Voidlings First Cab

glockdoc

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i had some blue dream cuts, all had died :( but now i got 4 jackberry plants and 1 sugar punch all from sannies handed to me to show some tlc too. got a micro cab, ill start a thread or something... planing to do some hydro void?

tried registering for stoner forums but never got my activation email owl let admin know for me.
 

Voidling

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So it's that's backcross. That's cool.

Yeah I'm doing a mini hydro thing.

Do things like aqua shield and zho raise ppm? Not sure what my nuts levels are. Plants are growing but not much change in ppm
 

Voidling

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I forgot about the bad news, I keep blocking it out. Just got the worst of the news today. My most loved family member got news today that the cancer has already spread.

I've stayed sober for a bit now to clean up for a job. Debating on smoking or hitting the bottle or both
 

Theowl

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Sorry to hear that Vman. Wish I could smoke you out, or bottle ya up..
my best wishes and strongest intent driven will of strength to your family, and mostly to the person concerned.
 

glockdoc

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yea man real sorry to hear that. smoke and drink up for real, you could probably use it, so why not abuse it for a day or 2. you wont be fine but you will probably feel some what better the you do at the moment.
 

Voidling

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Thanks. I guess I was in denial for a while but with yesterday's news I blew right through the other stages of grief. Now I'm just sad. Not sure how to make the best of the time left
 

colocowboy

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You said it man, spend the time with them!
It's the only thing you'll wish you had more of!
Love them as much as you can! ;)
peace brother!
 

Voidling

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I've got to remember to test pH more often. My test just turned red which is 4.0 or lower. No wonder ppm isn't going down.
 

Voidling

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Well it was real red so 10ml of pH up. 1.5 hours later turned blue blue. Got a to do small amounts over time
 

colocowboy

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It will change naturally through the day too, got to be careful of "chasing" the ph
it's a frame of reference, test at lights on (before they start to drink), all other tests during the day are just a frame reference to ph drift. Adjust only with adding water or nutrient solution, eventually you will have an average adjustment to go by and your testing will identify if something is going wrong with uptake that you would correlate with your observation of growth. That is where changing the res gives a "reset" but that can stress the plants because they need the daily ph swing as the different nutrients, minerals, and micros are absorbed at different PHs. Ah, ha! Of course the ladies will read this as stress, all stress retards growth. A good way to look at what your doing is eliminating environmental stress, hydroponics can be a vessel for doing exactly that, that is in fact the premise of using these techniques. In order to eliminate these stresses you have to look at it from the standpoint of what they like or don't like in their natural environment.
When you hear it said that hydro should be at 5.8 ph @ 600-1200 ppm, that is at res change and by change I mean at addition of fluid.
 

Voidling

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Yeah but I thought 4.0 would be way too low. Then the blue is way too high, so I added pH down 5ml. Now my drops turn red again. I need to get a digital pH meter.
 

colocowboy

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It really is best to have a digi. There are options from $25 up to as much as you would like to pay. Amazon has them cheap, don't forget to get reference solution. They have "single use" packets that can be used more than once. Maybe 3 times before they could give bad readings, you don't recalibrate that often. Maybe once a month.
 

Theowl

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this is the one I was talking about Voidling. If this is all I have what ALL do I need to get to run it?
 
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