Well here she (hopefully) is after 2 feedings at 1/4 strength Flora Nova grow. I have a question about when I should start feeding it a full tsp. instead of 1/2 tsp? Anyone know?
Not to be mean man, but have you grown in a Hempy bucket before? Air stones dont do anything, and just get clogged with nutes.
Uh... I've done 2+ years worth of growing in hempy buckets with FloraNova as my base and various organic amendments to keep everything healthy. The air stones are critical whenEVER you run a non-sterile environment. Otherwise you end up with anerobic nasties. This is why folks typically run H2O2, Zone, or other equivalent products. It's a "nuke everything" approach.
Meanwhile, what I'm suggesting is that you use nature to fight nature... just as what happens outside. It saves a lot of money, increases yield, improves taste/aroma, and is substantially less work. You may end up not needing a ppm meter, too. Other than that... I guess there's no reason to value it.
P.S. I've never once had an airstone clog on me. I use the cheap stuff for fish tanks. Get your rig set up right and the microherd eats everything clean.
You are way over complicating the simpleness of hempy though.
IMO the plant will be better to tell you what's going on in lieu of a meter.
When does it become not a seedling. I mean its like 2 weeks old now.
I was a bit confused with this myself... I'm 30 days from seed and they're definitely not seedlings anymore... I'd say once you get 4 or 5 distinct nodes you're past the seedling stage...
Hi all just a few points here why would you not feed a plant soon into its life
i feed my seedlings or freshly rooted clones full strength nutrients as soon as the seedling opens...
the medium has no nutrient value so what you feed them is what they get to grow on.
from what i know from the researching i did on organic hydro at the time all the alleged organic hydro nutrients had synthetic nutrient component to it so it wasn't a true organic nutrien
basically organics need time to brake down and... with hydro nutrients as soon as there feed the plant can take up the nutrients straight away.
he did it his way and not only did his plants look well far from happy the yield was bad but with organics it may be of benefit .
Perlite has plenty of space for air.
...but with organics it may be of benefit .
Plus Hempy himself said that you can start off feeding at full strength.
Perlite has plenty of space for air.