1) Tap has Chloramine. Bubbling alone leaves Chloramine intact. Chloramine kills your beneficials. BAD. Easiest and best way is add simple Vitamin C powder, which breaks Chloramine down to Chlorine, which bubbles out in 24hrs. CHEAP!
ALSO it keeps all those minerals intact, unlike RO!
Vitamin C that shit! 1000mg turns a 55g drum into chlorine water instantly!
2) your pH with Nectar should be 6.2-6.8 .... they say so on the chart. Its a Calcium based line. higher pH than usual = best
3) Oregons Only (
N4tG company) makes coco prewashed, mixed, has myco, has perlite. Its called Franks Mix #4. I use it, no amendments.
Coco is perfect for
N4tG. Shitty salty brick coco sucks. Get good stuff in bags, washed, charged, fluffed up, like a lightweight soil.
4) Fuck General Hydro. They're a Monsanto company. Use
Veg+Bloom for an inexpensive, low EC/PPM base. That's my current experiment, and all are happy.
I also do full line Advanced
N4tG, including Kraken, 1x a week in small pot cloth (1g) coco and they've exploded. =)
Hope this helps.