PPM/EC readings help

Alright just started to do a water feeding and my ppm/ec meter arived today woo hoo kinda .....well i take a look at my feeding chart and go by that for ml to leters with nutes ....then i checked my ppm reading with what nutes they told me to use...my feeding chart told me 8 ml of nutes and 600ppm ......well i used the 8ml and then checked my ppm and it was only 050..........i then started adding more nutes to try and get it up to 600 ppm added 8ml more and only bumbed to 70....
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do i just keep adding nutes tell my ppm reading is right ??? i read my instructions and have been trying to find more info on that not haveing any luck .....my two plants in coco are reallly getting dry and i was going to try and feed them with understanding my ppm/ec meter

can any one help me out ?? hahaha plus +rep for help

this prolly wont help but mabye try to find some detailed instructions on the meter from the company website might need to be calibrated batterys might be pooched cant think of anything else hopefully someone smarter than me will respond heh gl hope ya get it working

xbeast said:

this prolly wont help but mabye try to find some detailed instructions on the meter from the company website might need to be calibrated batterys might be pooched cant think of anything else hopefully someone smarter than me will respond heh gl hope ya get it working

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thanks man yea i was thinking that but its new today right out of the package woudnt think i would have to calibrate it but you might be right .....

yea hoping some others can give me a little info

What type of water are you using?

distilled water

What type of nuts are you using? What is your ppms factory PPM setting calibrated at?

greenearth5 said:

What type of nuts are you using? What is your ppms factory PPM setting calibrated at?

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well it depends on my plants i have some in coco some in hydro and there all at different stages

since i got it new i didnt think i had to calibrate it ..... guess thats my problems then ..... gotta go buy some soliution to calibrate it

It should come pre calibrated. If its made for hydro plant growing then it will be clibrated around 1200 ppm but if its clibrated for drinking water then it will be cali at 100 or so. This will make it more accurate. Dont ask me why or how this works because i dont know. This is just what i heard from the tech support for my ppm meter.

Assuming that it is calibrated correctly I would half to tell you to measure your stuff by the teaspoon and not ml. I usually put 1 tsp or tbl in per one gallon of water. Sometimes i put two or three ferts in the water and thats when it brings my ppm way up.

Check this chart out for foxfarm.

http://www.foxfarmfertilizer.com/hydrofeed.pdf

Hulk Nugs said:

well it depends on my plants i have some in coco some in hydro and there all at different stages

since i got it new i didnt think i had to calibrate it ..... guess thats my problems then ..... gotta go buy some soliution to calibrate it

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i have a Control Wizard DigiStick PPM TDS EC Meter - Hydroponics

thats a sweet nute chart tells you everthing ...every company should do somthing like that ... i am going try it agian ..... if it does not work then i will have to get the calibration solution and calirbrate it.

stick your ppm meter in your nutes and see what if it reads very low... How many gallons of water are you using?

just stick the meter into the nutes not nuted water ??? ..... the most i use is 2 gallons ......my aero,dwc,waterfarm holds 2 gallons each

stick your meter into your nutes and see if it reads 1000 or so.. that will tell ya if ur ppm meter is working.. i think your problem is that u just didnt put enough nutes into your water.

with two gallons of water i would use a few tbs of nutes

well i just tried my lowest possible reading to check the metter

used
1 gallon distilled water
nutes a/b 1.5 ml
ec should be 1.2

i got a ec of 1.1
a ppm of 061

so it looks good on the ec ......but ppm is so low i heard someone say they have to x10 there ppm to get the actualy reading......not sure its thats what i have to do, the meter instructions dont say anything about that.

thanks for all your help man wish i cold give you more rep

ill be looking out for your threads

the x10 on my ppm reading only applies when my ppm hits 1000 or more. It will simply round 1190 to "119 x 10" ... dont worry about this..

1 Milliliter = 0.20288502506 Teaspoons (US)

that means you are using way to few of the nutes bro ... stick 3 - 6 times that in a gallon which should bring your ppm up to 180 - 360 .. but take a ppm readin each and everytime you put some nutes in.. its easy to go over board

nah man i think that was it ... i just some info from another bro and he just went to meters web site and took a quote from the instructions saying that i need to x10 my reading ........ haha i was pissed it was right there all along just didnt read it right .....well i hope thats what it is....it pays to read and read slow and read untell i understand it lmao dam this is what i put my teachers threw in school no wonder why they just said ill pass you if you just show up and that was before i smoked

ok guys hate to be a real noob but on those meters are we lookin for an accurate reading like 800 or is it goin to be 80 x10=800?