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[Sauce Boss]

Wow so I forgot to fill everyone in on the mini fiasco that I had with my hanna pen. I asked the roommate about the pen, when it started acting funny, ect ect. he said shortly after he left it floating in the 5 gal bucket of water. GRRR! Sometimes I wonder how people can be so brain dead. He used it like this with the default settings that it reverted back to for about 4 days. Anywho, from the time I get home and find all of this out, I let it sit out and dry for about 72 hours. I then continued to use it and it was acting funny on me. After taking about 5 min to get my readings, I would turn it off and let it continue to dry out.

It resumed normal operation after that minus the fact that it restored all factory settings. That consisted of me having to change the temps from C back to F, and the PH and PPM conversion. I wasn't aware though that there was an EC conversion, which will throw off my PPM if not set correctly. I was set at .5 conversion when it should of been at .7. Doh! That means for about 8 days following the day I left last week, I have been running about 1000ppm's, if not more. I come back, flush, put about 1000ppms more back in it! The conversion was showing me 800ppms the whole time.

If you recall, I flushed again, which was 3 days ago, and set the ppm to 550 and ec to 1.1, or so I thought, because even then it was still at .5 conversion. So this morning when I find all of this out and re calibrate the stick, I figure that I am running these now accurate #'s

PH - 5.95
EC - 1.1
PPM - 760
Water Temp - 71.2

Finally, the issue has been resolved! And best yet, I can actually see it in the bud growth already!

I am still pondering whether or not to lower the PPM's more or if the dominance of the indica can handle it at this point in growth, given they've all been beat up pretty good.

Sorry if the story is poorly constructed and dates/times/data doesn't 100% correlate, I'm kinda stoned on some hash.

 

[The Medicine Man]

Ya know, I really thought early on that you were at a .7 conversion on your meter, and then it turned into a .5 conversion, which I couldn't figure out. Sucks to hear the story, but glad it's all gettin' sorted for you.

 

[Sauce Boss]

Yes, I think it was you medicine man that mentioned that and I just read over it this morning and ran over to check it out, and low n behold. Thanks for the tip, wish I would of seen it sooner but sometimes you miss a few replies when they're flying in one after another.

 

[The Medicine Man]

Yea, I hear ya! The sites picked up so much traffic in the last few months it's real hard for me to keep up on everything.

 

[Truu]

Lookin good in there man! I'll be checking in.

 

[Sauce Boss]

If it isn't one thing after another, I swear! I get up this morning at 8am to do the usual, check all the stats and adjust if necessary. I grab my hanna pen to do my water tests and it says "off". Boggled, I start tinkering with it to try and clear it and nothing. I am now on the prowl for a mini screwdriver to take the batteries out and let it clear, in hopes that this will resolve the issue. I will be contacting Hanna today as well.

 

[BuddyLove]

there is just about nothin worse than having any type of trouble with your grow meters. it always happens when you just can't live without it, and need it now! hope it's just something you can quick fix, and get on with the important things...like caring for your plants. geez, i hate when those things happen. happy harvesting.

If it isn't one thing after another, I swear! I get up this morning at 8am to do the usual, check all the stats and adjust if necessary. I grab my hanna pen to do my water tests and it says "off". Boggled, I start tinkering with it to try and clear it and nothing. I am now on the prowl for a mini screwdriver to take the batteries out and let it clear, in hopes that this will resolve the issue. I will be contacting Hanna today as well.

 

[Sauce Boss]

Yup, Here's the deal now. I have to keep the battery cover off of the device, and put the 4 batteries in everytime I need to take a reading, then turn the device off, and remove the batteries for storage. Sent an email over to the company I got the tool from, awaiting a response.

As for the ladies, not really noticing any development, maybe because I see them all day every day?

Had this game-plan in mind.

Gonna flush this Thursday, replacing with base nutes (heavier on part B), bud candy, a lil sensical, and a sensible ammount of overboost.(making sure not to cause any lockout or toxicity like before with the busted conversion factor on the hanna pen) Run the system for 10 days, flush with water for 12 hours, flush again with Final Phase, let that run for 12 hours, then flush again with plain water and let it run like that till harvest.

That will put me on flush by Jan 22nd. Give it a 10-14 day flush, that puts me at about February 3rd-5th, or 12 weeks of age considering they rooted on November 5th.

eh?






Morning stats

Air temp : 79-81
Water temp : 77 (lost my ice bottles)
PH : 5.80 - 6.00
PPM: 767
EC : 1.1
Humidity - 55-60%
Light Cycle - 18 on / 6 off

 

[littlebopeep]

Yup, Here's the deal now. I have to keep the battery cover off of the device, and put the 4 batteries in everytime I need to take a reading, then turn the device off, and remove the batteries for storage. Sent an email over to the company I got the tool from, awaiting a response.

As for the ladies, not really noticing any development, maybe because I see them all day every day?

Had this game-plan in mind.


Gonna flush this Thursday, replacing with base nutes (heavier on part B), bud candy, a lil sensical, and a sensible ammount of overboost.(making sure not to cause any lockout or toxicity like before with the busted conversion factor on the hanna pen) Run the system for 10 days, flush with water for 12 hours, flush again with Final Phase, let that run for 12 hours, then flush again with plain water and let it run like that till harvest.

That will put me on flush by Jan 22nd. Give it a 10-14 day flush, that puts me at about February 3rd-5th, or 12 weeks of age considering they rooted on November 5th.

eh?






Morning stats

Air temp : 79-81
Water temp : 77 (lost my ice bottles)
PH : 5.80 - 6.00
PPM: 767
EC : 1.1
Humidity - 55-60%
Light Cycle - 18 on / 6 off

yeah the flushing sounds about on time Im starting to flush mine today as finaly she is starting to brown off at day 80 looking to crop at around day 90 nearly 13 weeks nice plants though
why are you messing around with the a/b balance ?

 

[Sauce Boss]

Scorn me if I am wrong, but the A is, if I'm not mistaken (and too lazy to go look) a 5-0-4 of NPK and the part B is 0-5-4, which I would need more of the P and K right now than than the N anyway, no?