Originally Posted by Earl

Being an old airline pilot,
I am used to paying attention to the gauges.

I am a little OCD about keeping the number where I want them.

I grew for quite a while without tds.

Once you have your particular strain dialed in,
tds is just a reassuring number,
when you glance at the gauge.

Of course for stoners,
a meter is sometimes a saviour,
like when you forget to replace the nutes,
and you thought you did,
but when you look at the meter it reads 50ppm,
you might think to yourself,
"I guess I haven't got that done yet."

The main reason I use the tds meter
is to save money.

I knew you'd ask.

First example is I use less nutes.

Second I taper the tds up and down
as the plant reaches each phase of it's life.

Third is dialing in a new strain.

I hate tip burn on my plants.

If you notice how the organic guys are so certain,
that there's has the best flavor and buzz.

Well, they are right about the flavor, most of the time.

The flavor is made up of chemicals that the plant mfg.

Chemicals from your nutes
burn inside the cell when they are too concentrated,
and in that chemical fire
the flavor is changed forever.

Tip burn is just an indication,
that the damage is already done.

If your weed taste like hay,
it can be genetic,
but it's mostly due to overfeeding.
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