First Grow

Another week, another 7 inches of growth. Everything seems to be progressing according to Hoyle. There's some brown and yellow, but it's mostly on older leaves,many of which are low and somewhat light deprived. I'm watering 4 gallons every other day, and the water I'm adding is a full strength mix. That said, the mix is also much lower than Advanced Nutrients recommendations. I was using their phone app to provide the mix proportions, and the program never stated a changing ratio for older plants. The result is that I've been mixing as if it was the second week of vegetation. I will correct this next week when I mix more nutes. On the topic of watering and nutes, there are a couple areas where I've chosen not to follow conventional wisdom. First, I have not swapped out the solution; I've simply added to what's in the reservoir at each watering. Second, the water that I'm adding each time contains a nute mix that's only slightly more potent than the water remaining in the reservoir. Lastly, with regard to watering and nute mix, I did break down and buy a new TDS meter. The new unit, a pen-style device by HM Digital, comes close to agreeing with my other options, a CWP 24/7 unit, and an inline unit, also by HM Digital. I can still have a 100ppm difference between the highest and lowest readings, but that's a vast improvement over the several hundred that appeared regularly using the Pancellent device. At least the new devices can be calibrated manually.