Grow Mediums Mini Kratky 1.0 test - All organic......Will it work?

[pop22]

Pics tomorrow! I feel I need to rethink my organic Kratky Idea. In the mean time, I emptied the mini res, and filled if with the mixture I use in the res and the Kratky bucket, 90ppms cal/mag, 475ppms of MaxiGrow. Ph'd to 5.9. I'll just let it go from here. She's already looking better. I don't think she was getting enough nutrients with the compost tea. I'll try again when I can add my worm compost to the tea.

Also started another mini bucket...lol. Used a 48 0z Mayo jar this time. I put a clone of plant that was badly damaged by the well water. Its Blueberry Headband x Durrty Dragon ( I got a lot of use out of that little male.).LOL!

 

[derek420colorado]

Pop, you had an issue with well water damaging your plants? I am moving to my new house in the spring and I have well water there, I know that it depends on where in the world you are located as to what kind of well water you have but I am just wondering if ther is something inherently wrong with using well water for your plants

 

[pop22]

Pop, you had an issue with well water damaging your plants? I am moving to my new house in the spring and I have well water there, I know that it depends on where in the world you are located as to what kind of well water you have but I am just wondering if ther is something inherently wrong with using well water for your plants

I have no idea what changed. Water test was inconclusive also. Yet, when I switched to making RO water, my problems all went away. Now last winter, with the same well water, I grew a White Widow auto that gave to 6 ounces dry! So, until you use it, you won't know. Most likely you'll be fine. Bur if your leaves start looking ywllow with green viens, and the edges start looking burnt, its likely your water! Took my months to figure this out.

 

[pop22]

Pics today! The new Mini 2 is doing ok, still alive and color is improving already. Same for Mini 1. You can see the leaves are getting greener.

 

[Anthropolis]

Hey derek, I'm very familiar with hard well water so here's my two cents Mine is very deep, and goes down into the limestone rock bed water table. As such, my pH was a danger danger zone of a whopping 8.3!!! So my first grow was spent chasing the lockout dragon lol. Then, when they just weren't surviving, I culled most of them and inspected the roots and found something shocking but then everything else made sense. The hard water had deposited chalky layers of limescale smothering the whole roots system! There was also a layer of evaporated chalky junk on the medium and pots. So, went to collecting rainwater and problem solved... Except that it hasn't rained now in 4+ weeks and now I'm on bottled distilled water lol.
So, just test your water with your pens, test it on 1 plant start to finish, so ya don't kill a whole batch lol, and you'll be good Sorry to interrupt / hijack lol, just was a costly lesson I'd like to save anyone from haha.

Pop, you had an issue with well water damaging your plants? I am moving to my new house in the spring and I have well water there, I know that it depends on where in the world you are located as to what kind of well water you have but I am just wondering if ther is something inherently wrong with using well water for your plants

 

[pop22]

Hey derek, I'm very familiar with hard well water so here's my two cents Mine is very deep, and goes down into the limestone rock bed water table. As such, my pH was a danger danger zone of a whopping 8.3!!! So my first grow was spent chasing the lockout dragon lol. Then, when they just weren't surviving, I culled most of them and inspected the roots and found something shocking but then everything else made sense. The hard water had deposited chalky layers of limescale smothering the whole roots system! There was also a layer of evaporated chalky junk on the medium and pots. So, went to collecting rainwater and problem solved... Except that it hasn't rained now in 4+ weeks and now I'm on bottled distilled water lol.
So, just test your water with your pens, test it on 1 plant start to finish, so ya don't kill a whole batch lol, and you'll be good Sorry to interrupt / hijack lol, just was a costly lesson I'd like to save anyone from haha.

Its the calcium in your water that's the problem for sure. Just read that a ppm of more than 70 for calcium will lead to problems! And that hard water will cause more damage than you can imagine! It will eat your metal plumbing fixtures. One place I lived we had to replace the water faucets every 2 years!!!

 

[realcarlos]

Hey Pop!
Just thought I'd stop by, not sure how I missed this thread. But good idea!

I did something similar.

1 Litre container. The bottom 3/4 of the netpot was filled with soil (no nutrients) and the top was filled with hydroballs

I never meassured pH, but it did have an air pump and changed the res every week or so

https://www.autoflower.org/f10/auto-hindu-34741.html

 

[pop22]

Hey Pop!
Just thought I'd stop by, not sure how I missed this thread. But good idea!

I did something similar.

1 Litre container. The bottom 3/4 of the netpot was filled with soil (no nutrients) and the top was filled with hydroballs

I never meassured pH, but it did have an air pump and changed the res every week or so

https://www.autoflower.org/f10/auto-hindu-34741.html

Hey! That's cool. I'm trying to find a minimalist baseline for growing. That's my whole goal with this. Can I grow something that will grow well enough, with that absolute minimum input on my part. A working Kratky bucket running on organics would be the perect lazy man's grow! For myself, I find I'm liking simplicity for simplicity’s sake. plant it, add water when needed, not nearly the potential for pests that soil has, what's not to like?

And however it all turns out, it keeps me out of trouble thinking this stuff up to do...LOL! :Sharing One:

 

[Anthropolis]

Enjoying watching ya work on this! Have you found the organic liquids to go anaero and spoil much in the kratky? I know if I mix up some food from my GO box and don't use it all within a day, it goes mad stinky and I must presume it went anaerobic and spoiled. I think I saw some hydro guys say the same when they tried organic hydro, but maybe the specifics of kratky would somehow make it work out.

 

[derek420colorado]

Thanks yall for the tips on the well water, I may go out tomorrow and test it to see what the PPMs are, I know this won't tell me what is in my water but it will kind of give me an idea of how much stuff is in there. I will check the pH as well. I am really hoping that it is ok and not all jacked up. Because it doesnt rain very much here and I really don't want to install an RO filter system, but I may have to Anyway, the new Kratky is looking good and yes the green is def coming back to the leaves for sure, mine finally started to all get lush green again after I upped the PPMs to about 500. Glad to see it working and I think based even on just what you have done so far I think it will work for my purposes. So keep it up my friend and I am sending mad grow and Kratky Karma your way!