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MostlyCrazy

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Too low for veg but about right for flower. During a winter veg I seem to have to run a hunidifier in the room to get it over 55%. During the hot humid summer it's not much of a problem and my work is keeping the humidity down during flower by increasing air movement.
 

websluef

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MC-great call. I drained about a gallon of water and put in plain ph'd water plus the amount to top off res to get the ppm's from 1100 back down to 800. I actually had the water in my fridge then the freezer to get the res temp down too. And even an un-trained eye like mine I could see the difference when I got home today.
Much Much better and man she grew over night. Today I did a drain and replenishment. Totally washed out my bucket and then wiped out with some vinegar. I remember, the plant was at its best at 800 ppm's. I guess the trick is to know when to bump the ppm's up and then maybe only 50-100 each time. I'll post some picts tommorrow, she is looking huge at 24" started from seed 9/10.

Roseman-thanks for that info on the ppm's at different stages. I jst looked at it again,early bloom 750-950. I think at 800 I was pushing it and when it went to 900,1000 it started to become an issue.
 

MostlyCrazy

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Slow and steady always wins this race.

Young bull to old bull. Hey, see those cows at the bottom of the hill? Old Bull: yeah, what about 'em. Young bull - Let's run done there and get us one! Old Bull: How about we walk done there and get all of 'em!
 

Roseman

Elite Rolling Society
MC-great call. I drained about a gallon of water and put in plain ph'd water plus the amount to top off res to get the ppm's from 1100 back down to 800. I actually had the water in my fridge then the freezer to get the res temp down too. And even an un-trained eye like mine I could see the difference when I got home today.
Much Much better and man she grew over night. Today I did a drain and replenishment. Totally washed out my bucket and then wiped out with some vinegar. I remember, the plant was at its best at 800 ppm's. I guess the trick is to know when to bump the ppm's up and then maybe only 50-100 each time. I'll post some picts tommorrow, she is looking huge at 24" started from seed 9/10.

Roseman-thanks for that info on the ppm's at different stages. I jst looked at it again,early bloom 750-950. I think at 800 I was pushing it and when it went to 900,1000 it started to become an issue.
All of the charts I have for PPM feedings do not differate from HID Lights and CFLs and I don't know if they mean for HOT lights or Cool lights..
Plants under HID lights can eat and digest (absorb) not only more nutes, but a stronger dose of nutes too.

With CFLs, I think we should feed less strenght and less often too.
 

MostlyCrazy

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I agree. Don't go high nutes without hid lights. You'll burn them or nute lock them. Like the dif between a 4 cylinder and a 8 banger. The sh nutes are tuned to cfl's.
 
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