Anybody Deep Water Culture use Botanicare Nutes from StealthHydro? I just bought them in a kit. It included 8oz bottles of PureBlendPro Grow & Bloom, Liquid Karma, Clearex, Cal-Mag, and Sweet, along with a PH kit of PH Up, PH Down, and 80 test strips. Sounded like a good deal but I just found out you can not use H2O2 with organic nutes. Which means I will not be able to follow Rosemans 8 Step Recovery procedure using H2O2. Is there a substitute for the H2O2 that stills follows the 8 Step Recovery procedure, or is there a different procedure I can follow if I need to? I like to be prepared. (maybe I shouldn't have bought the organic nutes - but I have them now so...)
Any Deep Water Culture using Botanicare Nutes?
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mule
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One of the best, and most likely the only use for adding H202 is algae. It might add some o2 also??? So keep your res light proof, and the heat in the res below 70*,and your PH down around 5.6-5.8 all of those things will aid in keeping algae away!!!
I use AN voodoo juice... No H202 allowed! I have burnt my plants with nutes, had algae, and a ton of other crap happen... I change the water, PH it, make it 60* and leave the nutes out... And run it for a few days... No H202!
And my plants are thriving!
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Sorry but I need to add this... Be aware of your plants! Look at all aspects of them 2 times at least daily! Roots, leaves, stems... If you can notice small changes before the become big problems it helps... Use all your senses! Indoor growing is not a hands off experience!!!
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A+ Stuff man I used the Karma and CalMag
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TheAnswer1776
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I use the full Botanicare line and I use Weedhounds Feeding Shedule, with great success! Here it is:
I maintain a ph from 5.6-6.2 all the way through my grow..
Starting about week two I generally give them 2tsp (10ml/gal) of 3% H202 every OTHER day until I put them into flower....then I switch to Cannazyme.
I germ seeds in rapid rooters....generally 4-7 days until I see a taproot coming out the bottom, then they go into the w/f system with higromite rocks, RO water and a drop of Superthrive per gallon (my waterfarms generally have about 2 gals water in them)
under mh bulb 400 watts....fairly high up at first...about 2 feet and brought down slowly over time. I start counting time from the day I put them in the system....not the day they germ.
Week 1: I use Pro Grow and CalMag at a 50/50 ratio through veg ALWAYS. I put in 100 ppms ProGrow and 100ppm CalMag.
Depending upon how they do I will add about 50 more ppm of each the third or fourth day into the week, keeping ppms from 200-300 over the course of the week.
Week 2: 150 ppms/each CalMag/ProGrow plus 1ml/gallon Liquid Karma. ppms 300-350...again adding 1 extra ml/gal LK midweek if all looks good (ppms about 350-375)
It's also about this time I start using the VHO (three sets of true leaves) according the directions on the bottle as a foliar spray. I spray them with it daily, then turn the strong light off and let them dry with a fan before I turn lights back on. I'll use the VHO up until 10 days into blooming.
Week 3 CalMag/ProGrow 200ppms apiece plus 2ml/gal LK plus 1ml Sweet for the 2 gallons. ppms 400-450. About day 4, another ml of Sweet......ppms 450-ish.
Week 4: CalMag and Pro Grow/250ppm apiece plus 3ml/gal LK and 2ml/gal Sweet. Again...up Sweet by 1 ml gallon during week. ppms 500-600. I usually top them once during week 4 as well.
Week 5: CalMag and Pro Grow 300ppms each. 4ml/gal LK and 3ml gal Sweet.......adding 1ml/gal Sweet midweek. ppms 600-700.
I usually turn them in week 6.
Week one in bloom; Cal Mag and Pro Grow 400ppms apiece. 4ml/gal MK and 4ml/gal Sweet. I also start Cannazyme at the beginning of bloom at 5ml/gallon and keep it at this dosage until flushing. On the first full day of bloom I spray DutchMaster Reverse (with Penetrator)to help prevent hermies. Ppms 800-900
Week 2 Bloom: Cal Mag 400ppms plus Pro Boom 500ppms and 4ml/gal of LK and Sweet both. ppms between 1000-1100
Day 10 Bloom: Second Reverse Dose according to directions on bottle.
Week 3: CalMag 400ppms, Pro Grow 600ppms, 4ml/gal both LK and Sweet. ppms between 1100-1200.
Week 4: I start the bloom enhancer at a 50/50 ratio with my bloom nutes:
CalMag 400ppm
Hydroplex 350ppm
Pro Bloom 350 ppm
Lk./Sweet 4ml/gal ppms....between 1200-1300
Week 5:
CalMag.......300ppm
Hydroplex 350
Pro Bloom 350
Lk and Sweet......7ml/gal. The number comes up under 1400ppms and I don't go above that.,...I actually try to keep things at around 1375-ish.
That's pretty much where things stay until flush time....and that changes depending on what I'm growing.
Adding and changing the solutions frequently are things that I've found seem to really help the plants grow well. Generally I'll drain some of the older nute solution out and toss it whehever I make some sort of change in the nutes etc....generally about twice a week. Towards week 5 and on Ill be adding several gallons of full strengh nute solutions every day or so and that helps keep things in balance as well.
With RH I was taught to always aim for the 30% and I try very hard to stick with that.
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Thanks for that, really trying to get the whole ppm thing figured out. I bought a TDS pen. Looks like my 8oz bottles aren't going to be enough for the grow.
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Thanks for that, really trying to get the whole ppm thing figured out. I bought a TDS pen. Looks like my 8oz bottles aren't going to be enough for the grow.
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Honestly I do not use H2o2 or Cannazyme, as I have never had any issues, while using distilled water. With the nutes, I just add small amounts untill the proper PPM is achieved, I don't think I ever really measured! RH is relative humidity, not sure why he added that onto his feeding schedule. Best of luck to you on your grow!
