Shaking Off the Cobwebs Grow Diary

[WhatWouldBobDo]

pH will always go up if everything is healthy and eating, if it goes down there's usually root rot or a stinky rez. If the ppm comes out less than what you put in you can feed a little more. You want it either the same or no more than 150-200 more than what you put in. The extra cal mag should put you right there. It's an EC hog. Pound for pound will raise ppm more than anything else you put in.

If after adding 1 ml per gallon of CalMag, the runoff is still less than the rez, should I bump up the CalMag another 1 ml? Or increase all the other nutes?

 

[Grownsince95]

Me personally I always use the same amount of calmag and armor si the whole grow until I start dropping everything at the end.

 

[WhatWouldBobDo]

Day 44

The Gals appear to be recovering well.
They got moved into a 4x4 tent. One of the pepper plants is now sitting in an AutoPot. Seeing how I like it.
The recirculation is nice, but I’m going through quite a bit of runoff water. I don’t know how much is normal, but I’d say I’ve got about 4-5 gallons of waste water a day.

20/4 light, 75% intensity.
76 deg F temperature
Keeping humidity under 65% (60% at the moment)
1.23 VPD
5 ml Silica / 5 ml CalMag / 5 ml Micro / 5 ml Grow / 3 ml Bloom, ph to 6.0 (tap water), 1128 ppm tds
Runoff is sitting around the same, 1138 ppm tds.

I’ll move them into 12/12 lighting when the current batch of nutes run out. Looks like sometime over the weekend.

 

[WhatWouldBobDo]

Day 50

Put the new tent under an EVO8, and flipped it to 12/12 today.

12/12 light, 60% intensity.
78 deg F temperature
Keeping humidity under 60% (66% at the moment)
1.10 VPD
5 ml Silica / 5 ml CalMag / 5 ml Micro / 5 ml Grow / 5 ml Bloom, ph to 6.0 (tap water), 1100 ppm tds
Runoff sitting around the same, maybe 1150.