anferneybra
Member
Greetings,
For years now I have grown in flood tables and ebb/flow systems with great success with all sorts of strains. I have used GH 3 part with some SM90 thats it, great yields and plants couldn't be happier. As of recent I have teamed up with another grower with limited experience, and she uses PBP botanicare line.
She is having major issues in flower, and I dont know enough about the line to diagnose the problems. They make it about a week into flower and then turn yellow, spotty and overall unhappy.
I see that botanicare runs a 1 part grow, bloom and then pro soil chart, with a wide array of additives. She goes by the chart, with calmag and liquid karma as her additives.
Im reading her mixes at over 2.6EC and sometimes the PH after making a new batch of bloom is as low as 5.0PH The ph swings up after a couple waterings but the ppm is super high. She is using the full ML dosage on the chart even when at the bottom it says to reduce the fertilizer by 10-25% when using additives. Her reservoirs also have nutrients that look like they are seperating and turning the tables a nasty ass brown.
My question is for anyone experienced with botanicare in a hydroponic setup using a 3inch rockwool cube in a 1gal hydroton container.
What do you run per gallon of what?
Also, why would you use something called "pro soil" in a hydroponic environment? It seems that its nasty and turning everything brown...can you just run PBPbloom instead of pro soil?
I know there is probably no short answer but im trying to get through to her that she is running way too hot in the nutrients.
As a sample of what she runs is like week 4 flower=
20ml/gal PBPbloom
5ml/gal cal mag
10ml/gal liquid karma
3ml/gal SM90
Thanks for any info or advice anyone with experience with this line has!
Tony
For years now I have grown in flood tables and ebb/flow systems with great success with all sorts of strains. I have used GH 3 part with some SM90 thats it, great yields and plants couldn't be happier. As of recent I have teamed up with another grower with limited experience, and she uses PBP botanicare line.
She is having major issues in flower, and I dont know enough about the line to diagnose the problems. They make it about a week into flower and then turn yellow, spotty and overall unhappy.
I see that botanicare runs a 1 part grow, bloom and then pro soil chart, with a wide array of additives. She goes by the chart, with calmag and liquid karma as her additives.
Im reading her mixes at over 2.6EC and sometimes the PH after making a new batch of bloom is as low as 5.0PH The ph swings up after a couple waterings but the ppm is super high. She is using the full ML dosage on the chart even when at the bottom it says to reduce the fertilizer by 10-25% when using additives. Her reservoirs also have nutrients that look like they are seperating and turning the tables a nasty ass brown.
My question is for anyone experienced with botanicare in a hydroponic setup using a 3inch rockwool cube in a 1gal hydroton container.
What do you run per gallon of what?
Also, why would you use something called "pro soil" in a hydroponic environment? It seems that its nasty and turning everything brown...can you just run PBPbloom instead of pro soil?
I know there is probably no short answer but im trying to get through to her that she is running way too hot in the nutrients.
As a sample of what she runs is like week 4 flower=
20ml/gal PBPbloom
5ml/gal cal mag
10ml/gal liquid karma
3ml/gal SM90
Thanks for any info or advice anyone with experience with this line has!
Tony