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My background in growing goes back two years, so far all of my experience has been in organic soil. I finally decided to try out hydro and so far its been a headache :worried
Sealed room, Co2, dehumidifier 50-60% temps ~70F
Strains: (1) Purple Kush (1) Deep Purple
Setup: (2) Standalone DWC Buckets, Hydroton
Started by PH buffering the hydroton in a mild nute solution, sat in a 5gal bucket for almost three days, ph seemed to stabilize so I decided to put the girls into the buckets.
These past two days I have been having a very hard time keeping the ph at 5.5, I will adjust the buckets to 5.2 and it will jump up to 8!!
Nute solution: 5 gal clean water, cal-mag to 140ppm, canna aqua vega part a and b 10ml each to 450ppm, 9ml per gal of cannazym, and 15ml per gal of rhizotonic.
I noticed some gunk building up in the buckets earlier, and also spaced on cleaning them before putting the girls in. So I took one out at a time, put her in ph'd clean water. I began cleaning the buckets, first with warm soapy water, then I let them sit (including the air stones and air lines) in ph'd water with H2o2 @ 1 teaspoon per gal for about 45min, then rinsed with hot water thoroughly.
After cleaning the buckets...
I gave them new nutrient solution at 9:28pm and set the ph at 5.2 and now (10:51 pm) one bucket is at 6.1 and the other at 5.7. So in one hour and 23min the ph has jumped up quite drastically.
I'm finding that every two hours I have to adjust the ph.
Are dwc standalone buckets like this? The guy at the local shop told me that canna aqua tends to fluctuate in ph a lot in the first 48hours but will taper off eventually and stabilize.
How are you guys setting your ph?
Somehow I am baffled that these girls aren't looking worse than they are. Starting to show deficiency but I have a pretty good guess as to why....
Sealed room, Co2, dehumidifier 50-60% temps ~70F
Strains: (1) Purple Kush (1) Deep Purple
Setup: (2) Standalone DWC Buckets, Hydroton
Started by PH buffering the hydroton in a mild nute solution, sat in a 5gal bucket for almost three days, ph seemed to stabilize so I decided to put the girls into the buckets.
These past two days I have been having a very hard time keeping the ph at 5.5, I will adjust the buckets to 5.2 and it will jump up to 8!!
Nute solution: 5 gal clean water, cal-mag to 140ppm, canna aqua vega part a and b 10ml each to 450ppm, 9ml per gal of cannazym, and 15ml per gal of rhizotonic.
I noticed some gunk building up in the buckets earlier, and also spaced on cleaning them before putting the girls in. So I took one out at a time, put her in ph'd clean water. I began cleaning the buckets, first with warm soapy water, then I let them sit (including the air stones and air lines) in ph'd water with H2o2 @ 1 teaspoon per gal for about 45min, then rinsed with hot water thoroughly.
After cleaning the buckets...
I gave them new nutrient solution at 9:28pm and set the ph at 5.2 and now (10:51 pm) one bucket is at 6.1 and the other at 5.7. So in one hour and 23min the ph has jumped up quite drastically.
I'm finding that every two hours I have to adjust the ph.
Are dwc standalone buckets like this? The guy at the local shop told me that canna aqua tends to fluctuate in ph a lot in the first 48hours but will taper off eventually and stabilize.
How are you guys setting your ph?
Somehow I am baffled that these girls aren't looking worse than they are. Starting to show deficiency but I have a pretty good guess as to why....