If your water is bad, you'll know it by the leaf ends going brown and crisp. Of course, too much ferts can do that too . . .

A lot of the growers I look to for guidance are in favor of frequent light feedings at 1/4 to 1/2 strength and never go to the full dosage. Do you have the Fox Farms hydro formula of Grow Big or the soil version (which is stronger). As for wasting nutes, another thing I do is water past just filling the res so a little comes out. I allow about a quart to spill out when I water. This helps flush out any salts that might be building up and corrects any pH wandering that might occur (this is one consequence of not watering as frequently as Hempy) and generally just revives the medium, at least that's my theory. It also gives me a chance to test the runoff for pH and residual nutes. I use so little nutes at 1/2 strength it just doesn't seem like waste to me.

There is something funny about your leaves, they are sort of rumpled, which could be the genetics, or water amount and or quality. They should grow out of it the next leaf set or two. I think your mix, especially since it has vermiculite in it, will hold enough water to go every other day.

Hmmm, never thought of using snow before. I'm going to melt some and test it when I get home. If it's good, god knows I've got enough of it (minnesota). I buy water from the supermarket. I have two 5 gallon jugs that I refill from the RO water dispenser there. It's 32 cents a gallon. Right now, when I fill my big girls up, they take about 1.5 gallons each. But, as you know, I let my buckets dry up and I overflow about a quart as I just said.

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