Whiskeytango's Area 51

[whiskeytango420]

your ppm of 400 in your water is not good, Can you cut that number in half by adding RO water? that WAS your water ppm and not runoff, correct? They look better already. NO salt!!

too high? Should I use less nutes, or what does that 400 ppm really mean? Minerals?

I think the girls will make it after this incident don't you? Little damage but you saved them. Good thing you said something about carrying in salt. ps- your adding pH down not up right.

They will definitely pull through!!! Thanks for all the help guys!
FF nutes drop ph, so I was using up to get it back right under 7....no good Hank?


good vibes


thanks for the kind words guys!!!! These are my other children, I give them everything I have to try to keep em going!!! Trust me, they still look like this after what they DID look like....I pulled some shit off!! .....lol. The Spoetnik 2.0s all look almost ALL friend though
Glad I got a daddy

 

[whiskeytango420]

wtf? what is going on? My post went to below hank...lol. How do I quote someone that hasnt posted yet? lol...site has a buuuuuug

 

[Rock.Steady]

ok, cool, good to see ya postin up.

dam, thats a tasty selection.

 

[Hank Hemp]

Good Pics WT

Good Pics WT

I think the girls will make it after this incident don't you? Little damage but you saved them. Good thing you said something about carrying in salt. ps- your adding pH down not up right.

 

[whiskeytango420]

the HELL is going on with these posts!?!?!?!? It put my response to hank and weedy below them.....now my log wont go back up on the new posts...lol


good vibes

 

[Peksman]

Yeah we had the same glitch. It is solved now

 

[Weedhound]

IC mag acting funny today.

 

[Hank Hemp]

your right weedhound, weird.

 

[Weedhound]

last time I saw a water ppm that high out of the tap with a ppm of 400 was someone who's well water was yellow....FULL of sulpher. You may want to reconsider RO or find out EXACTLY what that 400 is in your water. That's some mean water.

 

[whiskeytango420]

last time I saw a water ppm that high out of the tap with a ppm of 400 was someone who's well water was yellow....FULL of sulpher. You may want to reconsider RO or find out EXACTLY what that 400 is in your water. That's some mean water.

I think that may be the thing. 1I said it does smell kinda sulfury, I just asked him. Damn I missed ya sis . So here is my next noob question. HOW do I figure out what 400ppm is?

good vibes

 

[Weedhound]

You'd have to have it tested in a a lab, Appaarently when you use city water these kinds of info are much easier to aquire but with a well you'd have to pay someone to test it imo. Any suggestions from anyone else?

 

[Rock.Steady]

http://www.filtersfast.com/Complete-Water-Test-Kit-filters.asp

http://www.filtersfast.com/Sensafe-487986-Test-Filter-Kit.asp

these are 2 their online help recomended.


and yeah, sites been odd today, sent me too many alerts to this thread too.

 

[Peat]

If it stinks like Sulfer,
&
has that high of a ppm,
save the lab fee & put the $ toward a RO filter.

(@ 400 ppm, that water doesn't leave much room for ferts.)
(The pH +/- will add to the total ppm, too)

 

[Weezard]

Well well well. Ya can tell by da smell.

Well well well. Ya can tell by da smell.

If it stinks like Sulfer,
&
has that high of a ppm,
save the lab fee & put the $ toward a RO filter.

(@ 400 ppm, that water doesn't leave much room for ferts.)
(The pH +/- will add to the total ppm, too)

Yer only right, mate!
If it don't smell like sulfur, though, It's most likely calcium.

(Where WT lives, sulfur would be very rare.)

His well water's most common excesses will be NaCl MgCl and Calcium salts.
It's all sand and limestone at the water table.
Too close to the sea and brine infiltrates.

It often pays to listen to Weedy n Peat, yah?

I'd mix in R/O to about 250 ppm and mendicate from there.


(That's around 3 and a half cents, so I'll be wanting change for da tip jar.)


Aloha Y'all

Weeze

 

[Weedhound]

I like the RO and CalMag idea a bit better but thats because Im a control freak. I WANT TO CONTROL EVERYTHING!! I MISS MY HYDRO!!

Sorry.....Im better now,

 

[daihashi]

You can try mixing RO water with your tap water. A lot of people like a 50/50 mix. I have an RO setup but it's not in use due to needing to do some plumbing work around the house. So in the mean time I use a Mr. Clean car wash thing. It filters my 260-300ppm water down to 10-20ppm. The replacement filters are about $5 and I can get 10-12 5 gallon pails (might be more but I know I can get at least this much) out of 1 filter.

Sup WT; long time.

 

[daihashi]

WT; what substrate are you using? From some of the pics I've seen it looks like coco with chunky perlite. PH of 6.8 seems a bit on the high end. Even a bit on the high end if this is soil. I've always been the type that likes to stay right in the middle for the type of medium used, ie: Soil - 6.5, Coco - 6.0 - 5.8, Hydro - 5.5.

Any particular reason for doing 6.8?

 

[whiskeytango420]

I like the RO and CalMag idea a bit better but thats because Im a control freak. I WANT TO CONTROL EVERYTHING!! I MISS MY HYDRO!!

Sorry.....Im better now,

Think an RO system is the best idea...then just add everything, have the ec to 0. go from there with cal mag and bennies?

WT; what substrate are you using? From some of the pics I've seen it looks like coco with chunky perlite. PH of 6.8 seems a bit on the high end. Even a bit on the high end if this is soil. I've always been the type that likes to stay right in the middle for the type of medium used, ie: Soil - 6.5, Coco - 6.0 - 5.8, Hydro - 5.5.

Any particular reason for doing 6.8?

6.5-7 Dai....so I pick 6.8 for shits n giggles...may need to drop it a lil. NOW....just not sure which size of an RO system I need...what is Gpd?

good vibes

 

[Weedhound]

dai I've gone to ph 6.7-6.8 in ph for my soil stuff and so far like the results all in all better than 6.5....my two cents only.

 

[Treetops]

WT,
Check this chart out, gives you an idea where your ph falls...6.8 is higher in the spectrum for soil...I'd drop down to 6.5 or lower..but not much..

Treetops