Nutrients Feeding with biobizz ppm?

[StevOrganic]

Hi guys I’m sure that some of you will be able to answer my question basically from around day 17 or so I started to water and started adding feed from around day 21-22. I soaked pot initially that’s why not watered until day 17.

I started with 150ml then gradually increased to 250, 350, 500, 600 etc.. just yesterday I fed with 2 litres and got some run off which came out 2000+ ppm

Obviously for the first number of feeds there was no run off due to the amount of feed given each time so this accumulated in the soil hence the high ppm run off when enough water to cause run off is given. Is this normal and if not how do you avoid this happening because the plant doesn’t need more water when still quite small?

 

[bad dragon bzzz]

Ec, ppm, tds.... Same kinda thing. They all work the same ish way. A electrical charge measuring the total dissolved solids.
How are you filtering the runoff to ensure not one single partical of soil is in runoff sample?

 

[StevOrganic]

Ec, ppm, tds.... Same kinda thing. They all work the same ish way. A electrical charge measuring the total dissolved solids.
How are you filtering the runoff to ensure not one single partical of soil is in runoff sample?

Ah ok I’m a dummy I wasn’t filtering the soil at all what I will do with the next feed is filter the run off with a cheese cloth and see if that changes things.

It’s just I seen the very end of the tips of the leaves with that yellow nute burn but it is very minimal you’d have to be right up close to the plant to see it and I have only got as far as 1ml per litre grow so thought nutes may be building up too much. I’ll just give a lighter feed solution the next couple waters and get a little run off just to bring down levels to be safe. Looking good and healthy otherwise

 

[bad dragon bzzz]

Growing is part way between a science and a black art to me. Overwatering and underwater ING look almost the same but opposite.
Put it through a coffee filter and numbers likely to fall again. The tip is the growi g part, often a touch lighter.is it yellow or brown? Again can be a tricky one. If the leaf ain't dark green, it may not be tip burn.
Biobizz soil has practically nothing I. It, 1ml of biobizz feed, is next to nothing.

 

[StevOrganic]

Growing is part way between a science and a black art to me. Overwatering and underwater ING look almost the same but opposite.
Put it through a coffee filter and numbers likely to fall again. The tip is the growi g part, often a touch lighter.is it yellow or brown? Again can be a tricky one. If the leaf ain't dark green, it may not be tip burn.
Biobizz soil has practically nothing I. It, 1ml of biobizz feed, is next to nothing.

Great info man thanks I’m obviously overthinking it all just want my plants to turn out the best possible Cool will try the coffee filter thing out of curiosity to see what the ppm comes out at.

Ah ok it’s just a yellow colour so probably not nutes causing it at all I am only upto 1ml grow, 1ml alga mic, 2ml heaven and 1ml topmax which is barely anything just keeping the nutes a little lower for first couple weeks feeding as they are looking very healthy then up the nutes when they get abit bigger.

 

[bad dragon bzzz]

I know a chap who's colourblind.uses the "just keep the tips burnt a lil smidge" growing method.
Some folk can burn a plant in plain soil no nuts. Biobizz soil is as weak as they come. Biobizz nuts are known for being mild. That's not to say I haven't burnt the shite out a something.
But not so early with such a small feed.

 

[Service67]

Hi guys I’m sure that some of you will be able to answer my question basically from around day 17 or so I started to water and started adding feed from around day 21-22. I soaked pot initially that’s why not watered until day 17.

I started with 150ml then gradually increased to 250, 350, 500, 600 etc.. just yesterday I fed with 2 litres and got some run off which came out 2000+ ppm

Obviously for the first number of feeds there was no run off due to the amount of feed given each time so this accumulated in the soil hence the high ppm run off when enough water to cause run off is given. Is this normal and if not how do you avoid this happening because the plant doesn’t need more water when still quite small?

In case someone comes accross this again. I had exactly the same issue on every plant between 2 and 3 weeks. Fed very little nutes. Didn't matter, ended up with lock out or burnt leaves. Chucked more nutes at it, after a couple of weeks situation cleared up. Measured ppm run off when it happend, ec reading of 2500 plus. This in bio bizz light. Came to conclusion that as I wasn't using tap water, microbes were reaching a critical mass, where they ate and shit out minerals all at once, making the spil too hot. If fed tap water, chloromin/chlorine would restrict microbial growth, so this high ppm run off may not occur. Any way, my answer was to always water and then feed, with a large amount of run off. This prevents the lock out or nutrient burn. Once the ppm in the run off gets below 1000, all is fine. Its like flushing at 3 weeks, with a large amount of water and correct nutes, but a weak feed, ppm not exceeding 450ppm. Flushes out plant, but leaves it with correct level of nutes. Normally takes 2 such flush feeds to sort.

 

[Service67]

Forgot to add. If you don't feed/water with any run off, you are constantly increasing mineral content, particularly the ones the plant doesn't wamt/need, eg iron. Feeding/watering with a decent amount of run off, resets correct mineral content each time.