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Now correct me if I'm wrong but I could've sworn I read somewhere that it is ideal to leave a gap of air within your reservoir as opposed to having it sit in water completely. I heard that it may be prone to adverse effects if you just have it sit in just water with no gap for air.
I've been looking into it since I read your post and it seems to as devicive as changing out your solution consistently. It's much the same as the situation we find ourselves in currently.
Everyone screaming the sky will fall if you don't do what we say. Then they're are the few who fight the tide and find the sky stayed right where it was.
Yeah like you said, when the water levels aren't going down, it means your ppms are too high, but unfortunately I don't agree with swapping nutes that much. Plants adapt to their surroundings and if you're just reaping them of fluids they're used to for a week, then you're not only losing out on money from nutes, you're losing time and energy and taking away it's happy environment. When my ppms drop down to 250 from 350 in bloom, I add nutes depending on what the plant shows me it needs. If the plant is healthy, I'll just add plain water until I see some sort of discoloration, if the ppms are still not going down after that, just plain water flush. Like if you're gonna trash a bucket of perfectly good nutes that had a great Ppm but the plant just wasn't thirsty for it I think that's stupid, huge waste of money, growing has made me a true believer in "less is more"I change my nutes depending on how fast my plants are drinking the water. Every 2 weeks if they're drinking it up fast. I also grow in 5 gallon bucks with no res so I have no buffer besides what's in the bucket. Sometimes a plant in mid to late flower will decide to drink 2+ gallons a day even after I've upped the nutes so rather than spend hours dialing in crap I just switch it out quick with a hose and a pump after it does that enough times. Old water out, new water in, done.
I also will change out nutes if a plant isn't drinking it's water at all which generally means it's a bit rich and needs reduced a touch to not risk burning anything but that's pretty rare for me to do.
I will mention that I have gone 2+ months in veg and half of a 9 week flowering without changing nutes. I also run calcium hypochlorite to kill off anything bad though so I don't have problems with bacteria or the like. I also don't PH unless I am planning on running nutes in a bucket longer than a couple weeks. My nute recipe scales pretty effectively as I go and I'm used to it and they're cheap so I find it pretty useless unless something starts going mysteriously wrong.
I change my nutes depending on how fast my plants are drinking the water. Every 2 weeks if they're drinking it up fast. I also grow in 5 gallon bucks with no res so I have no buffer besides what's in the bucket. Sometimes a plant in mid to late flower will decide to drink 2+ gallons a day even after I've upped the nutes so rather than spend hours dialing in crap I just switch it out quick with a hose and a pump after it does that enough times. Old water out, new water in, done.
I also will change out nutes if a plant isn't drinking it's water at all which generally means it's a bit rich and needs reduced a touch to not risk burning anything but that's pretty rare for me to do.
I will mention that I have gone 2+ months in veg and half of a 9 week flowering without changing nutes. I also run calcium hypochlorite to kill off anything bad though so I don't have problems with bacteria or the like. I also don't PH unless I am planning on running nutes in a bucket longer than a couple weeks. My nute recipe scales pretty effectively as I go and I'm used to it and they're cheap so I find it pretty useless unless something starts going mysteriously wrong.
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