Soil right on the sponge/mate with water source under that.
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3785ml x 5=
18925 ml
÷100ml
189.25
So take your amount for 5 gal, add enough water to make 100ml. Each ml will make 189.25 ml of water at the same ratio. So, about 2.1ml for 400ml feed.
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Thanks for clarifying. One issue you may have with that is if you want to clean the sponge, might be a lil bit more of a pain…
Have you ever seen earth boxes? You might like that. Also there are some diy versions on here that are similar, pretty sure @Nube has a write up.
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I think I see what you are saying, sort of making a concentrate?
The reverse, make a dilution.
The same way people microdose. Take you hit of acid and drop it in 10 ml of alcohol, now every 1ml is 1/10th of a hit. Since your trying to measure a small amount, measuring a larger volume might be easier…
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Hmm, you said take your amount for 5 gal, I thought you meant the recommended tbsp let’s say for that 5 gal and put it in 100ml? Wouldn’t that then be making a concentrated 100ml? And then are you saying apply from that (1ml of that for 189 water), but my issue with that would be that I wouldn’t want to keep the 100ml around as it goes bad and then I’d be wasting product… if I’m understanding your advice correctly?
I think I just need to bust out my micro scale. Did you see an issue with my calculations?
What is it that it goes bad? If it’s in a bottle it has water in it already, if it’s powder, then just get a good scale and do your math.
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The humic and aminos are powder, I wish they would stay good but apparently they aren’t great past 24hrs? Wish they did cause I would like to try them in an aero setup with an auto doser.
Huh, hadn’t heard that before from either. Lots of feeding programs use both and are fine as long as you put an airstones in your bucket. I’m about to set up an auto feeding rig for my room and that’s all I’m going to do, put an airstones in my reservoir
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Day 21 flower (week 3) Wed
Ok, well, been hard to tell what’s been goin on still, may have had over watered issues still, could still be ph/lockout (gonna test shortly, for real this time taking a soil sample in cup), had another mini flood despite fixing the ceramic sensor. Did I mention that?
If not, this whole time I’ve had that Blumat ceramic “surface mount” sensor empty. This probably led to it not functioning properly although I still did have a mini flood after filling it. I suspect maybe I let it get too dry, then adjusted too much (only two triangles on the dial).
I am now going to put a timed, motorized ball valve on the inlet to give some “drier periods” but we’ll see how that goes and if it floods again. At least I’ll have the valve auto closed at night (starting an hour before) so that way it shouldn’t flood while I’m asleep and hopefully also help keep the humidity down a lil at nite as well.
Anyway, I did the final, 3rd week defoliation, they were still having yellow/brown leaves and dropping before, but you can prob tell anyway that they’re not in the best shape. They must have gotten stunted as they didn’t even get that close to the lights.
Before (maybe a few days ago):
After defol:
Basically have been feeding them the fermented soy aminos, humic, bloom (fruit) ferment, wsc, and langbenite with some mycos/Fish Shit here and there.
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It doesn’t look like that watering array is designed effectively.
You should see if the vendor takes returns.
Have you ever considered a float valve?
It won’t dry out unless you let your res empty.
Used to fill mine every 10 -15 days, usually 3-4 days of that was dry, depending on plant size.
Medium never got close to bone dry.
This guy has a cool system that you could easily adapt to your needs.
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Thanks, will take a look. But yeah, I should call them again, the guy I’ve talked to seems to feel these are even easier to dial in vs the regular Blumat carrots but I don’t know.
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My next runs I expect to have a lot less problems and my clones are doing very well right now so I’ll be in a good starting place. My next soil mixes are going to be way, way less complex/complicated.
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Best of luck to you, water problems can not only mess your grow but your new floor too.
Expensive mistake, I can attest.
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So my soil ph prob doesn’t feel all to reliable, could be human error tho, but I have seen anywhere from 6.3 to 7.4.
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is it the probe with rods and no batteries? Or a fancy digital one?
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Fancy digital, I have to try again and make sure there are no rocks…
Also, not sure about this part of the probe and if it is messed up or not:
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wtf is that on there? Is it dividing 2 separate parts of the probe? Make sure you are using lots of distilled water to make a slurry before inserting the probe.
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I’m using my RO which is approx 6.7 I believe… I think since it’s only around 30ppm, it shouldn’t effect the ph much…
Yeah, I don’t know, is some plastic part and I’m not sure if it’s supposed to be on there (better?) or if I should take it off. It’s already somewhat coming off.
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I was going to guess it’s packaging that didn’t get taken off. But after checking real quick how ph meters measure, you would need two contacts to test. So could be it’s separating a tip and sleeve… but if it was suppose to be there, why isn’t it level with the rest of the probe and why is it coming off? Quite the dilemma.
Where do you have your Blumat sensor? Is it getting too much airflow? Those things look like they’d dry out super easy, probably meant to be use in high humidity, low airflow, like say in a germination dome.
Plants are looking nice, buddy. Even little flowers are pretty.
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