Growing Without Bloom Nutes By Farside05

Only issue I got right now is I have nothing but tap water. The RO system is down, no distilled either. The RO system has a very tiny leak. Haven't chased it down yet. Just shut the system down. Used to be anal and water plants with the RO. Now it's just for human consumption. The plants get tap out of the tub faucet. The wife may be hiding some CPAP water around here if I can locate it.
 
Bulk Reef Supply has cheap RO units. I just replaced mine a week ago. It too sprung a leak after about 7 faithful years of service. $165 shipped and it arrived in about 4 days. 75 GPD, RO/DI.
 
Bulk Reef Supply has cheap RO units. I just replaced mine a week ago. It too sprung a leak after about 7 faithful years of service. $165 shipped and it arrived in about 4 days. 75 GPD, RO/DI.

Mine is an iSpring. I will say, their service is pretty damn good. First issue I had with it, they sent replacement parts for free, and that was like 2 years in, well past any warranty. Last issue I had, I paid for parts. They are in Atlanta, so I can get parts next day for regular shipping prices. The system is probably 5 years old now.
 
I think I'm going to flip the vegging girls in the AM. Was gonna wait till the other tent was harvested, but that may be a week, and these vegging girls might outgrow my spaces if left to veg that long. Once I do get the 3x3 free, I'll move the Gelato and Zkittlez in there and start some autos in the smaller tent. Looking at the seed inventory I'm considering:

Strawberry Cheesecake
Purple Lemonade
Gorilla Glue
Brooklyn Sunrise


 
Got stuck with that mandatory overtime today that I got out of on Thursday. Came home and gave the flowering girls a rinse and feed. 2 gallons of tap followed by a gallon of nute water. Almost forgot, but then remembered to change the timer and flip the vegging girls.
 
Came home this AM and went to verify the new timer settings were working. They were. Pulled out the Zkittlez to readjust their top ties, found all the plants were in need of a drink. I figured that would be tomorrow. Oh well, they all got 2gal of 6g MC strength feed.


Put the macro lens on the cell phone for some bud porn shots of the two Purple Urkles.





 
Strawberry Cheesecake
That gets my vote! Had some recently. Delicious. Very good stoney stone... very evocative of old school and skunky tastes. Like very. Took me back to high school, and that was a pretty long time ago. HH had the same experience. Nice happy effect but sleep comes pretty quickly, so if you like that then it’s a winner. It’s been a winner for me. I gave a buddy a seed for it and some buds came back to me. I’d be toking it more often if I had more.
 
The "what I'm considering" for the upcoming auto grow is actually 1 seed of 4 different strains. A bunch of leftovers where I had 3 packs of seeds and grew 2. Of the leftovers, the Strawberry Cheesecake and Purple Lemonade were probably the best received. We've been on a bit of an all things Cheese strain related kick as of late.
 
Was playing around tonight at work, crunching some numbers and looking at fertilizer ingredients. Pretty sure I'm not going to travel this path, but for future reference, I'll post this here:

If one were so inclined to make their own "Bloom Booster", the fine folks at Greenleaf Nutrients tell us that their Bud Explosion is made up of Monopotassium Phosphate, Potassium Sulfate, and Magnesium Sulfate. In order to get the same blend ( 20 P, 41 K, 1 Mg, 10 S), you would mix in the following amounts.

1 Part Magnesium Sulfate
6 Parts Potassium Sulfate
4 Parts Monopotassium Phosphate

Combine all 11 parts total into a container you can seal tight and mix the powders. Per Greenleaf's directions, feed 1 gram per gallon of water (on top of your base nutes) during bloom.

All ingredients can be sourced from Amazon. The Magnesium Sulfate (Epsom Salts) would probably be cheaper to buy local. Just don't get the stuff with scents, oils, or other crap in it.

Keeping with tradition, we'll call this bloom booster Faux-Explosion®
 
Combine all 11 parts total into a container you can seal tight and mix the powders. Per Greenleaf's directions, feed 1 gram per gallon of water (on top of your base nutes) during bloom.

These ingredients can be mixed into a water concentrate to ensure even ionic distribution. My preference is to keep everything made into their own concentrate and brought together when mixing the feed stock, but otherwise, it would be better to put your blend into water to ensure that your every measure of the blend produces the desired amounts of parts.
 
These ingredients can be mixed into a water concentrate to ensure even ionic distribution. My preference is to keep everything made into their own concentrate and brought together when mixing the feed stock, but otherwise, it would be better to put your blend into water to ensure that your every measure of the blend produces the desired amounts of parts.

True, a concentrate does tend to give a more even sample than a small bit of powder. That was a big concern with the original Mega Crop that had the "balls" in it. One sample would be mostly powder, and the next mostly balls/prills.

My "clone" recipe was left as a powder, same way Greenleaf sells theirs. The end user of the copy or original can do what they wish from that point forward as far as storing and dosing it.
 
Keeping with tradition, we'll call this bloom booster Faux-Explosion®

Or should it be Bud X-Fauxsion®? I'll have to run that past the boys in the marketing department ;)
 
True, a concentrate does tend to give a more even sample than a small bit of powder. That was a big concern with the original Mega Crop that had the "balls" in it. One sample would be mostly powder, and the next mostly balls/prills.

My "clone" recipe was left as a powder, same way Greenleaf sells theirs. The end user of the copy or original can do what they wish from that point forward as far as storing and dosing it.

My reasoning also due to dry nutes collecting RH from the air which can skew weights. My Haifa CalNite is also balls, but I can also see how the stuff would float itself to the surface of a powdery sea or other salts. I'm surprised MC didn't precipitate in the bag with calcium locking onto phosphates and sulfur.
 
I tried 2x to make a concentrate from MC, both times I had things fall out of suspension. Even heating it some and a good shaking didn't redissolve it. I finally quit trying. I don't even weigh mine anymore. I use 1/8 tsp = 1g as my unit of measure. So 1/2 tsp = 4g. I have 3 spoons, 1/8, 1/4, and 1/2, and just scoop in whatever combo I need to get my desire number of grams.
 
Day 2

Everyone looks happy in their new home. Have a cold snap here. Tent temps are 66. Cranked the light to 100% whereas it was at about 75% before. That should help a little. I'll check in a couple hours and see what that did. Gave them all a tiny drink. 1 ml Foliage Pro, 1 ml of pH down, got me to 6.3. They'll see that for probably most of this first week. Broke out the calibration packets to check my pH pens. The fancier of the two, with two decimal places and auto calibration, looks like the batteries are dying. I don't like it as much because I usually end up pushing the calibration button by mistake while I'm testing something and mess it up. Hence I use the simpler one that has one decimal place and adjusts by screwdriver. Anyhow, I mixed up the calibration solutions and tested my go to pen. It was within .1 in every solution. Good to go for another grow. Probably should pick up a couple batteries for the other unit just in case.





is it normal to grow seedlings in such big pots? I was always under the impression that the roots didnt optimize because they would hunt and search for moisture as it drains away too fast with that much medium..seedlings struggle in big pots..dont they? like the setup..but if i was you id help the little plants become monsters by transplanting a few times..just thinking out loud.
 
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