Forgot to add. Use only plain water until the plants start yellowing from the bottom up, not in between the leaf veins. The ocean forest will have plenty in it. I use(d)
promix retail a lot which has nutrients in it that aren't time release, like ocean forest does, and itll feed a plant from seed for about 6 weeks of growth on its own with just water. Ph is also way less important in peat, soil, and coco premade mixes, full coco being an exception to this. A ppm meter will be useful for learning. I also recommend fabric pots instead of plastic. Any brand, Walmart has cheap fabric grocery bags that work well. It's much easier to not overwater plants in fabric pots, as well as have them reach larger, more natural size expressions of their genetics. Immature plants in solid pots will not express their full genetic size. Other than that, you can ppm check your collected runoff to see how much food is left in the medium and what it will tolerate. Good way to confirm your analysis. The cheap light blue ones on amazon work fine at first and ive actually never broken one over a decade of growing, though i don't use them anymore. Can i ask you about your food plans and lights? Adding uvb adds noticeable potency increases when using only hps. HPS alone doesn't provide enough uvb(in my opinion) to allow the plant to fully express its potency. Even just hanging a few cfl coils will improve this. Feel free to ask me anything.
