I didn't see your question remember I'm new to indoor, outdoor 20+ years! I have hids, but cfls and my LEDs seem to work great. Ok ph I keep at 5.75. Water temp is a problem for us to keep at optimal temp, but it's usually around 72 highest 75%, I started with 2 stealth dwc hydro set ups, and found out soon they are way too small. So I have 2_ 8 bucket set ups, I have 3 seperate rooms, much to my sons dismay. I kicked him out of the downstairs to out 3rd bedroom, he was living like a king in the basement but I needed the cold, although half is finished, that's my clone room, I have humidity domes and propagation bubblers, I use only reverse osmosis water. We have a ton of lights, yes I have a pioneer and two hid. 800 watts not in use now, I believe they give off too much heat , my next investment we are waiting on is a chiller, to keep the water temp down, I know the debate on hids vs LEDs but I swear my plants thrive on LEDs. Especially when I give 20 minutes a day in bloom of ultraviolet rays. So nutes, that's tricky, I'm all over the place! I use general hydro series , but also use superthrive , omri thrive alive, I use great white for my benes, I also brew my own compost tea, then I use aqua shield, to begin with, started with H2o2 but switched to aqua shield and my roots are like santas beard, long beautiful white! I use house and garden roots excellerator, then I stick with general hydro nutes, I give grow-tek silica, then I use advanced nutes bud candy and kushy Kush and Canna 13/14 in bloom, I only use advanced nutes final phase when I flush. Oh I also use Calimagic, I have carbo load but I've read that it's the same thing as bud candy plus sweet leaf, on non Kush plants I use Atami bloombastic, my husband and I do our own seperate grows. I was talking to another member about defoliation that I want to do to my plants in veg, never done before, since I was used to growing in the outdoors, but I've been reading up on it and looking at yield increase I'm a believer now! I've grown outdoors most of my life, so I am new to this, I have been able to obtain a perpetual harvest, as far as air pumps I have tried several from hydrofarm to ecoplus, my problem is airstones. They work great for 3 months. But I am always replacing every 3 months, any ideas? I'm very open to any help indoors.
Shit, outdoors I use this mix I've read in high times and works great for me:
8 large bags of a high-quality organic potting soil with coco fiber and mycorrhizae (i.e., your base soil) I use roots organic as my base soil,
25 to 50 lbs of organic worm castings
5 lbs steamed bone meal
5 lbs Bloom bat guano
5 lbs blood meal
3 lbs rock phosphate
¾ cup Epson salts
½ cup sweet lime (dolomite)
½ cup azomite (trace elements)
2 tbsp powdered humic acid
I heat it up and start making around Xmas time, adding water and stirring it gets really hot! And it's tiring, I have 5 acres so I do guerrilla growing on my own land so I guess it's not really guerrilla growing, I live out in the country, so it's far away from anyone, the trouble is not water, we have a creek and use a vw bus engine to pump the water to my plants, the problem is trees, blocking the sun for a partial amount of the day,
I use Mexican bat guano during veg, and have used Peruvian or Jamaican bat guano , give them a cup a week plus additives. I use neem oil, Einstein Oil and other natural remedies, milk 1 to 10 parts for powdery mildew, powdery milk for japenese Beatles, cinnamon for ants, baking soda, etc.. The marijuana plant saver book has been a godsend. I've heard of using a system of putting in smart pots, and using a levy system to grow on top of trees to let them get more sunshine and hiding them, not there yet. I have a few ufos that I use with cfls, in veg. So you think I should use my hids also? I hate the thought of using after investing in so many LEDs. Like I said I'm open, my first crop indoors with a fuzzy logic system and Co2 got botrytis and I was devestated, this was years ago like 5, and the only plants I was able to harvest were somas A+ or Rockbud and some GDP from the original GDP seed co. I don't know where you live yet, have to check out you're profile, I'm a VIP and still don't know how to be friends with a person, hell I'm using tapatalk on my iPhone and still can't figure out how to use emoticons! But any help will be appreciated, I'm sure I left stuff out but I can't go into my grow room until 7:30 am till lights are on. And I'm interested in giving them a minute of light to extend bloom cycle, any thoughts? Any thoughts on black light also? Any help will be appreciated, and I promise not to be offended. I'm new to indoors and I'll take all advice given to heart! Thank you in advance, I know you say hids but I started with them but I did a side by side comparison and the 300 watt LEDs kicked ass! Hl
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