SOG coco perpetual grow

I'm on my second SOG and I'm keeping it between 400 and 500 ppm. I check ph every other day or so but I did mess up on my ph down in my 3rd week. Went way to low for one feeding.

I didn't like the coco I used last time so I'm trying rockwool this time.

How often to you flood? I'm doing it just once a day right now. But I think some people do it 3x a day.

Also, I'm changing out nutes every three weeks. Should I do it more often?

My plan was/is: first three weeks 100% grow nutes -- second three weeks 50% grow, 50% bloom -- third three weeks 100% bloom -- to finish 100% Ripe -- then a few days of flush

Does that sound good?

hillbillybuddha said:

I'm on my second SOG and I'm keeping it between 400 and 500 ppm. I check ph every other day or so but I did mess up on my ph down in my 3rd week. Went way to low for one feeding.

I didn't like the coco I used last time so I'm trying rockwool this time.

How often to you flood? I'm doing it just once a day right now. But I think some people do it 3x a day.

Also, I'm changing out nutes every three weeks. Should I do it more often?

My plan was/is: first three weeks 100% grow nutes -- second three weeks 50% grow, 50% bloom -- third three weeks 100% bloom -- to finish 100% Ripe -- then a few days of flush

Does that sound good?

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I am in a 50/50 mix of coco and grow stone gs-2 now.
I feed 4 times a day, every 3 hours for 15 min, during lights on. I have been working up the feeding times over several months to see how they adjust. With the mix I'm running they like more frequent low ppm feedings as opposed to 2 or 3 high ppm feedings a week. I do not have experience with rockwool so would not have any experienced advice for you.

As far as nutes go, I use the same feeding from veg to flower. Dyna-Gro Foilage Pro and Dyna-Gro Protekt. As I get better I will experiment with different nute feedings but I use one level for all stages of growth in flower. Keeping it simple with feeding has given me by far the best results I have ever achieved.

I have changed my reservoir once in about 10 months. I just top off to keep ppm at 400 ish, sometimes a little lower or higher, I just kinda feel out what they want. My pH stays much more stable this way. I like a well established reservoir. It works for me but not for everyone.

A tool that has helped me tramendisly is the Method Seven glasses. It lets you see better under hps lighting. They are a little pricy but my grows improved after I got them.
http://www.amazon.com/Method-Seven-Grow-Room-Optics/dp/B00C7ZGZIM/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1422505611&sr=8-5&keywords=method seven&pebp=1422505632596&peasin=B00C7ZGZIM

I'm surprised how you stay at 400 ppm from beginning to end in the flower stage and with your good results...

sky rocket said:

I'm surprised how you stay at 400 ppm from beginning to end in the flower stage and with your good results...

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That is only for that pheno with recirculation. I flower at 3-5" tall so they are tiny when they go in. When I vegged the same plant for several weeks DTW, they were using 600-700 and loving life.
I do not have any proof of why this happens, I just call it how I see it.

I have some THC Bombs in the same table as the Kalashnikov, the Bombs want more food so I need to separate them. This has taught me the importance of what it means when someone says "strain/pheno and environment dependant"