Grandaddy Bruce fell victim to a some overfeeding and nute burn early on (as evidenced by the lower leaves) but seems to be back on track.
Rez change today and the VeloKelp is now out of the mix. Visited my local hydro supply store to pick up a few things last week and had a great discussion with the owner about nutrients. She highly discouraged the use of VeloKelp in DWC, stating it had the potential to cause more harm than good given that not everything in the product can be easily absorbed, and further, had the potential to attract gnats, promote mould/fungus and rot. She also said to use a light hand with Nature's Candy because complex carbohydrates can't be broken down in DWC and can attract some pretty nasty microbes. This is something that has been pointed out to me before by a fellow DWC grower, the wise and powerful, @Oozlefinch 😉
The plants seem to be good with the new lighting. Currently, it's about 30" above the canopy (such as it is) at 50% power.
I plan to FIM her later in week and get her ready for flower, hopefully after week 4.
Thanks for tuning in ✌️
@Oozle, A break is good. I'm going to have to take a little growing hiatus myself. We have a trip planned to B.C. at the beginning of June so I won't be able to start anything new until I get back. I'm hoping I can at least get an auto or two going outdoors when I return.
@StunFlower, awesome. Thanks for sharing. I will look into getting 1. I am hoping I only need 1 more res change until the late summer/fall haha. Going to try and finish the season out in soil and take a break during the hottest part of the summer.
Stinks about your EC meter. I had that happen to me last year with a cheap $15 EC meter from Amazon. I bought a Blue Lab EC meter and haven't looked back since.
@Oozle, Oh, I have a Blue Lab meter. I think it lulled me into a false sense of security. The calibration was long overdue.
Money saving tip... My pen kept erroring out when I tried to calibrate it which led to me trying to find the 'recommended' Blue Lab cleaning kit for the probe which is about $18 CAD for a tiny tube of cream cleaner, a little cleaning stick, and a small pouch of calibration fluid. I already had calibration fluid, so the cleaning cream was all I really needed. Fortunately, as it turns out, my local hydro store didn't have one in stock and I ended up buying a bottle of cream cleaner (VIM) from the dollar store for $1.75 which did the job perfectly.
You're plants are zooming!
I still like liquid karma (botanicare's kelp product) in DWC haha. It def can cause problems, but I learned to not use it early until the roots are established and keep my res inoculated with hydroguard and use SLF-100 every so often.
It adds so much I can't add without a bunch of bottles: B- vitamins, amino acids, humic acids, + the kelp has natural PGRs and hormones great for the plant's health. I never tried Remo's velokelp, but it probably has a lot of the same stuff.
But you know, it isn't needed and you can grow bomb plants without it.