Capulator
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Like most things in life nowadays, I think we all fell for the marketing hype for awhile. I owe a lot to Cap and some others for really opening my eyes to properly feeding your plants. Once I learned a little you can start to see what crap they are trying to sell you. I think I read in another thread that AN has something like 96 additives on the market. Are you kidding me? And the cost...... I can get 50lbs of jacks and CalNit for about the same as 1gal of Botanicare hydroplex (which is nothing more than a P/K booster at $78.00).
Jacks has a pretty good array of Micros but it is missing a few, silicon being one. That is why Cap supplements with protekt. I have not gone this route yet. It is also missing chlorine, cobalt and selenium. I am thinking about adding in calcium chloride to increase Ca and gain some chlorine. That is going to hold off though as I would rather run Bennies and I can't see adding chlorine into the mix as being a good thing. Once I know what the bennies are doing I wil start adding it in at low levels and see if it has any adverse affect. I have not done any research on plant needs and cobalt or selinum.
I'll see if I can find an analysis for the micro blast.
Thanks to everyone for continuing to contribute.
I know I said it earlier but I wan't to personally thank Capulator for taking the time to share his knowledge and experiences. On top of that his Tea packs appear to be the bees knees. Don't change a thing Cap the foil packs and the sharpie let's me know I am getting something with a personal touch and not some hydro store marketed up crap. Plus it has a mystique when you let your buddies try it and they just can't stand not knowing what it is.
Its strain dependent I am sure. Most people running a UC peak at 2.0 at around week 5, and then taper off when plants slow down eating.I tried this with my tangerine and locked it up at week 4.
My plants have 4k of light each.
One thing:
When I move my plants in to the big girls room, the plants dont transpire enough to compete with the amount of water the AC pulls from the air coupled with 9k of hot light. For the first 2 weeks on both of my last runs they looked like shit and didnt do much in the beginning (first 2-3 weeks) . DD talked about lumen shock, but I think what they were/are experiencing was/is RH shock.
My RH was at 28 and the plants looked shitty. This time I didn't wait though, I grabbed a humidifier that puts out like 6 gallons/hour and comes with an autofill.
Following the advice of Janus, I am running my RH at 60 minimum. The plants are much better after a few days of this.
there you go.
28% RH was fucking with my plants bigtime. Now I have it at 50 with my new humidifier and all is well. Plants need to transpire and they cant do this is the VPD is off. Funny because my explosion of growth was coming when the plants finally got big enough to offset the AC. It seems that plants will still push roots at low RH, but they wont push new shoots so much.
Stands to reason, the plants are trying to keep up with their water loss in low RH conditions, so they're going to push roots and minimize leaf surface area. Stomata stay closed, slowing growth and inhibiting CO2 uptake.
I'll make a lil side bet with you that you'll see benefits from an increase in EC now that you've raised your humidity level...
I use jacks with a ratio (note ratio not grams per gallon). I start with a 3.1.2 NPK ratio in veg and transition to ..a 1.1.2 ratio in bloom and i also use epsom. You have to do the math to get the ratios right. Once i get a concetrate mixed i adjust for correct ppm.Hello all,
I am curios to see how everyone is using Jack's pro 5-12-26 and CalNit in RDWC. From my research it seems most people are running 3gr Jacks, 2 gr CalNit, 1gr Epsom. I know Capulator has been adding additional salts, is anyone else deviating from the basic?
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