You're on the right track.I finally got my ppm meter. Upon mixing up a batch of liquid nutes @ 50% recommended dosage, my ppm reading is 240.
Now everything I have read says my plants like a ppm of 1000 at this stage of life. What is that 1000 ppm based on? Considering last week I gave my plants a dose of nutes at 100% the required dose, and they got burned and went into convulsions.
I imagine I'm not supposed to mix a batch of nutes 4 1/2 times the recommended dose to get a 1000 ppm measurement. I'm lost here on how this ppm stuff works, or how to get them to the 1000 ppm.
Please enlighten me
The nute manufacturers recommend absurdly high levels of nutes. Conversely, the advice of growers on all of the forums that I read is to start nutes at 25% strength and gradually work up from there (autos are different).
We think in terms of "upping the nutes" to some desired level. That's us trying to get a plant to consume what we think it should consume.
Turn that around - let the plant show you what it wants. That sounded sorta new agey to me when I first heard it but…I'm a convert. The plants will give you feedback on how they're doing in a lot of ways. It's good to have a handle on the visuals but these document will guide you about what's going on in the res. I've attached a couple of documents that I've found very helpful.
