The difficulty of hydro is why everyone is saying coco. I think coco will give the same yield and quality as hydro, without the constant risk of crop failure.
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About to Give up all together after years
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OG Tree Grower
I've never lost a crop in hydro, not in 25 years. Everything about it is easier, faster, cleaner than dirt , problems are usually environmental or user error, and make no mistake coco doesn't obtain the growth rates you can get from areo /freedom buckets not even close.
EastCoast710
Active member
the dudes having problems lol.. this isn't about YOU.. ..
OP.. Switch to "COCO" . feed 5.8-6.2
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OG Tree Grower
East coast. I was telling him not to believe the widely spread newbie advise in this thread about hydro being hard. But no worries I'm pretty much done on this forum, you kids have fun
PerfectGrower
Vendor
OP please contact me at kevin@perfectgrower.com or message me here...
I will give you some of our products for free and show you the future of growing
I will give you some of our products for free and show you the future of growing
gardener60
Active member
Congrats. I am glad you stuck with it. Keep me posted on the flowering.
Update:
they girls are drinking. I noticed the ppm dropeed fast so I upped to 240ppm@.7 and they are still drinking, so I have upped again to 320ppm @.7, I think this will be the sweet spot fro veg.
regarding PH.
I find with GHE nutes, there is no need to add PH down at all. at the way to 220 ppm its the Ph stay in the range of 5.6 to 5.8.
If I go over 220ppm, i have to increase the PH, so I add a few caps of silica protekt, and PH up.
the issue is with topping off. when the girls are drinking, i have to add nutes to the res and its already at 5.6, so adding the nutes will drop the PH to 4.5 or so, sometimes, 4.0. So I need to add PH up and silica at the point, the thing is I am trying to figure out a way to stabilize the PH a bit better, than adding PH up all the time.
I guess the PH dropping a bit here and there is a good thing, it mean they are eating, where as before with my tap water, it would just rise and rise to its original PH all the time.
my sativa strain however is not doing so good, its a bit sensitive. I am still trying to figure it out, i think its because the PH dropped below 5 and i left it liek that for 2 or 3 days.
they girls are drinking. I noticed the ppm dropeed fast so I upped to 240ppm@.7 and they are still drinking, so I have upped again to 320ppm @.7, I think this will be the sweet spot fro veg.
regarding PH.
I find with GHE nutes, there is no need to add PH down at all. at the way to 220 ppm its the Ph stay in the range of 5.6 to 5.8.
If I go over 220ppm, i have to increase the PH, so I add a few caps of silica protekt, and PH up.
the issue is with topping off. when the girls are drinking, i have to add nutes to the res and its already at 5.6, so adding the nutes will drop the PH to 4.5 or so, sometimes, 4.0. So I need to add PH up and silica at the point, the thing is I am trying to figure out a way to stabilize the PH a bit better, than adding PH up all the time.
I guess the PH dropping a bit here and there is a good thing, it mean they are eating, where as before with my tap water, it would just rise and rise to its original PH all the time.
my sativa strain however is not doing so good, its a bit sensitive. I am still trying to figure it out, i think its because the PH dropped below 5 and i left it liek that for 2 or 3 days.
PerfectGrower
Vendor
Yeah... you need to make sure that pH stays above the 5.5 mark or you'll have some uptake issues.
Glad you're back on track, keep us posted.
Glad you're back on track, keep us posted.
