Not only was the last effort a success, but it was an eye opener for me. I live in the middle of the mountains far away from town, we have well water and it's relatively hard though I expect it's mostly calcium and magnesium. Both are beneficial for the plant and in my levels, are not deficient. I was told to use RO water, not bad advice, it probably would work. It's also very wasteful here where water is precious. So it was my goal to find a nutrient solution combo to give the plants everything they need. Foxfarms, advanced nutrients, general hydroponics, tried the 2 part systems, 3 part, 3 part plus the other 5 or 6 other bottles you use during bloom, PH up, PH down (my well water is 7.1 PH, they say this is a bit high for cannabis). That was a rabbit hole that guaranteed me in some shape or form a lockout of deficiency in every one of my grows indoors up until June.
That's when I took a leap of faith and figured I had nothing to lose, might as well try something completely different. Changed the medium to Sunshine Mix #4 Aggregate Plus, and changed the nutrients to Jacks Professional 20-20-20 (jacks classic is a very close formulation and can be used if you dont wanna buy the big bag of jacks pro), the only problems I seemed to have was feeding my plants too much! That's an easy fix, and I learned the limits before going into flowering. I still red lined the girls a couple of times through the cycle but never got to the point where the plant suffered more than just the tips of the leaves being burnt. Anyway, I didnt add anything to the medium, no extra perlite, it doesn't need it. The roots spread through the peat just fine and there seems to be plenty of perlite already in the mix. The medium holds onto water for a long time compared to coco coir. So I'm basically using my 7.1 PH well water at 230ppm off the tap, add in the measured blue crystals and that's all there is to feeding the plant. I pretty much start low, watch the plant react to the feedings and increase until I can get to 1/2 tsp (many thanks to @arb for all of this info as it's mostly his) I dont change to bloom nutes, dont use molasses or terpinator or bud candy just jacks 20-20-20. The plant seems to give us what she has when she has the basic nutrients?
Point being, this is the cheap method and I'll be damned if it wouldn't work for most anyone frankly. I can see some really poor quality water may have some problems but for most home well water you should be fine.
Plan this go around is to grow out some new and old varieties, see how they do in ScrOG. See what I think about the old genetics grown properly, and some of these new ones I've yet to try. Have some regular and feminized seeds going. I want to experiment a bit with some strategic defoliation as well.
Seedsman Original Skunk #1 Regular
Greenhouse Seeds The Church Feminized
Strawnana Magik Regular old caregiver bagseed (Strawberry Banana x Magik)
Rare Dankness Ghost Train Haze #1 Regular
Dutch Passion Desfrán Feminized
Stay green
Soaking them in water, room temp is low 60s, they didnt sink for like 2 days then I tapped then and they all sank.
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Into starter pots buried 1/4" under the medium, moistened with just water and into the humidity dome.
100W T5 4-bulb fixture above them in a 2x2x4' tent keeping the dome warm and humid. Skunk #1 is first to sprout yesterday.
That's when I took a leap of faith and figured I had nothing to lose, might as well try something completely different. Changed the medium to Sunshine Mix #4 Aggregate Plus, and changed the nutrients to Jacks Professional 20-20-20 (jacks classic is a very close formulation and can be used if you dont wanna buy the big bag of jacks pro), the only problems I seemed to have was feeding my plants too much! That's an easy fix, and I learned the limits before going into flowering. I still red lined the girls a couple of times through the cycle but never got to the point where the plant suffered more than just the tips of the leaves being burnt. Anyway, I didnt add anything to the medium, no extra perlite, it doesn't need it. The roots spread through the peat just fine and there seems to be plenty of perlite already in the mix. The medium holds onto water for a long time compared to coco coir. So I'm basically using my 7.1 PH well water at 230ppm off the tap, add in the measured blue crystals and that's all there is to feeding the plant. I pretty much start low, watch the plant react to the feedings and increase until I can get to 1/2 tsp (many thanks to @arb for all of this info as it's mostly his) I dont change to bloom nutes, dont use molasses or terpinator or bud candy just jacks 20-20-20. The plant seems to give us what she has when she has the basic nutrients?
Point being, this is the cheap method and I'll be damned if it wouldn't work for most anyone frankly. I can see some really poor quality water may have some problems but for most home well water you should be fine.
Plan this go around is to grow out some new and old varieties, see how they do in ScrOG. See what I think about the old genetics grown properly, and some of these new ones I've yet to try. Have some regular and feminized seeds going. I want to experiment a bit with some strategic defoliation as well.
Seedsman Original Skunk #1 Regular
Greenhouse Seeds The Church Feminized
Strawnana Magik Regular old caregiver bagseed (Strawberry Banana x Magik)
Rare Dankness Ghost Train Haze #1 Regular
Dutch Passion Desfrán Feminized
Stay green
Soaking them in water, room temp is low 60s, they didnt sink for like 2 days then I tapped then and they all sank.
Into starter pots buried 1/4" under the medium, moistened with just water and into the humidity dome.
100W T5 4-bulb fixture above them in a 2x2x4' tent keeping the dome warm and humid. Skunk #1 is first to sprout yesterday.
Right now the leaves are just starting to perk up after droop city and get a little green.