Indoor NFT Continuation journal AFN

[jok81]

ile put this here ! Home Made Potassium Silica !

Ingredients you need :

( 1 ) 200g of potassium hydroxide ( koh ) , the flake type what i got .

( 2 ) 300g of silica crystals cat litter. ( it dose not matter if you find there are bits of purple/ blue colour in them if wondering what type to get , clear or with purple bits , either will work )

( 3) 500ml of distilled water ( i used spring water )


( 4) Follow this video step by step but instead of using sodium hydroxide like in the video , we are replacing the sodium part for potassium to make potassium silica ( takes about 45 mins , enjoy

 

[bad dragon bzzz]

doing some real nice work here,and growing some pretty bushes to.

 

[jok81]

Also! Here is a very handy Recipe for Home Made "Cal-Mag" courteous to afn member holyTHC :::



Hi AFN
Here is quick tip how to make your own CalMag additive, which you could use for buffering your RO water, fixing various blocks and defs through whole grow cycle.
Final product contains ideal proportions of Cal and Mag, it will fully assure that these two elements will be available for your plant, no other nutes of same type are needed.
Dosage is 2ml / l for any kind of usage - soil, coco, hydro, foliar, etc.
I do recommend to use it with Amino acids for foliar - that's a nuclear coctail for your vegging plants!

What do we need
Calcium nitrate 130g
Magnesium sulphate (epsom salts) 50g
Distilled water 330ml

How to do it
We make two liquid solutions in separate dishes:
Solving Magnesium sulphate in 200ml of water
Solving Calcium nitrate in rest of the water

Ready solutions must be filtered before mixing, because Calcium nitrate will have some fats mixed in and these will be bad for filtering of final solution.

While constantly stirring, pour both solutions to one dish and keep stirring for couple of minutes. After that just leave all that for couple of hours, till most of Calcium sulphate will fall ot in bottom of dish as white powder of gyps. Now carefully pour liquid from top (you may use tubing to make it super clean), and that is what you need. Gyps now can be thrown away and solution is good to keep for a long time. If some gyps will fall in same solution while in shell, never miind, as when used with waater it will dissolve. You will need to mix it plenty with watern anyway before usage.

The result
Homemade CalMag ~483g
Gyps ~27g

Contents of final CalMag solution:
Nitrogen 4.2%
ammonia 0.24%
nitrates 3.96%
Calcium (as CaO) 4.7%
Magnesium (as MgO) 1.7%
Suphur (as SO3) 0.09%

That's it, happy growing!

 

[jok81]

doing some real nice work here,and growing some pretty bushes to.

thanx alot for your input archie ! , its only a small cupboard garden , ive built up the pieces for it , lights ect over a period of time ! I have somewhat settled in this nft style but would love to try coco if I know its gunna provide me enough amount of meds ! there are some amazing coco growers on here ! there is lots I need to learn on that technique for sure ! an cheers I like to help others an make things easyer where I can .

 

[jok81]

I got the shortstuff purple amnesia's out to chop them , but i have just took some of the top colas off an put the tray back in for the lower flowers to develop some more ! the flowers on this strain have been the biggest i have witnessed so far , theyre bigger than the recently shortstuff big guns were ! the smell reminds me of a fresh subway sandwich with all the salad lol ?

 

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[jok81]

the tops were pretty cooked enough i thought ! i love the purple coming out on them as a kind member pointed out to me when they were more likely ready !

 

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[jok81]

meanwhile this thing is taking off realtime ! ( can you see the size of the elongation of stem on this mofo ! ? , i am hoping this is the joint doctors new auto critical ogre ! as i havnt seen one grown yet apart from a few pics !
Last year i put a normal ogre auto i got free in a plantpot in soil in garden an forgot about it more or less and just watered now and again and i was really impressed with the size it got without much looking after ! this is definatley looking like something different ! ogre-ish ?? maybe ??? i could be wrong and it could turn out to be the rhino ryder ? , i lost one of them when i forgot to let air into the propergator an 1 swelted up in the too condencedly moist environment !