cyco nutes in dwc ph question

k_elliott99 · Mar 12, 2015

Hey riu!
I am on my second grow in dwc under 1000w hps and I am using cyco nutrients. My first grow was with technaflora and did fine. Although on this grow im 25ish days into flower and the two plants which are bubblegum xl and blue cheese they seem to be taking in tons of water. Upwards of 5l per day! On top of that, when I change my water I ph it down to 5.8 and when I check it the next day its back up to 6.6. Is this a normal thing whit cyco ph rising. Thanks in advance fellas!

nomofatum · Mar 12, 2015

Do you have a PPM meter/reading? And a RH and Temp for day and night in there?

k_elliott99 · Mar 12, 2015

nomofatum said:
Do you have a PPM meter/reading? And a RH and Temp for day and night in there?

Yes ppm are constant 1150 rh is 42%-50% day to night and temp 68-78 day to night! I wasnt sure if cyco was just like that normally with their nutes! Im very happy just the ph is silly

nomofatum · Mar 12, 2015

k_elliott99 said:
Yes ppm are constant 1150 rh is 42%-50% day to night and temp 68-78 day to night! I wasnt sure if cyco was just like that normally with their nutes! Im very happy just the ph is silly

I'm running 3 different nutes right now, well make that more like 2.5 now. I normally run MaxiGro/MaxiBloom, but decided to try DynaGro and Jack's pro hydro at the same time along with MaxiGro/Bloom.

PH of MaxiGro/Bloom is by far the most steady. Jack's swung around at first, but stabilized. DynaGro swung around wildly at first then slowed, but still swings much faster than Jack's or MaxiGro/Bloom. Interestingly I had 2 solo DWC buckets going between DynaGro and MaxiGrow/Bloom. I just topped them off with the left overs from topping off the two larger systems, the mix of MaxiGrow/Bloom and DynaGro did awesome, best of the plants in the room.

I started adding some MaxiBloom + Calcium Nitrate to the DynaGro plants and they have really responded, catching up a bit with the Maxi side. Jack's is in another room with different plants and different cycle so can't be compared really, but it's doing fairly well.

The PH swings are at least partially your nutrients fault, the drinking isn't too insane, but you should try bumping up the PPM if you haven't seen any burn yet, it may help reduce the drinking if it's just the plant trying to pull more nutes.

I'm running 1400 PPM on all 3 and none of the strains take more than the tiniest burn.

k_elliott99 · Mar 12, 2015

nomofatum said:
I'm running 3 different nutes right now, well make that more like 2.5 now. I normally run MaxiGro/MaxiBloom, but decided to try DynaGro and Jack's pro hydro at the same time along with MaxiGro/Bloom.

PH of MaxiGro/Bloom is by far the most steady. Jack's swung around at first, but stabilized. DynaGro swung around wildly at first then slowed, but still swings much faster than Jack's or MaxiGro/Bloom. Interestingly I had 2 solo DWC buckets going between DynaGro and MaxiGrow/Bloom. I just topped them off with the left overs from topping off the two larger systems, the mix of MaxiGrow/Bloom and DynaGro did awesome, best of the plants in the room.

I started adding some MaxiBloom + Calcium Nitrate to the DynaGro plants and they have really responded, catching up a bit with the Maxi side. Jack's is in another room with different plants and different cycle so can't be compared really, but it's doing fairly well.

The PH swings are at least partially your nutrients fault, the drinking isn't too insane, but you should try bumping up the PPM if you haven't seen any burn yet, it may help reduce the drinking if it's just the plant trying to pull more nutes.

I'm running 1400 PPM on all 3 and none of the strains take more than the tiniest burn.

Great thanks for tje input! I was thinking about bumping it uo to 1400 sunday on the water change day! At 1200 I see no burn! Im really excited about this grow! Thanks again

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