greenthumbjudex
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I'm growing this baby out here under 12/12 cfl lights, day 14 from sprout, so here is the question, I feed her 500ppm and the runoff is 100ppm is this a sign that she is taking the nutes?
RUN OFF PPM IS THIS OKAY?
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teddy bonkers
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you NEVER need to check run off, it only tells you what ran out the bottom, learn to read the plant, that will tell you everything you need to know.
greenthumbjudex
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oh okay cause i saw some post that runoff ppm matters. I'm a newbie,
teddy bonkers
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you will hear all kinds of non sense. flushing,bloom nutes, bloom boosters,check run off and many more. Here is the best advise for a newbie.
don't love your plants to death
LESS is MORE
keep it simple stoner K.I.S.S
greenthumbjudex
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thanks man, and last question, Is this an autoflower or photoperiod? this is some random bag seed i found and grew her,
greenthumbjudex
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@giantcola i am growing in coco/perlite mix btw
teddy bonkers
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ok, I never used coco.Wait.
It depends on your cultivation method.
With soil you can’t check runoff, but with coco it is super important as u get your information way before the plant starts showing anything.
giantcola
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I guess you won’t know until she gets 3-4 weeks old, remember to check the sex as soon as she shows pre flowers, usually stress and training make this process faster
greenthumbjudex
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Mr. Krinkle
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don't ever waste your time checking runoff
greenthumbjudex
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okay so it's day 14 now and how do I know if it's an auto? and I started lst yesterday
Boatguy
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If thats the case, your runoff ppm should match your input ppm. Not sure how its dropping to 100
That makes no sense to me, how can you add 500ppm and get 100ppm out? Normally you are going to have some salts in the medium and your run-off will be a little higher then what's going in. Lets say you added 500 and a week later your plants have eaten 400 of that and you add 500 again. The run off coming out will be that 500 that goes through and brings with it a little bit of the 100 that's left over so it should be over 500. The only thing I can think of is that your air-pots are filtering the salts out and your testing your run-off will tell you absolutely nothing of value. Don't worry, you don't really need to test your run-off anyway. It can be valuable information but even without it you can just read your plants.
Mr. Krinkle
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it means NOTHING
greenthumbjudex
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thats the case idk why is she not taking up the nutes? seems like she is healthy
giantcola
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Did you buffer the coco? When such values are showing, i’ll guess the medium is locking up the calcium, has to do with cation exchange sites, and so the mineral comes not available as the coco bonds to it.
if that’s the case, i’ll suggest to check how to buffer coco coir or give the plant a massive calcium feed
teddy bonkers
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Hey, I'm no coco expert, but why dose a high calcium to a plant that looks fine?
Mr. Krinkle
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Does that plant look healthy to you? it does to me - so ya know what? don't chase your tail checking run-off for no reason other than reading about it somewhere