Aqua Canna

I bought Vega A & B for my Ebb and Flow system, guy told me to use 200MG of A and 200MG of B, but I wasn't sure if that was to strong? How often should I add more in my 20 gal tank? Every 30 days or only once per cycle?

Go on the canna website and view the grow guide.

You put in your chosen medium/nutes/tank volume etc then choose light feeding.

http://www.canna-uk.com/growguide


This will help you on amounts per your tank volume.


I highly recommend getting yourselft a pH meter and a nutrient strength meter. EC ppm TDS etc.


J

I have a PH tester, what should normal be?

In hydro anywhere from 5.2-6.2.

The best IMO being 5.5.

Are you going to be testing your nutrient strength?



J

jondamon said:

In hydro anywhere from 5.2-6.2.

The best IMO being 5.5.

Are you going to be testing your nutrient strength?



J

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I apologize, this is my first hydro setup---how do I test the strength of my nutrient? I'm going to buy some test pens before I start the grow.

With either a ppm pen or EC pen or TDS pen.



J

jondamon said:

With either a ppm pen or EC pen or TDS pen.



J

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What is a good pen to buy? Also what should my #s be?

Meters differ in different parts of the world.

I use a
SUBOTA pH pen
BLUELAB EC TRUNCHEON.

Read the link in my signature.

Its a journal of my first run in hydro.


I explain about reservoir testing etc.


You need to read about hydro growing before diving in.


J

Great!!!

What nutrients would you suggest that I use? How do I raise the PH and lower the PH?

How often do you change your Nutrients? I intend to do a 35 day veg, would 35 days last with one use of Vega A+B or would I get better results if I change the water after day 15 and redo the water and Vega A+B then when I flower I would add Flores & Boost? after I empty the water, etc.

second question I have is, I'm using 3 gal buckets are the buckets to high for the water to flow in? or would the buckets be fine.

jondamon said:

Meters differ in different parts of the world.

I use a
SUBOTA pH pen
BLUELAB EC TRUNCHEON.

Read the link in my signature.

Its a journal of my first run in hydro.


I explain about reservoir testing etc.


You need to read about hydro growing before diving in.


J

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what do your plants yield?

I'm doing 4 plants, under 400wat light and I'm trying to get 6-8oz per plant.

That's a very high hope.

I average between 350-500g depending upon the strain I grow.

400w situated at 8" above the tops of the plants gives you around 2ft of usable light penetration.

Most new growers aim for 0.5g per watt of light they use.

You should be aiming to achieve 200g. Anything over this amount will be a bonus.

I cannot stress enough about learning hydro growing.

You monitor your reservoir for fluctuations in pH and nutrient strength EC.

When I grew in hydro I changed my water once a week and topped up once in between.

PH should be allowed to drift between 5.2-6.2 so that all nutrients can be made available to your plants.

In short, you fill your reservoir with water/nutes. Set it to feed at the desired frequency and every 24hours you test your reservoir.

So lets say you fill your res(reservoir) with Water and add your nutes to say EC1.0 pH 5.8.

If after 24 hours your EC is 1.4 and your pH is 5.4 then the plants are over feeding.

Add plain water to make the EC0.8 and re adjust the pH to 5.8.

If after another 24hours the EC is still the same but the pH has altered to 5.4 again don't worry. As long as the pH tests between 5.2-6.2 then it doesn't need to be adjusted.

I recommend hydroponic pH down solution to adjust your pH down, I recommend potassium Silicat to adjust your pH up if needed.

I reiterate what I said at the start. 6-8oz per plant from 4 plants is VERY VERY AMBITIOUS and somewhere I am not able to reach myself after 4yrs of growing.

Very few new growers achieve 1g per watt of light being used. I average 1.2g per watt.


J

So tmrw I should buy a EC an ph tester, should I upgrade my light from 400 to 600?

Should I add 2 more pots or not since it will limit my grow size and not add any extra yield?

This is as much help as I'm going to be.


I'm not going to help you now.

I've told you that you need to go and read.

Even if you choose 600w you won't achieve 6-8oz per plant.

Go away read about hydro, read about lights.


PLEASE GO AND READ



J

Will I have water issues with the 3gal pots or would i need to make water lines to go into the buckets so it fills the pots with water