HotBunz
Just a dude who likes to grow
@HMR Thank you very much as well. I am learning to tweak my feeding. I use General Hydroponics Flora GROW, MICRO and BLOOM as well as GH's CaliMagic. I have Botonicare Silica and used HydroGuard on this grow. I started out at 100PPM after the tap root was a couple of inches long with the CaliMagic(Cal/Mag) since it had a 1-0-0. I feel with the MarHydro 300w old model LED starting out on a Cal/Mag does not hurt. I then use equal parts of GROW, MICRO and BLOOM while upping the amount of CaliMagic by day 10'ish or so I am up to 350+-PPM. I add the silica every couple of days at 50% rated feed. PPM and PH is checked twice a day and balanced both times. When they use more than 50PPM between feedings I then up the feeding by 50PPM i.e. I let the plant tell me how much she wants. I feel you want to just keep her on the edge of being hungry. My last Sour Crack was wanting up to 1,200PPM at one point. This Cherry Bomb did not ask for more than 850. Listen to your girls and they will tell you what they want. It's almost instant. With soil if you are feeding to much by the time she shows you her displeasure the damage is done and you spend a week back peddling with flushing etc. I stopped using GROW with this plant at around day 40 I think. The MICRO and CaliMagic has more than enough Nitrogen to cover her needs. Once I switch to "flowering" I move to a 1 to 3 ratio of MICRO to BLOOM. I add the Cal/Mag and then balance with MICRO and BLOOM. I have only done a couple of complete bucket changes this whole grow and frankly everything seemed much more stable than weekly changes like my first DWC grow.
