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Yep I haven't used caps biowar in a while, However I just ordered a couple kilos today for this run. I also been reading up on some black label root enhancer. Going to give that stuff a try..
Dimmed all the lights and Got the temps and humidity up to 80 80 and things and starting to perk up..
So when the lights first come on the WIFI's are very perky and the leaf posture is decent, after a few hours on they start to droop more and more till lights go out. Im thinking the plant is telling me that there is 2 much light.. Correct??
Thanks for all the advise and encouragement. Working as a one man show, I have no one over my shoulder to tell me not to water an over watered plant, and why the hell are you turning up the lights on a plant with no root system.. Ill be spending more time doing some late night reading. Get my head back in the game,,,
You're just jealous that the voice in my head sounds like Barry White.We all got that annoying voice in our head that never leaves us the heck alone lol
But I think I need to rinse it thoroughly with a low phed water till I get a runoff in the 5-6 range. Their website says "triple washed and buffered, Ready to use" Maybe not.
My first run I went from a 4 inch rockwool cube, with a good size plant and great root system. Straight into the GS-3 mix in a 5 gallon plastic container. I think I watered it a bunch the first day to get the runoff to run clear and a ph in range. I did not do that this time.
I used a about 5 gallons each pot (aprox 3 gallons of medium) the runoff is still about 6.2. Seems there is a ton of alkaline buffer in the mix.
I dont know, maybe a ph runoff of 6.6 is where it should be and I just made shit worse.. lol
I was looking for the easiest mix to use because my warehouse does not have running water, and to waste all that trucked in water to wash coco to get the PH in hydroponic range is a pain. If I can manage to salvage a decent grow out of all this, I might look into just re using the coco next time.
Should I go ahead and drench the plants today with 5.0 phed water untill I get the Ph runoff below 6.0 and hope for the best? Or will doing that overwater the unestablished root system and make things worse?
As they are they are growing slow and not doing much anyways.
I went ahead and flushed all the plants out with a 400 ppm ph 4.0 solution. I ran as much as I could with the amount of time and water I had. I was able to get the run off down from 7.2 to 6.2 on most of the plants. While I didnt have any distilled water to do a proper slury test but when I mix in the medium with a 4.0 ph'ed solution it shoots up to 7.0.
I got a response from the tech support at growstone.
Thanks for contacting me with your questions.
GS3 coco mix is ready to use.
The initial pH tends to be a bit higher than the water pH for a bit. That happens while the calcium carbonates from Growstonrs are being leached out into solution and drained away. Later pH will stabilize to about the same pH of the nutrient solution.
Regarding the dark color leaching out that is natural from any product containing coco coir no matter how many times it has been washed before drying and compressed in bales. Washed coco means it has been rinsed with fresh water to remove soluble salts like sodium, which are not adequate for plant growing.
The buffered coco refers to a process of spraying or soaking the washed coco with Calcium nitrate to displace and get rid of non-soluble sodium and potassium attached to the coco exchange complex. It does not relate to a pH buffer but to saturating the coco exchange complex with Calcium so to avoid calcium lockup when growers fertilize with Calcium.
Let me know if that GS3 drainage pH stabilizes at the value you want.
Best,
Paula Costa, PhD
Growstone, Inc.
R&D Director
This makes sense. As to when you put a bag of growstones in a bathtub with a cup of ph down it still leaches of tons of alkaline. So looks like the GS-3 needs the same prewash treatment as the growstones to get the calcium carbonate out of the medium to get a slury ph in the proper hydroponic range.
nutri field 70/30 homie. good right out of the bag.
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