I bought the GH Florea Nova Grow( 7-4-10) and Bloom (4-8-7). Do I just add nutes and match the ppm to your ppm and that would give me the same amount of nutes as you use?
Sorry, I really can't help you much with GH's stuff, I've never used it. I've always thought anything more than 2-part nutes are just too complex. 3-part nutes might be highly configurable, but do you REALLY need all that monkeying around? I've seen the GH/Lucas method discussed- and I think I'd rather blow my brains out than go to that level of stuffing around. However, as you said, it stands to reason that if you mix for 1400ppm, you ought not to get in any trouble.
Also I read somewhere that h2o2 can be only added to tap water because it reacts with the nutes. How and when do you add it?
H2O2 will only react with organic based nutes. It will break down organic nutes straight away- you can watch the foaming action while it's happening, too! 'Chemical' based nutes are fine with H2O2.
When I mix a fresh tank, I fill each tank about halfway, add 125ml H2O2, then add the parts A&B of my nutes (450ml each these days) to get 1400-1560ppm per my Truncheon meter. About 10-15ml of pHDown is needed in each 125L tank (with the present pH of my tap water, 7.1 right now) to set the pH at 5.8. The nutes alone will get it to about 6.1.
al can you add a poll to see how many people are actually attempting this grow. i have followed this to a T since february and about 6 weeks from ACTUAL PERPETUAL growth. I HAVE READ ALL OF THIS THREAD AND COME BACK EVERYDAY TO FIND THE SAME QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. i would like to see how many people are actually using this info...
The problem is that the thread is SO LONG that most people don't try to read it all the way through (big ups to everyone who has put in the time & effort!). Like I've said before, I have a lot of sympathy for anyone trying to use this thread as a reference. That's the main reason I keep getting asked the same stuff over and over and over. I do answer most questions out of courtesy, but it's nice when folks have clearly put in the time to read what I have put in quite a lot of time writing- and I do notice when someone has done the backgrounding.
Over the past year, I have seen a lot of folks make mention of having a go at the perpetual SoG, but there's surely just as many lurkers, quietly reading and just doing it. To be deadly honest, it's not so important for me to know how many people have implemented my scheme. My ego's not really that overdeveloped.
I just want people to be able to run an op that makes the best use of their time and effort. I've fucked up just about everything you can fuck up in this style of op and I'm always learning something new, so there's a lot of learning curve spinouts that folks can avoid if they are paying attention. Remember that I'm a stoned slacker who could fuck up an anvil with a rubber mallet, so if there's a fuckup to be found, I've surely found it.
Im acutally on page 85 of this thread trying to read every one. This is my first time ever growing so i just wanted to clear a few things up.
And i understand that diff nutes have different feeding sheduals but my question was can i just use the same ppm and will it work?
Nutes are really small potatoes in the general scheme of things. Far FAR too much is made of nutrients in hydroponic growing. I feel particularly sad for folks who have invested fat cash in a bunch of different magic sauces, most which are of totally dubious benefit. If I had to put figures on it, I'd say that 80-90% of a good grow is conditions in the op, not the nutes.
The vast majority of what you need to do is get the lighting, ventilation and watering all right. If you set your nute strength to 1400ppm, that's all you need to do, regardless of the brand of nutes. Try the very cheapest nutes you can buy. Often, that's some house-branded sauce, mixed up in the back room at Ye Olde Hydroe Shoppe. The downside is that small batch nutes are never as consistent as those from large, well-known nute makers- but they almost certainly will work.
