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Old 01-28-2017, 06:58 AM #1
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Adding liquid nutes to AACT-TDS readings drop from 850 to 130? Lower than tap TDS?

Please understand i am not following any strict regimen, and this whole grow has been an experiment.

Ive been strictly watering with actively aerated tea's my whole grow.

About half thru veg, i decided to start adding GH gro, micro, bloom, and cal mag into my tea's, before brewing.

Ive been doing the 321veg, 123flower ratios. 5 plants, each get 3 gallons of water in their 10 gallon fabric pots. I dont even vaccum the runoff. It soaks back up into the pots within a few hours and my runoff is still testing great.

I notice my TDS readings when i add the nutes to the tea drop dramatically after a 24 hour brew cycle.

For instance- Todays feed, first 123 flower recipe:
15 gal tap water.... tests 150 tds straight from tap and 8.2 PH

ADD: 1 cup worm castings, 15 tsp Recharge, 1 cup molasses
40ml gro
80ml micro
120ml bloom
40ml cal/mag

Test again: 850TDS-8.6PH

Brew with 1150gph air pump for 24 hours and take readings again
130TDS.....6.2PH

Water plants with this mix TDS 130/PH 6.2 going in, TDS 320/PH 6.5 runoff

Plants look GREAT

This has been happening consistently.

So, are the microbes eating the nutrients, then the plants eating the microbes?

Would i be better off adding the nutrients right before watering so microbes dont eat all the nutrients?

Here are my plants at day 44 https://imgur.com/a/DPWKe

Can anyone make sense of what is happening in that 15 gallons of Tea?

TL/DR; Making Aerated teas and adding nutrients to teas. TDS after 24 hours of brewing dropping from 850 to 130, which is lower than what comes straight out of my tap?
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Old 01-28-2017, 07:10 AM #2
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Forgot to add

5 photoperiod plants-1 auto (surprise)
10 gal fabric pots-30/30/30/10 perlite, pro mix hp, composted horse manure, worm castings
4x4 foot tent
Gavita DE 1000. 6500k MH Veg-2000K HPS flower
temps staying between 66-81F, RH 40-60% depending on how recent they were watered
Watering with AACT/nutes added.... every 4-5 days as needed...
Vegged 45 days at 18/6...flipped to flower day 45, now on day 3 flower
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Old 01-31-2017, 03:26 PM #3
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