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"products like hydro guard are only required in an improper setup."You only need 12 elements to grow cannabis hydroponically, humic acid and bennies are not required in a sterile hydroponic environment, and silica products are no longer recommended for liquid feeds due to the likelihood of salt precipitation. Your water should be dead, the opposite of organic. Humic acid is an organic material. Also avoid their sweetners which contain 5% molasses and or 95% cane sugar, also organic materials. Plants are autotrophic and produce sugar, they don’t need to be fed it in hydro. Sugar used is to feed microbes in soil.
A chiller is required to keep proper res temp.and prevent bacteria growth, products like hydro guard are only required in an improper setup.
cleanse or uc roots, cococal, or calimagic, and a/b. All you need to veg.
for flower simply swap veg a/b for bloom and add a mkp supplement. Nothing to it. And it’s definitely best to only use ro in hydro.
If you increase your res tems, you increase the plants metabolism. You will get faster growth rates running 72f than you will 68f. Its proven. So when we build our systems to run warm water, we do it on purpose. Had the system in that picture ran at warmer water temps, it would have produce the same quality in a shorter time frame, OR more of the same quality in the same time frame.
To those who enjoy killing microbs in water, good luck lol. This will only last so long. Just like the real world, plants interact with microorganisms to keep them healthy. Ever heard of super bugs?
I would never reccommend someone adding peroxide to their res. Sure it works now lol, but how many years has it been working? What happens when there is a strain of fungi that you cant kill with peroxide? Sure its not here yet lol, but just like with silly humans, if you keep it in a bubble and kill all microbes, the big one will come wipe out everything.
I also use Massive stimulant, Idk whats in it, but it smells sweet as hell. My microbe community loves it apparently cause my hydrogard bbs keep my Roots white. Microbes also help increase growth rates by keeping the root zone clean, something that sterile lacks.
I run res temps of 74f on purpose, with hydroguard.
Looking at that system in the picture theres no way it could run live, it would have to run sterile, to many light leaks. That system needs painted black lol. . you wont need to use near as much UC roots if ya do.
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