BillFromBio
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Has been awhile since I've posted and I snapped a few pics the other day and decided what the hell. Anyway this is the same room/setup I had before with a few upgrades. I now am using Digilux 600w bulbs and I now have the official hydrofarm reservoirs and not the HD black and yellow totes. This has allowed me to drop the tables a few inches and set them perfectly on cinderblocks while still clearing the res.
I'm still using the Lucas formula to an extent I do modify to my own needs and to what I've noticed make a difference. I've dabbled with pretty much every part of the botanicare line of supplements and have narrowed down my feeding schedules to a much more tolerable level.
I use vitamino as directed as well as hydroguard. I have been switching between the different sweets that botanicare has offered and when I finish this bottle of citrus I will probably try the raw next. Every other week I use liquid kharma and on the weeks I don't use that I use Silica blast all by botanicare. I also have the 3 part powder from fox farm, cha-ching, beastie bloomz, and open sesame. I tested out the bloom booster that botanicare offers and I did not care for it as it is very weak and it doesn't seem to do much for the initial opening of bud sites like open sesame has to offer. Ultimately I would like to use humbolt nutrients bloom boosters but my local hydro shop ponly has 1 of the 2 parts so eh w.e.
All of that feeding schedule is during flowering, during veg I only use Vitamino, hydroguard, silica blast and the lucas formula. My formulas is as follows for those who are interested.
Grow-micro-bloom
Veg - 1-4-8 + supplements at half strength for the first week
Flower - 2-7-15 + supplements full strength (sometimes I do half depending on if I feel I should tweek the system.)
The extra grow part which I don't mind purchasing becasue I use so little makes up for the missing nitrogen mid to late flower that you see in the lucas formula. After I mix just the food during the flower stage I end up with ppm around 1100 after nutes somehwhere around 1450-1500. May be a little high but I'm working on it, besides I technically don't follow the whole lucas formula as I just add fresh water and not additional nutes until 1 week has passed. After 1 week I add either silica blast or liquid kharma whichever week I'm on plus the bloom boosters. Check ppms and add addition food if needed adjust ph wait another week adding water. Every 2 weeks I do a res change with fresh RO water.
Also these pics are of 6ish week old Critical Kush from Barneys Farm. Clones from my mother. Hope to have pics of her and the new clones plus 3 seeds from dank bud soon.
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I'm still using the Lucas formula to an extent I do modify to my own needs and to what I've noticed make a difference. I've dabbled with pretty much every part of the botanicare line of supplements and have narrowed down my feeding schedules to a much more tolerable level.
I use vitamino as directed as well as hydroguard. I have been switching between the different sweets that botanicare has offered and when I finish this bottle of citrus I will probably try the raw next. Every other week I use liquid kharma and on the weeks I don't use that I use Silica blast all by botanicare. I also have the 3 part powder from fox farm, cha-ching, beastie bloomz, and open sesame. I tested out the bloom booster that botanicare offers and I did not care for it as it is very weak and it doesn't seem to do much for the initial opening of bud sites like open sesame has to offer. Ultimately I would like to use humbolt nutrients bloom boosters but my local hydro shop ponly has 1 of the 2 parts so eh w.e.
All of that feeding schedule is during flowering, during veg I only use Vitamino, hydroguard, silica blast and the lucas formula. My formulas is as follows for those who are interested.
Grow-micro-bloom
Veg - 1-4-8 + supplements at half strength for the first week
Flower - 2-7-15 + supplements full strength (sometimes I do half depending on if I feel I should tweek the system.)
The extra grow part which I don't mind purchasing becasue I use so little makes up for the missing nitrogen mid to late flower that you see in the lucas formula. After I mix just the food during the flower stage I end up with ppm around 1100 after nutes somehwhere around 1450-1500. May be a little high but I'm working on it, besides I technically don't follow the whole lucas formula as I just add fresh water and not additional nutes until 1 week has passed. After 1 week I add either silica blast or liquid kharma whichever week I'm on plus the bloom boosters. Check ppms and add addition food if needed adjust ph wait another week adding water. Every 2 weeks I do a res change with fresh RO water.
Also these pics are of 6ish week old Critical Kush from Barneys Farm. Clones from my mother. Hope to have pics of her and the new clones plus 3 seeds from dank bud soon.
Feedback awesome.
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