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bobqp

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Nughead78 said:
What 0.33grams of sodium per litre? And powerfeed is trash? Ok lol. I've grown large outdoor crops of bushies using only the 2 fertilisers i mentioned and got 10-15 ounces per plant. I don't think its all that bad mate. Maybe u don't own chooks and grow outdoors,

Yes ive grown in coco before 25% canna coco 75%soil. As for flushing I let the rain do that and im not sure about cec I don't know the tech stuff like that im just a Sunshine n rainwater type grower these days but hey nature works.All good,im not up to speed with the latest goodies but I do use bud candy and big bud during the flowering stage
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Nothing wrong with cheap fertilizers. Grown 12 foot plants with powerfeed green bottle.
 
reza92

reza92

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Nughead78 said:
What 0.33grams of sodium per litre? And powerfeed is trash? Ok lol. I've grown large outdoor crops of bushies using only the 2 fertilisers i mentioned and got 10-15 ounces per plant. I don't think its all that bad mate. Maybe u don't own chooks and grow outdoors,
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It’s 3.2 grams per litre which isn’t a small amount. Also it’s the main element present in the entire conctrate. Might as well just add some table salt to tap water and you’d probably be better off.

also 10-15 ounces per plant outdoor is rookie numbers. Gotta pump them numbers up. Maybe a better nutrient regime would help.
 
reza92

reza92

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Aussieaceae said:
That makes a lot of sense thanks saffa. i appreciate the exchange very much.
Has this any relation to Brownian Motion?

If the salinity of the nutrient solution was higher than that of the coco coir, and in a DTW approach. Do you think it would have the potential to collect sodium from the coir on the way through?
Not as a base. But maybe a useful flushing solution. Periodically, if it was immediately followed by your base nutrient?

Would it help dissolve the salt better and make it easier to drain?
If also taking into account sodium's own effects on osmosis? And immediately followed by your base feed?

Irrelevant questions and situation to the grow in question now. But it made me really curious about it.
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it would transfer sodium from the higher solution into the lower solution medium to try and equal out. What your describing is reverse osmosis and isn’t an easy process to carry out. Better off just flushing with nutrient solution.
 
Saffasteve

Saffasteve

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Aussieaceae said:
That makes a lot of sense thanks saffa. i appreciate the exchange very much.
Has this any relation to Brownian Motion?

If the salinity of the nutrient solution was higher than that of the coco coir, and in a DTW approach. Do you think it would have the potential to collect sodium from the coir on the way through?
Not as a base. But maybe a useful flushing solution. Periodically, if it was immediately followed by your base nutrient?

Would it help dissolve the salt better and make it easier to drain?
If also taking into account sodium's own effects on osmosis? And immediately followed by your base feed?

Irrelevant questions and situation to the grow in question now. But it made me really curious about it.
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Those kinds of questions are above my pay grade. From my experience with growing in coco using a handful of different methods I don't think you should need to go to such lengths flushing. When I first started using it in the late 00's I was taught to feed till 10% run off and flush every 2 weeks with straight water, but now I feed multiple (up to 10 x a day) with minimal run off , never flush unless necessary and then if I do I use 1/4 strength base nutrients. It's a better idea to concentrate on preventing buildup rather than worry about flushing. House and Garden drip clean used correctly will totally prevent salt buildup while saving you from having to have large amounts of run off.
I like to run high humidity and lower E.C feeds aswell
 
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Nughead78

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reza92 said:
It’s 3.2 grams per litre which isn’t a small amount. Also it’s the main element present in the entire conctrate. Might as well just add some table salt to tap water and you’d probably be better off.

also 10-15 ounces per plant outdoor is rookie numbers. Gotta pump them numbers up. Maybe a better nutrient regime would help.
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No its 0.33 grams per litre. And nearly a pound per plant is rookie numbers? Ok mate. Last year I had 137 ozs off my 10 plants so 13.7 oz average. Not too bad imo
 
reza92

reza92

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Nughead78 said:
No its 0.33 grams per litre. And nearly a pound per plant is rookie numbers? Ok mate. Last year I had 137 ozs off my 10 plants so 13.7 oz average. Not too bad imo
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no it’s definitely 3.3grams. 3300mg=3.3g. It’s literally written on the analysis posted before

to prove the point here’s the analysis for powerfeed
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yeah powerfeed has an npk value but it’s a trash ratio and it’s got fuck all in the way of macros other than sodium. Ie salty trash. FYI powerfeed has 3.9 grams per litre.
 
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Nughead78

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Saffasteve said:
Both plants are starting to eat their lower leaves and they are still a while from beginning to flower so don't go giving yourself too much of a pat on the back
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No lower leaves getting eaten dont know where u getting that from.lol and obviously nowhere near flower yet.
 
reza92

reza92

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Nughead78 said:
No lower leaves getting eaten dont know where u getting that from.lol and obviously nowhere near flower yet.
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he’s getting it from the pictures you posted where you can literally see the difference in colour from the top of the plant to the bottom.

the plants don’t look trash I will admit but they definitely don’t look stunning either.
 
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