Guys please
JACKS HYDROPONIC with added
CALCIUM NITRATE. Its dirt cheap!!!!!!!!!! Ive talked about this at great length on a couple grow threads....its a cannabis specific nutes........why are you all mixing up crap, 22 part mixing charts, all of these additives, wasting your money on
BULLSHIT NUTES without even understanding the ppm of what you are feeding your plants relative to the ppm that your plants actually want and need to best utilize specific elements. Please, if you dont know what the exact ppm breakdown is of what in the nutes that you are feeding your plants, then what the hell are you doing? Its called flying blind and Im sure many indoor growers are experienced with this and simply dont care because "bro I get results". Indoor hydro is about understanding a plants most minute details and controling the environment in order to make adjustments and maximizing the results. Anything short of that is a waste of resourses of which time is a big one.
Hydro affords you the luxery of understanding exactly where you are at, at all times with your nutes, specifically in the root zone. What more could one ask for in order to achieve the best results...great yield and great potency with great taste and a clean burn to a white ash........the roots should be your focus.
Whats your N to P to K ratio? You guys thinking about that? How does this relate to your Mg and Ca? What is the difference in these ratios between flower and veg. What does Sulphur as a an element contribute to the final results of growing cannabis?
THE FIRST RULE for Hydro....
1)Indoor Hydro = a sterile grow environment so no organics needed.................ok? Thats a good start. You must embrace this idea.
In a hydro setting im using DUTCH MASTER ZONE at the rate of 1ml per gallon in the reso. This keeps the water nice and clean.......and yes for starting out a simple 4 by 4 white botty flood table over a 50 gallon black active aqua reso (not 40 gallon the black 50 gallon) from hydrofarm with a 400 gph pump is your best best. I like 9 plants per light in DIRT BAGS, similer to
smart pots , but cheaper with hydroton work very well. You will only need to flood twice a day cycle as the dirt bags retain a great amount of moisture.
I dont want to rant too much here so I might start a thread in the hydro section.....
Anyway my real point is use Jacks Hydroponic, start with a simple tray flood and drain, try to grow drain to waste, if not frequent changes at least once a week reso changes and grow weed that tastes amazing in hydro.
Also will someone here please post the exact elemental ppm breakdown of their flower formula for shits and giggles?
This is a 2.8-1-4.17 ratio of N-P-K...... I run this throughout flower for a base line nute profile of aprox.... all done with Jacks and Calcium Nitrate....
N...113
P.....41
K....171
Ca...90
Mg...50
S.....65
I add the epsom salt for added Mg for strains such as
StarDawg. The idea is that my balanced formula is very low in terms of overall ppm or ec. Im at 800 ppm at a .5 conversion on my meter. This is very low and the plants grow like crazy. Nice cool feed! Anyone else do this kind of thing?
You can adjust either the amount of Jacks or the amount of CaNo3 to tailor the formula to your needs.
What elemental ppm ratio do you guys grow with in terms of N-P-K in flower? I want to find out why everyone is doing a PK boost?
If so when for how long and how much ppm of P? The plant can only utilize so much P at a time........keep the P at 40 ppm and taste the pleasure!
Stretch panda over the tray like a thin membrane clipped into place, no light should hit the roots ever! Light + nutes + air = algea!
By the way I grow on both tables and with a bucket system. I install 1/2 bi-pass valves on all of the buckets lines. Makes clean-up and managment much easier after opening and closing the valves to control the h2o flow. The simple addition of bipass vavles affords you a lot more control.
Sorry to rant.
