Recent content by scottonfire

I think it's inevitable. We flipped to late and my buddy is sucking on keeping all the numbers dialed in. SO what now? Got Girl scout cookies in DWC and looking to be bumping up against air cooled 1000 watt HPS lights. Got about 6 more inches to go.

okay great, he'll be happy. My worry was the nutes would bond together, but this would reduce the ppm's not increase it, correct?

ppm's were 650 when they should've been 550 in a 40 gallon reservoir. Should I have him empty and redo the whole thing or can it be salvaged by diluting? My concern is he didn't take time to put nutrients in. He added EACH to a half gallon of RO water and then dumped it in.

I've got a 10x10 tent with four 8" XXXL air cooled lights. I have two rows of two lights connected to ducting. Outside the tent, the exhaust ducting goes another 10 feet to the window of the garage. On the other side, the intake ducting goes another 3 feet outside the tent to the window of the...

I've got silica blast from botanicare (KSi) and not sure what dosage to foliar feed at. 2.5ml/gal is what I was thinking, but then it seems that's to add to the epicenter. So in a 100 gal system 250ml, but again, I'm looking to foliar spray to reduce heat stress and not sure if I'm only adding...

So didn't know the UC feeding schedule assumes you're doing a nute changeout every week (yeah freaking right!) So we're gonna drop the ppm's down to 350 (only been 425 for a day). I don't know if the humidity is too high or low tbh. I'm keeping the RH 5% higher than UC chart so week 3 of Veg I...

Hi Jack, thx for taking an interest. I'll check out silica foliar spray tomorr at hydro store. We've steadily been moving air cooled light (8" XXXL) down from 40" from top of leaves and now we're at 27". We only move when plants stop showing signs of taco leaves. But even today earlier air temp...

One thing I would note, my ppm's were high b/c I needed to recalibrate my HM meter. I thought it was only for a pH meter, but when we did the ppm's were actually 220 so it did make a difference in the reading.

Leaves exhibited "taco" leaves which is a sign of heat stress that we got when we went to 1000 watts (metal halide). We found when we reduced tent heat from 80 to 75 it helped a lot, BUT leaves are drooping, stems are high so we figured over watering, but water level is fine - 1/2" below bottom...

I guess my q' about understanding ppm's is, if the ppm's are too high (260) will it drop the next day and continue to drop?

So week 1, after feeding 1st time, was 100ppm's (500 scale), then I effed up the pH down/up on day 4 and by the time pH was balanced ppm's went up to 130. They pretty much stayed at that till today (beginning of week 2). Well, I guess technically the ppm's were rising since when they drank, the...

not sure. I thought it was for cloning, but I guess that's from the mother, not the clone so ?? They claim to use a predator bug for mites so maybe that?

GSC in day 5 of Veg. Numbers are pretty dialed in now, but had a few F ups. Added 50ml of GH pH DOWN since the a-holes recommend 1-2ml/gal and I have a 100 gal system. Dropped the pH from 7 to 4. AHHHHHH. So I ended up adding 45ml of pH up to get back to 6.4, but took 1.5 hrs. when they shoulda...

I'm trying to figure out how to mix my top-off Rez for week 2. System is 100 Gallons. I plan to only mix my next week nutes in 20 gallons in the top-off reservoir (i'm guessing that's the max they'd drink at week 2). So am I calculating the nute schedule based on 100+20=120 gallons? So for...

talked to a dude at eco plus. It is a broken temp sensor so I bought an external temp controller with a sensor so it turns on chiller automatically from it. $35 and will be here tomorr. Sweet!