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The pH should be 5.8. Phosphoric acid is your friend. edit: This looks like heat stress, but your thermometers indicate that your temperature is correct. Lack of oxygen to roots can also look like this. Have you a bubbler? Also are any of your roots yellow/brown and slimy? DreadLlama fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Dec 16, 2015 |
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The closest source I can find relative to your location is in Lower Sackville NS. http://steveshydroponics.ca/ If he's not willing to ship to you, the 2nd best option would be to try and steal some of his business: http://www.hydroponics.ca/contact_becomeadistributor.html With Trudeau in power there could be surge in demand for supplies around March or so. You might be ideally positioned to make a lot of money.
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gently caress I thought you said St. Johns and I was imagining some poor bastard with irritable bowel syndrome about to do a 22hr drive on my advice. I am glad that they are more accessible to you than I'd first thought. You poor East Coast bastards need more help than you're getting from the middle/west provinces. I am happy to have been of assistance. DNF will serve you well regardless of the plant you're growing. I've got citronella and aloe vera growing indoors right now on DNF grow (the A&B two part system) is all I feed them. It may be optimized for Mary Jane but it is certainly serviceable for other plant species. DreadLlama fucked around with this message at 06:21 on Dec 17, 2015 |
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The reservoir slime you're seeing is likely to be Pythium. It likes higher temperatures and I strongly suspect that its appearance is is related to your fan not being on. A short-term stopgap solution could be to make sure it's plugged in at all times. But if in July/August your nighttime temperatures fail to fall below 32°C you will need a way to lower your reservoir temperatures below ambient. I suggest a thermoelectric chiller. http://www.ebay.com/itm/thermoelect...E8AAOSwPcVV2JUL Select a temperature on the control panel and it'll automatically heat and/or cool the water until it is at said temperature. It hasn't got any moving parts inside (it's just a temperature sensor and a Peltier module inside) so you should expect it to last a while. Forgetting to reactivate your fans can have adverse effects on your water temperatures. Dirt is a real good insulator and plants don't generally have to worry about temperature fluctuation in the root zone. Corollary: If your root zone temperatures fluctuate more than your plants are used to, they will not be happy plants. You might want to get a thingie to keep your temperatures where you want them. Some internet people suggest that you maintain a root temperature of 30°C. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11539775 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF02220188 Other (smarter) internet people will tell you not to go above 25°C http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01904169009364127 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1066404/ http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/all/opp7957
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By the way, what is your water source? If you are on a well and softening your water, magnesium and calcium have been removed and replaced with sodium. Plants do not like sodium.
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You're just on limestone, right? Edit: If you are softening your water, there are two solutions: 1. Purchase potassium-based water softener. 2. Bypass the softened water. Sodium is bad for everything that doesn't live in the ocean. Animals need sodium. It is an electroyte and our nervous system would not function without it. Terrestrial plants haven't a nervous system and haven't a need for sodium. Potassium on the other hand is a valuable nutrient and your plants will love it if you give it to them. Also your septic bed will function better as a garden bed than it used to. But if the $22 price tag on a bag of K-softener is too much (vs $8 for Na-softener), there's probably a garden hose faucet on your well just under the accumulator tank. Take your water from there and it will (probably) contain enough natural calcium and magnesium for your plants. (And more importantly, no sodium). DreadLlama fucked around with this message at 04:10 on Dec 30, 2015 |
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Dec 30, 2015 03:55
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See? Get 5.8 and everything is good. Go to 5.9 and you'll get fat and lose your hair. Go to 5.7 and your wife will leave you and start a youtube channel about your inadequacy as a man. 5.8 all the time forever.
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I would like to add that I too am surprised at the amount of plants you're able to cultivate off a single T5 bulb. How many Watts does it draw? Also can you post more about that getting the government to pay for your farm thing?
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I think you'll probably make more money on medical cannabis if you can jump through the legislative hoops.Nblue posted:I think I topped up the bucket a bit too high so the bottom of the plant got soggy and developed rot.
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