Ppm ?

im using the house and garden full line of aquaflakes and i just recently bought a ppm meter for shit and giggles basically and it was at 513 im pretty sure its good to keep it low right??also i read people were using RO water for the resivor??what is R/O water and where can i get some??haha

royboy12 said:

im using the house and garden full line of aquaflakes and i just recently bought a ppm meter for shit and giggles basically and it was at 513 im pretty sure its good to keep it low right??also i read people were using RO water for the resivor??what is R/O water and where can i get some??haha

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513 is pretty low...


Veg cycle takes "x" amount of PPM depending on strain.

Flower cycle takes "x" amount of PPM depending on strain.

Some strains can go upwards of 2700 ppm in flower, while others can only handle 1500 ppm.

Is your 513 in Veg? or Flower?



R/O is Reverse Osmosis water

READ HERE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_osmosis

thanx for the response brah...its in second week of veg fresh cut soma lavender clones under a 1000 watts of hps beauty..haha..so would i increase ppm by adding more nutrients..i have been low balling the nute measurments only by about 8%..but thats cause i dont want to kill with nute burn..