Any feedback on the FloraDuo A & B General Hydroponics line.....4x8 ebb and flow....

growbiguk

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I am running it on my Sannies strains right now. 80 gals of 250 ppm tap water. Mixing as if a 50 gal res. But there is a bad yellowing going on my older leaves. I have also had nute lock 2 times. The plants are 8 weeks but due to there closeness to eachother in there tube from seed they are a little small. The power is going now and the kids are on a 4x8 table. I had used a few things at the begining. zym, root enhancer, cal mag plus, floraduo a and b. floralicious. since i had the what looks to be a mag def. i took out all only using the a and b and the calmag. the a and b seem to really make the ppm's go way up. anyone else use these products. i am dealing with the overwatering since the move to the first time ebb table. droopy is the word. and i did a foliage spray of the dark energy a the supernova. shit it's late. 1000 hortux. ebb and flow. hps for now in veg. no big mh bulbs. should i mix this way low. and please not the less is more saying. have you used it to give your help please. this product seems to have it's own things going on is why, so other nute lines may not be reacting the same is all. thanks for the help seeing there isn't much else out there. even if your don't know much about the duo but you are using it let me know what your perameters are. if i left out anything that would help you help me just ask. thanks ko kush, jackberry, anesthesia. took clones to sex them. not rooted yet.
 

jopake21

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Lucky for you I have both fucked up with this nute line and succeded and the good news is im currently succeeding. I would use 50% strength just to be safe so approx 120 tblespoons for Flora b and 25 tblespoons , thats if your in flower, vis-versa for if your in veg, as to foliar feeding , take a normal size waterbottle and add half a dozen drops of one and a dozen of the other and again vis-versa depending on if its veg time or flower time. half a dozen drops of cali-magic works pretty good too. Hope this helps a little.
 

growbiguk

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now we are talkn. so what was the fuck up. i ask cause they aren't look great since they came out of there tote into the table. square pots with the plants still in the prop plugs in grow rocks. i have a real overwater look so i'm working on that at the moment. did you any of my other products? and what are you running now if you happen back in here. i am getting real bad yellowing. seems like the calmag vs. epsom test im doing now should show results then. i didn't find much online about calmag as a foilage spray. did you find that the a and b didn't have enough mag so you had to ad the calmag? thanks for posting and reading all. i'll post back as i get this fixed so that the next guy will find this when they have the same thing happen with the floraduo and the such.
 

jopake21

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i assume it looks like this, if its this bad then i hate to say its probably to late to save it i tried lowering the dose on one plant and leaching the other one because i knew i wasnt gonnahave success if i choose just one method, even tho neither method worked fully and saved them i have to say that leaching it and immediately putting it in low dose nutrient rich water and same goes for water.
So i believe i fucked up with starting to high on them, once you build it up they take it up almost faster than you can feed them if root uptake is optimal,and starting nutes too early is a common mistake 3-4 weeks till you go id say 50% strength it says on the bottle, but if their obvious signs of a defficiency early just start with an extremely low dose of your nute lineup.
 

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growbiguk

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thanks for the input sir. it has some of those really yellow leaves yes but it is staying in veg til it is figured out. i hope that the foliar feeding of the calmag will help. i had over watered a bit. i'm doing the best i can. i have the equipment now i just need the skills and using that equipment is the only way to get it right. i read enough to start forgetting shit. but i need the help and do thank you all.
 

growbiguk

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im in veg. i put 80 gal. of tap water 250 ppm into the 100 gal rez. i add the floraduo a at 500 ml and the floraduo b at 250. i went 250 on the calmag and whatever the florlicious asked for. but i have not really been able to get alot of growth cause i have to corect the over watering. there square pots with prop plugs in grow rocks. ebb and flow. every 12 hrs for the flood til i find out they need more water.
 

growbiguk

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well let me say this when they say 5.8 for the ph is the sweet spot what they don't tell you is it needs to float a little. i mean i kept my ph right at 5.8. got any and all the deficiency u could get. now after realizing not to be so anal i added water back to the rez and it floated to 6.0. it didn't take much on the down to keep it there tho. anyway one more thing to share with someone who will say i did not know that. you don't use the ph up and the ph down together if you go down too low just add water back if it is at a higher ph that is. sorry just thought i'd put this where since alot of stuff gets told over and over but these little things that aren't so easy to foresee are the hard ones to find your answers to. well i'll check back every once and a while and i'll post if need be. love this shit.....
 
Im using the floraduo however im growing in soil. I cant figure it out. Plants were doin great until 2 weeks into flower. They start showing a mag deficiency or maybe a nitrogen or a lockout. Lol. I flushed plants and added a very small amount of fert in the last bucket of water. Plants are now 5.5 weeks into flower and i cant seem to figure out what the problem is. Unsure if im using too much nutes or not enough. Im using the mild flower mix found on back of nutes. I also add 1 teaspoon of epsom salt per gallon. At this point im pretty much lost, and just hoping to hang on for another 3 weeks of so. I know this doesnt help ya at all but thought it might get more people talkin about the floraduo product. Hope everything works out for ya
 
Any idea what the ppm of the mild flower mix is with 1 teaspoon of epsom salt mixed in distilled water? Im purchasing a tds meter very soon but cant find that info anywhere
 

growbiguk

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i bought some canna vega. but after much sleep lost ph is the colprit. always. i seen all the def. that you speak of but your in dirt and the ph isn't as hard to deal with. i bought a cheap yellow ph meter and it was .5 off. so if i was at 5.8 it was really 5.3. but the kicker is the damn thing was dead on 7 with the calibration. what did you find out.
 

growbiguk

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not much people are doing here. maybe not good at my hosting of questions. but since here i thought i'd say that the canna vega was great but i have these gallons on the duo. now seeing that i bought and used the canna like the day of finding out that the ph pen and ph was the problem. so now i am doing a rez and i hope to have some useful info on the duo. cross our fingures. i'll let you know cause i'm doing it now. thanks, UK rep
 
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