:giggle You're too popular... Time to start a new photobucket account...
I started up a new account a little while ago. I just wasn't paying attention to my bandwidth usage(witch I will now pay attention to). I seem to have a lot more views then reply's no doubt though.
LOL Damn!! Yah when I saw the 3 ml Roots Excelurator I figured it was for 3 gallons.
-Supa
Ya my bad on the nutrient confusion. I should have thought about that.:bong2:
Outdoor Flower Update
Hey everyone! So I'm about 2 weeks into flowering with the girl's outside. They seem to be doing quite well for the most part. I will admit that the Chem's probably need a bit of N as they are starting to yellow. The rest are not far behind. I suppose this is about the time that my Super Soil runs out of nutrients. It's been roughly 45 days since I transplanted into it. The next time I make it I'm going to increase the strength by about 25% to see how much longer it lasts. I feel that this current batch turned out quite well and I was happy to see it didn't burn my plants in the least but I would like to see a lengthened nutrient release that lasts at least 60 days. Definitely a good base mix that can be built upon for sure. I can easily see myself using this SS idea for years to come at least as far as outside adventures go.
Here is what I have been feeding them as of late.
Feeding(8/7/10)
Compost tea
12 gallons:
4 cups EWC
4 cups Alaskan Humus
16TBSP Buswell guano mix
4TBSP soluble Kelp
180ml Ancient Amber(Fulvic Acid)
120ml Trinity
6tsp Molasses
Feeding(8/9/10)
per gallon
15ml humega
15ml huvega
Feeding(8/11/10)
250ppm cal mag
5.3ml Pura Vida Grow
1.3l Pura Videa Bloom
15ml Ancient Amber
PH 6.0
PPM=450(about .9EC)
Feeding(8/13/10)
Top Dressing:
EWC(1-0-0)
Vital Earths all purpose guano(7-7-2)
R/O water
As you can see the feeding's actually have some substance to them now hehe. As for the first one that is a compost tea. Here are some pictures of it.
http://i1014.invalid.com/albums/af261/fatyfatkins/IMG_1479.jpg
http://i1014.invalid.com/albums/af261/fatyfatkins/IMG_1481.jpg
The second feeding was a combination of humic acid(humega) and Trace minerals(huvega). I did that in order to hopefully revitalize the soil with any trace minerals that were missing or exhausted.
The third feeding was my attempt to correct the N def I started to notice. I know I could have fed stronger but I was wary of adding nutes to my soil after not feeding it anything for so long. So I stayed safe and fed it light to see how it reacted. It didn't really do much so I know I can feed stronger without any problems.
The last feeding happened out of an interesting yet annoying occurrence. My HM digital PH pen(PH-200) witch I purchased recently malfunctioned. So instead of measuring PH I applied a top dressing witch does not require PH adjustment. Here are some pictures for you guys.
Head Band
http://i1014.invalid.com/albums/af261/fatyfatkins/HB2.jpg
http://i1014.invalid.com/albums/af261/fatyfatkins/HB1.jpg
http://i1014.invalid.com/albums/af261/fatyfatkins/HB.jpg
Chem Dawg(first one to produce noticeable resin. A good sign indeed)
http://i1014.invalid.com/albums/af261/fatyfatkins/CD.jpg
http://i1014.invalid.com/albums/af261/fatyfatkins/CD1.jpg
http://i1014.invalid.com/albums/af261/fatyfatkins/CD2.jpg
Casey Jones(A little late compared to the others in terms of flowering. I suppose she will take a bit longer to mature)
http://i1014.invalid.com/albums/af261/fatyfatkins/CJ.jpg
http://i1014.invalid.com/albums/af261/fatyfatkins/CJ2.jpg
http://i1014.invalid.com/albums/af261/fatyfatkins/CJ1.jpg
HM Digital PH-200 Story
Unfortunately I noticed I was going to have problems from day 1 of the purchase. For one thing the electrode did not come in a storage solution(It is supposed to be constantly submersed in a storage solution when not in use). What do you know? When I checked it's calibration, it was off. Well I thought it was an acceptable margin for error at the time. I decided to disregard the lack of storage solution since I re-calibrated it and I assumed it was fine. That was definitely a red flag. Now when I used my pen I would first check its calibration every time as I was wary of it's ability(because of day 1). Every time it would drift about .20 so for example. The 4.01 solution should read 4.01 on the meter(or at least really close to that) but every time It would drift to somewhere between 4.15-4.22. Another red flag. So that persisted for about 2 months. I would recalibrate it every time I used it in order to achieve the correct reading(what a pain) Finally the end of it's day's came today witch just so happens to be Friday the 13th LOL. I went to calibrate it and what do you? The probe insists that my 4.01 solution is 7.01, and that my 7.01 solution is 10.01.
Wow so much for the reliability in auto calibration. Fortunately one is able to manually adjust the PH or so they say hehe. Even if one decides to manually adjust the PH on the HM digital PH-200 the numbers will not go above or past a certain point because essentially the meter is still auto sensing the solutions PH so it won't let it go past a certain point. My example. If the Pen thinks a solution should be 7.01 or somewhere around that it will assume that you are trying to reach 7.01 when you manually calibrate it. As a result of this assumption it won't let you go past a certain PH. For instance You won't be able to go below 5.5 or above 8.5. It's probably set up like that as a safe guard to ensure the auto calibration will always see 7.01 as 7.01, but in a sense it is holding me back from recalibrating my pen. Since my pen reads the 4.01 as 7.01 I can only calibrate it down to 5.5(in order to get it down to 4.01). If I try the auto calibrate after I manually adjust it to 5.5 it thinks the 4.01 solution is a 7.01 solution and re-calibrates back to 7.01 LOL. Luckily my pen is still under warranty so hopefully I can get a replacement probe. So either HM digital's PH-200 is unreliable, or I just so happened to get a bunk probe. I hope the correct answer is the latter.
Anyway I thought I would let all of you know about my experience with that pen so far.
Veg Tent Update
So the veg girl's are looking pretty sweet right now. I might even say they look a tad too sweet(as in too much N) so I'm going to start backing off a bit on the food just in case as I don't want to start locking out other nutrients. Here is what I have been feeding them as of late.
Feeding(8/5/10)
R/O water
Feeding(8/7/10)
250ppm cal mag
5.3ml Pura Vida Grow
1.3l Pura Videa Bloom
5ml
Silica blast
15ml Ancient Amber
1ml
Roots Excelurator
10ml Cannazym
PH 6.0
PPM=550(about 1.1EC)
Feeding(8/9/10)
250ppm cal mag
5.3ml Pura Vida Grow
1.3l Pura Videa Bloom
5ml
Silica blast
15ml Ancient Amber
1ml
Roots Excelurator
10ml Cannazym
PH 6.0
PPM=550(about 1.1EC)
Feeding(8/11/10)
250ppm cal mag
5.3ml Pura Vida Grow
1.3l Pura Videa Bloom
15ml Ancient Amber
PH 6.0
PPM=450(about .9EC)
Feeding(8/13/10)
R/O water
Here are some pictures of the girls.
http://i1014.invalid.com/albums/af261/fatyfatkins/IMG_1503.jpg
http://i1014.invalid.com/albums/af261/fatyfatkins/IMG_1508.jpg