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Hey everyone - hope all is well and green for y'all
OK, following earlier, solid advice and encouragement from SwiftGT and others, I picked up PPM and PH meters. (Thanks, LHL for correcting the link, yeah, nice price, very fast service. I love competence
Anyway, tonight I calibrated both tools, and with feeding of my babies necessary, I took copious notes! I had fun doing this, being all scientific and such... cuz' I'm pretty much a fly (ride!) by the seat of my pants kinda guy - lol But, precision is important here, I realize.
I don't wanna pretend that I understand the implications here at all, but here are my notes below. I'd be very grateful to you guys 'n gals for interpretation here, what are the implications of these numbers? What am I doing right? What am I doing wrong?
Here's what I measured and did tonight:
My tap water after sitting for several days in a clean gallon milk jug: 7.9 PH. Happily, I had some "PH Down" and made this go to 6.0 - did I err here?
I have my tap water (rated second best in the nation in the NYT a year or two ago) in gallon milk jugs and w/ 12 plants I need almost three of these. I watered these bad-boyz-girlz w/ 20-24 oz nutrient-rich solution made up of 1 tsp GH Flora Grow, Micro & Bloom, plus 1 tsp of Dyna Grow Liquid Bloom. This solution revealed the following numbers:
With PH adjusted in jug 1, I had a PPM reading of 841. I applied this carefully to the following plants until I realized run-off. This is what I then got in PPM:
Satori 1 - 201
Satori 2 - 381
Satori 3 - 167
Bagseed 1 - 181
Bagseed 2 - 167
The second jug of nute solution gave me this new PPM: 778
So I used this to water the next groups of plants and got these results in my measurements:
Speed Queen 1 - 153
Speed Queen 1 - 201
Speed Queen 1 - 292
Now, here are some interesting (and low-ish) numbers from my White Widows - three of whom were FIM'd already because they were growing TOO fast!
WW 1 - 152
WW 1 - 065 - ***?
WW 1 - 110
WW 1 - 076 - this one was fed w/ a new jug of water/solution w/ an initial PPM of 865
I have not noted any pre-flowers, so no clue as to gender yet. Here are some pics before watering them tonight.
Also, here's a couple pics of my Cooltube setup for my 400W lamp I intend t use in my 30"x 20"x60" flowering closet. The two screws you see are to tweak the positioning of the lamp so it's centered in the tube. I'll prolly need a reflector, I figure cardboard and Mylar for the time being... love that
umbrella reflector that LHL picked up recently though!
Cheers everyone and thanks for helping me out!