davem415
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There is very minimal smell in the water/root ball. I change the res once a week by siphoning out the water and then refilling with new water. I'm not using H2O2 at this stage of the grow, but I do clean all of the equipment with H2O2 between each grow.You have some really vigorous main roots but the feeder roots seem quite brown to me. How does the root ball and water smell? How often do you drain and replace the water? Have you used any res conditioners or H2O2?
Dee
Nice. How do you use the H2O2? Do you add this weekly? if so, how much per gal?Fresh roots in nutes that are clear (no dyes):
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Healthy roots but are stained fromn General Hydro 3 part FLora nutes that have an amber color to them and they stain the root a light brownish amber. There is a strand of roots in the picture that were starting to get root rot because I had just installed the water chiller. I clipped off the bad ones and the plant recovered very quickly. Are your nutes clear or do some of them have colorants (dyes) in them?
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Thanks for talking about the PPM! After feeding them, the water goes down but my PPMs goes up which didn't make sense to me. I called the support hotline and they told not to worry about it and to follow their feeding chart. They seem to like to push using more nutrients than less.I don't use the H2O2 now that I have a chiller keeping the water at 66+-1 degree. I only use it to battle the pythium and whatever other root issues arise. However, the drug store H2O2 has wierd stabilizers in them that I dont want in my plants so I buy a quart bottle of 33% at the grow shop. Be aware however, it can hurt you so wear gloves and glasses and be real careful not to splash. Make a dilution in some water and slowly add it to the buckets. The directions say 1-3 ml per gallon.
So far my reservoir smells super clean and looks good but I still drain and refill the res once a week.
Not familiar with autos or that strain but since they don't appear to be really large plants I would wonder about the feeding levels but one way to figure it out is to start low and measure and record the ppm daily. if it goes down and the water level goes down you need higher ppm. If the water goes down but your ppm remains the same you hit it right on. if the water level goes down but the ppm goes up your over feeding and wasting money or could burn the girls. Maybe a master grower will chime in and say if I laid that out correctly:)
Dee
I beleive that situation you described indicates over feeding (water level down ppm up).....Thanks for talking about the PPM! After feeding them, the water goes down but my PPMs goes up which didn't make sense to me. I called the support hotline and they told not to worry about it and to follow their feeding chart. They seem to like to push using more nutrients than less.
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