my cart will try it on my next grow to compare alongside some silica blast from botanicare, but going to opt to doing half grow half bloom nutes for this plant and post back. Res change is due
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Sounds like a plan.
 
#35
I’m assuming she’s done stretching and is just budding now. Front of canopy
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#37
it’s been 9 days since the last water change, a little over due.

10/21 Seedsman Northern lights
20ml Botanicare PBP grow
20ml Botanicare PBP bloom
9ml Botanicare Cal Mag
6ml Botanicare Hydroguard
6ml Sensizyme
PH- 6.2
PPM- 775
3CFD59C5 A769 400A B2CF 73D8FED00B37


Added cal mag to the water first to get a read and it got me to 165ppm from 0. Let’s see how she does with the 50/50 veg bloom nutes.
 
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