Just started this year, semi-successful thus far. Thanks to the forum for being an incredible resource and to Mephisto for cranking out kick-ass genetics.
I should have just started with DWC. Was worried about dealing with huge volumes of wastewater. Keeping them in standalone buckets and timing res changes makes that a non factor. 1-2 gallons of wastewater per plant per res change I can deal with.
Quantums, megacrop, sweet candy right now. MKP will go into the next batch to get around 1:1:2
Dancing with nitrogen toxicity on this one. Gonna shelve the GreenLeaf Calmag next grow and try a little Botanicare (RO water/0 ppm start). Also reducing my compost tea to bare essentials, ditching the kelp and other crap I was adding. I will also add a little less, because they would claw up after tea application.
This grow has really opened my eyes on how well plants can do when fed on the lean side. I've been slowly upping the ppms, but still haven't achieved anything close to stable ppms. Been feeding around 400. They drink almost a gallon a day and leave ~150ppms behind in the 2 gallons left. Just topping off with full strength nutes right now. Taking it real slow because I'm nearly certain now that I fried some earlier coco plants thinking it was a deficiency.
I'm going to hook up a drip system tonight to keep the res level more consistent. No floats, no draining -- just drip lines and timers. Maybe that will help mitigate the ph crashing that I see now. It seems to raise for a few days after res change -- then it gets to a point and starts crashing instead. I lose about a point a day. I'm hoping that with a more consistent level and a little higher ppms this will stabilize some.
Anyhow, thanks all!
