Dialing In MEGA CROP for Auto's

[4d-Rock]

I’ll pile on, got an Apera PH60 here. It’s really night and day for the quality and consistency of the $20 cheap meters and it. Not saying it will solve all your problems, but it provides accurate information needed to diagnose issues that pop up.

 

[NorthernLights_420]

I just planted 10 new babies tonight. The 3 in plastic tubs are old soil from my cheese plants that I unclumped all the soil and reused it. The fabric pots are all fresh soil. Biobizz light mix I use cuz I learned a little from autobeast about soil growing on here and that's what he uses. I tried the mega crop 2 part tho instead of advanced nutrients like he uses. I transitioned from dwc hydro to soil and like how easy soil growing is.

 

[NorthernLights_420]

I agree the cheap ones go bad way to fast. I’ve never used the Apera, but like that it’s waterproof and has a replaceable probe. I use the Hanna pH Tester Checker® Plus - HI98100 and have had great luck with it. For $20 I replace the probe every year, even if it doesn’t need it.

Love my bluelab combo meter! :smoking:

 

[Mañ'O'Green]

I am a cheap guy but I lost a 6 plant grow 6 weeks in due to a cheap PH pen. Seed, nutrients, electricity and time all lost. I have all High quality meters now. I maintain them and replace them regularly.

You are saving hundreds of dollars per grow by using GreenLeaf Nutrients compared to many name brand lines. Spend some of that money on quality tools.

 

[terp182]

Yeah the pH meter is the one thing you don't want to skimp on. Relying on a cheap pH meter will inevitably (and much sooner than you'd think) give you bad readings, and you'll be up your own arse looking at other things, when the whole time it was the dumb pen giving you false confidence that pH definitely isn't the thing to look at. This is why the cheap pH meters are worse than no meter.

 

[pop22]

For me, because of my shitty water, my PH meter is my most important tool. So I decided I'd scrounge up the money and buy what I considered the best, the Extech PH100. Extech is a FLIR company, and FLIR makes nothing but the best when it comes to meters of any kind. They cost about $100 U.S., you can find them for around $70. I won't use anything else! And the probe is replaceable, which mean you don't have to but a new meter everytime the probe needs replacing.

I went through more than 10 cheap pH pens... got an Apera ph60 now and don't regret how much more it cost at all... should've done it from the beginning. Invest in a good ph meter if you are going to stick to coco, and even for soil to avoid headaches.

 

[NorthernLights_420]

For me, because of my shitty water, my PH meter is my most important tool. So I decided I'd scrounge up the money and buy what I considered the best, the Extech PH100. Extech is a FLIR company, and FLIR makes nothing but the best when it comes to meters of any kind. They cost about $100 U.S., you can find them for around $70. I won't use anything else! And the probe is replaceable, which mean you don't have to but a new meter everytime the probe needs replacing.

You never tried the bluelab combo meter? I wud never use any other meter than a bluelab trusted meter. If I had to pick a 2nd cheaper brand I wud prob go with Apera

 

[pop22]

Blue Labs are very nice also, I just feel the Extech is a better meter. They make a combo meter also, but wasn't in my budget. My first two years of growing indoors were funded by my working a part time job delivering newspapers on a motor route, I'd never have been able to afford the lights etc, at that time without it. but here over 5 years later I'm still using that meter. I just recently upgraded to the PH110, which had a probe that you can refill, which greatly extends the life of the probe. Probes fail for two reasons: The fluid in them drys up, or becomes contaminated by the solutions you measure via osmosis through the thin glass within the tip. I still have the other meter in the growroom to test solutoin that has been sitting in a storage bucket.

You never tried the bluelab combo meter? I wud never use any other meter than a bluelab trusted meter. If I had to pick a 2nd cheaper brand I wud prob go with Apera

 

[Nosias]

You never tried the bluelab combo meter? I wud never use any other meter than a bluelab trusted meter. If I had to pick a 2nd cheaper brand I wud prob go with Apera

Blue Lab has always given me assurance that my readings are correct.

Here are my tools to dial it in for MC. I just wish I was smarter and ....

 

[pop22]

Got a Tesla Coil or two kicking around also??? LOL!

Blue Lab has always given me assurance that my readings are correct.

Here are my tools to dial it in for MC. I just wish I was smarter and ....
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