Nutrients Bigg Al does Prescription Blend, Sweet Seed and Fast Buds

[Bigg Al]

So here we are on day 9 and all looking good. Still on the same mix for the girls.

Temps are 82 and RH is 43

 

[Bigg Al]

Day 14 for the ladies!!

Water source:
RO ppms were 22

Week 1 veg
2 ml Bio-Si
5 ml core A&B
2 ml Kelp-Ful
2 ml Precursor
The ph was 6.07 and I up it to

And ppms was

The girls roots had hit the bottom of the cup so was transplanted into their final home. So watering around the side is much easier!!

All going good so far!!

 

[Waira]

right on Al, nice strain choices! Sweet Nurse is mostly BCD right? Their Honey Peach CBD is a gem, I got rich pleasant aromatics on her, one of the best of the whole season.... These girls are off to a solid start!
Oooo, that SF-1000 is talking naughty to me,... I've been interested in trying a Q-board to cover the tent's middle zone, and use AutoCOB's to work the ends/corners,... A good bargain at that price!
What are you using to raise pH? Have a peek at the last page or two of 'Sky's thread, the rep' is sharing some good and important tips about the sequence of what parts to mix into solution -

 

[Bigg Al]

right on Al, nice strain choices! Sweet Nurse is mostly BCD right? Their Honey Peach CBD is a gem, I got rich pleasant aromatics on her, one of the best of the whole season.... These girls are off to a solid start!
Oooo, that SF-1000 is talking naughty to me,... I've been interested in trying a Q-board to cover the tent's middle zone, and use AutoCOB's to work the ends/corners,... A good bargain at that price!
What are you using to raise pH? Have a peek at the last page or two of 'Sky's thread, the rep' is sharing some good and important tips about the sequence of what parts to mix into solution -

Thank you sir!! Yes, sweet nurse is cbd. It's for my wife. I've read everything from all people who is using Prescription Blend even saw the video. Here is what I'm using

Been using it from the beginning!!

Thanks!

 

[Bigg Al]

whoa Al! Is it an ion exchange type, as in the ones that use a crazy strong saline solution to "recharge" the exchange beads? If so, I strongly advise not using it,... the problem is when the mineral ions bind to the beads, they displace a weaker ion off of them, Na or K depending on what salt they use (if it's a service deal) or yourself... Na is toxic at low levels, seen soft water kill many plants at peoples homes and they thought it was their brown thumbs causing it! For K, that's not an issue, but with all the inputs of K from the nutes, there's definite potential for antagonistic and/or toxic effects,...
Have you measured the ppm of your tap?... ion exchange doesn't lower the ppm, it's just pulling out the CaCO3 mainly,....

@Bigg Al, Waira is correct here and that there are several kinds of systems and it depends on the counter ion that is used to exchange for carbonate hardness. Bottom line is that it sounds like you have been doing this for a while so if it has been working for you... then it works, not much else to say. If you look at the system you use/the softener you should be able to tell what the counter ion is. The only thing I have to add is that while Waira is correct that ion exchange will not lower the Total disolved solids as the exchange is based on electronic charge but it could read differently on your PPM meter because this measures conductivity and infers a TDS measurement. Different types of ions in solution with identical charge will read differently due to molecular interactions that shield the electronic charge, this is related to the "salt index".

library:articles:salt_index_calculation - Spectrum Analytic

www.spectrumanalytic.com

As far as the video, I can't say for sure if they use a softener but I assume its tap water. You could ask the video poster by using the comment section on his video, I know that Bill likes to share info and help fellow growers so my guess it that you'll get a response.

I dont want to jack his thread so I move the questions over to my thread. I'm so glad that I asked, but I dont use my tap water for my plants at all. Knew from when I started growing that my water was way to hard. Here is the ppms and ph of my water.

Everything is high in my water.

 

[Prescription Blend]

@Bigg Al probably right to move it over here, and yes that water is VERY hard. Depending on what your water softener is or if you can draw off water before the softener you might be able to mix some of your tap with some RO. If it was closer to 200-250 and doesn't use a sodium or chloride softener you could try it out but it might not be worth taking the risk until you try it on a plant or two.

 

[Waira]

I dont want to jack his thread so I move the questions over to my thread. I'm so glad that I asked, but I dont use my tap water for my plants at all. Knew from when I started growing that my water was way to hard. Here is the ppms and ph of my water.

oy! that's loaded alright,.... Al, is that pre-treated water (like from a line that bypassed the softener) or post softened?

I do the same thing that brother PB here suggests, I mix unsoftened tap with RO or some other low ppm water. Those self fill machines are a nice way to go, cheaper than buying Di water! I try to get the water ppm's to about 150, leaving me more wiggle room for both Ca-Mg and nutes...

@Prescription Blend thank you for your help and info mate, it's rare that we get a nute rep' here at all, much less one that's got the Goods!

 

[Bigg Al]

oy! that's loaded alright,.... Al, is that pre-treated water (like from a line that bypassed the softener) or post softened?

I do the same thing that brother PB here suggests, I mix unsoftened tap with RO or some other low ppm water. Those self fill machines are a nice way to go, cheaper than buying Di water! I try to get the water ppm's to about 150, leaving me more wiggle room for both Ca-Mg and nutes...

@Prescription Blend thank you for your help and info mate, it's rare that we get a nute rep' here at all, much less one that's got the Goods!

I'll be using RO water and distilled water!! That's what I've been using anyway.

Thanks!!

 

[Bigg Al]

Day 20

Water Source RO

Week 2 veg mix
2 ml Bio-Si
5 ml core A & B
2 ml Kelp-Ful
2 ml Precursor

Ph was

Raised it to

Ppms was

I have to say that one likes it and one dont.
Sweet Nurse likes it

And the BlackBerry doesn't

Seems like too much nitrogen, got the leaves curing down. @Waira what you think? Both on same mix.

 

[Waira]

Was BB is lower light? It could be a pheno thing, that odd low branching stretchy build seems to pop up now and again,....