nft ukcheese terra aquatica bioponics

hi guys, what fun we have had this week!, i noticed that my ec hasnt been going down much this week, so i added more trikologic s... this is quite expensive, and maybe next time i will buy the normaly trikologic which is much cheaper . essentially if i had been doing the right things then i wouldnt have used as much. my fan controller broke, and because these things never happen one at a time, when i put in the replacement that broke too. i have had them a while and components break, when i opened up one i found what looked like a busted capacitor, i replaced that, and it worked fine again... by this time i already had ordered a new replacement so now i got another spare i guess. the other controller looks like a resistor has burned out, and ive put that on order, hopefully it will be an ez fix. i took a few shots from inside my bottom res for u guys, while i was doing the water change and it doesnt look too sad, and im still tryin to prune bud that isnt getting light from the bottom of the plant upwards. the top canopy is quite thick now, and very three dimentional. ive noticed a few things about terra aquatica and their product info vs my findings that i would like to address here :- pro organics and reverse osmosis :- if you add probio at 1.5 ml per l of pure ro water it gives you an ec of 0.5 if you add probio at 2ml per l of pure ro water, it gives you an ec of 0.7. if you add calg at 1ml per l of pure ro water it gives you an ec of 0.3 if you add calmag at 1.5ml per l of pure ro water it gives you an ec of 0.5 if you add calmag at 2.0ml per l of pure ro water it gives you an ec of 0.6 so at max strength of 2ml per l of probio, then you would only be able to add 1ml per l of calmag for the ec to be 1.0. if you were to add 1.5 ml of calmag the ec would be 1.2 the ph up and down way:- if you add 3ml per l of pure ro water , then add 0.5ml per l of ph down, it gives you a ph of around 7 and an ec of 0.6. but then would you get calmag deficiency? ta says:- Conductivity This is the most different part of the bioponic process because organic molecules don’t carry electric charges and so aren’t shown by EC meters. And when you dilute Pro Organic in water, only a small fraction is immediately dissolved and transformed into ions, resulting in very little conductivity. On day one, with a dose of 1.5 ml/L added to normal tap water, you will obtain an EC reading of around 0.6 to 0.7 mS. This low conductivity is generally enough. After this period, only add nutrient when your EC goes under 0.8. and respect the dosages indicated on the feed charts. Keep your conductivity under 1.0 and above 0.8 my conclusions:- if you read ta's own guidance they contradict themseve's all the time,, eg,, they say keep the ec under 1.0,,, then above it they have a chart saying keep the ec under 1.2ec .( catalogue2020) they say add 2ml per l of calmag to ro water.. this gives you an ec of 0.6, if you were then to add max strength of probio at 2ml per l, this would end up with an ec of 1.3, this is 0.3 over what they recomend. they say up to 11 down to 7... that gives you an ec of 0.6 with no calcium in it. if you were then to add max strength of probio at 2ml per l, this would end up with an ec of 1.3, this is 0.3 over what they recomend. even if you add 1.5 ml perl of calmag and max strength it would end up at 1.2.... you guessed it, over what they recommend. but this might be an option. according to their latest info they say this is too strong. so maybe........... start on 0.4 ec of calmag and 0.5 of probio in veg total ec 0.9, then when you switch the lights to 12/12, switch the nutes to bloom instead of first 2 weeks grow, lower the calmag to 0.3 and raise to 0.7 of pro biobloom total ec 1.0. this would give you what they say is full strength nute. im thinking the plants will use less calcium in bud? with this mix,,, the ph went up to 7.0, then back down to 6.5 on its own, and ill update this thread as more info develops, but it is eating down. thanks for viewing guys, take care!