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I am assuming you are talking about the Floorakleen mixed with water right? A good rule of thumb is to flush with 3x the amount of the container. I know that is a lot but you can see the results of only running 3 gallons thru your media. I would not worry about it to much just use strait water till the end should get those PPM's down some.
Don't be shy buddy, jump in and ask questions.
Also @xtsho are you using 100% coco from Blumats recommendation? I have been working with coco for several years and have recently started treating it more like hydro ( keeping it wetter than i used to).Performance has been good but i also invited fungus gnats for the first time using coco. How do you like keeping your moisture level in the coco using the Blumats? It appears to to look pretty dry in the photo. Also any concerns about not having runoff like we do when we hand water?
Hand watering I would let the top layer dry and then feed, pretty similar. Def how the roots really take off. I'll have to put up pictures tonight, I'm already getting the lil root spikes where it drips. These things are pretty cool.
Thanks @xtsho great info. That sure is a hard lesson to learn for most (more is better). Just the man way of thinking i guess. Probably why females are usually better growers. Never thought about the higher EC numbers having anything to do with cal mag deficiency. Like @macsnax i rarely go over 6-700 ppm anymore and it has taken a while to get down that low.
I've noticed much faster root growth with damp coco over wet coco. I start my seeds in small pots and then transplant them straight into three gallon fabric pots. Usually I'll see root tips poking through in about a week. That's into coco that has been soaked in a weak nutrient solution, then drained and excess water squeezed out. Once I see roots coming out the sides I start watering more and increasing the nute strength. This is for vegging when I'm hand watering. After a few weeks I move them into the flower tents, hook up the blumats, and let them take care of the watering. I just keep nutrient solution in the reservoir. Blumats sure have made things easier.
I really think everthing we want out of our plants aside from a lil bigger yield is obtainable with a lower ec, happier plants too. There's no need for 1000+ ppm unless you're trying to mass produce and don't care about quality, lol.
I know what you mean. As I walk by I check the clear tube on the res and that's about it, unless I need to add to the res. I'm trying to figure out a float valve on a bigger res to feed the main smaller res so I can leave for a week plus and not worry.
I meant to ask you that the other day. These plants are under a net now so the carrots are pretty safe, thanks man.
I am building my reservoir soon Mac can you pm me or post it here a picture of your clear tube on the reservoir . I would like to incorporate that into my build as well.
I can tonight when I get back, be about 6 hours or so.
Ya its actually pretty wild how much the growth increases
I'm running cxb3590 cobs and thats a strain I created. It's double dawg biscuits or DDB's, credit to @genuity on the strain name. It's a real nice pheno of gu's cookies n chem x purple stardawg pollen that I got from @Dankonomics_genetics. I think the purple afghani mixed with cobs is where the tight nodes are coming from. Great structure on them for sure.
This one seems to be leaning to the purple afghani side more than the others. It's actually making me wonder if I took too much off down low, lol. I hope it stretches a bit more.
I don't have that answer for you. Hopefully someone will come along that does.