Terra Aquatica, Uk Cheese, Theoldtimer,,, And The Hunt For The Stable Ph ! ( like a unicorn she will never be found.. or will she? )
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hi guys, my names the old timer and im new around here, i just stumbled across the site, 2 hrs later im making my first diary post, so welcome!
The story of my ukcheese is the stuff of legends,
Cheese was originally a clone-only pheno-type of Skunk #1 that was discovered by a rogue english grower who was breeding out packs to find a mum of super high strength, he made cuttings and passed them on to a cannabis collective near Luton, north of London. Their members shared this cutting across the uk and europe using online forums much like this one and across england to their friends. With 60% indica genetics it was lauded due to its combination of powerful stone and its intense earthy, musky flavour with notes of mature hard cheese. since then professional growers and breeders such as greenhouse seeds, and big buddha and many more , have crossed this cutting only variety with other fathers, producing cheese crosses that have gone on to win many cannabis cups around the world, but few people still have the original cutting only variety.
To use ghe organic nutes you need a medium size fish tank filter, or bio filter, that you put trikologic s into, once that collonates with bacteria, you add the biothrive, and that feeds the bacteria in the filter,,, the bacteria then excrete the nutrients that the plants uptake. Normally with non organic products, the nutrient salts are suspended in the solution, and you up the concentration as the grow progresses. That doesnt happen with organic nutrients, its the bacterias in the filter that produce the nutrient, so if you dont have the filter then your going to run into huge issues i believe. ( i did last time lol )
the bio nutes go in at 2ml per l, from early veg all the way to end of bud, leaving you with a final max ec of 0.9. You wait until the ec drops under 0.8 before adding nute, but if the ph drops then either the nutes to high or its going to be to low,, if you can keep it on 0.9 that seems the best.
i am using fish tank bio filter, nutrient fridge, power head to mix soultion 24/7, medo septic tank pump +4 stones for airation , and a bluelabs pro controller to control nutes, EcoTechnics Evolution Digital Fan Speed Controller to control environment
ghe has changed their name in europe to terra aquatica and then helpfully they changed all their product names ( but thats another story) but its all the same stuff as gh america, and ghe used to be, to make this easy for the reader i have included terra aquaticas new grow shedule that i am following, but i have edited black lines over the items i wont be using, also i am using the american names for ghe products eg,.. biothrive bloom in ta is now called pro organic bloom.
As you can see my roots dont like the light, and for that reason i keep the cubes in my nft trays, with cubecaps on, under corex, covered in wbw, and then i have made little wbw collers to go round the stem so theres no way light can get in at all, but air could still vent out. waters on 24/7.
ive noticed:- as i have my res with a float auto top up, that adds fresh calmaged water, unatended the concentrate will weaken,,, when this happens the ph stop rising and will go down,, similarly if you over nute it the, ph will stop rising and drop, but if you keep it about 1.0 then the ph rises as intended, so i could set my autodoser up with bloom nute and ph down, and it should control it.
if any of you viewers have any sudgestion, or u can see that ive done something wrong or i dont understand something, please send me a message, or pop a comment underneath, im still learning ! and if anyones got any questions i can help with about nft feel free to fire away, many thanks guys
oldtimer😁👌