Well, i'm not sure that you can rise the Ec without mezzing with your Ph. If you need more Ec use more powder feed. Adjust the Ph little at the time and wait for the result. As an example. When i use hydro i adjust Ph pretty often. Sometimes because of what i do in that moment and sometimes because the water tank need a refill after thirsty plants(But then they also need some extra feed first as well). It's normal and all growers need to do it. But there is a difference between brands of feed. Some brands like Advance nutes or some of the Canna bottles do keep a pretty stable Ec/Ph. Mind you, i have not tried that many different feeds so i can't speak for them all. Other brands need adjustment every day. I have also seen that the bigger the water rez, the easier it was to keep stable values(at least for me). I also saw that Gh powder feed was weaker than i thought it to be and with a big tank i needed more powder than the bag said. (anyone else seen this?) I would not worry about overfeeding your plants by adjustment alone. The Ec meter will tell you what you need to know. Just because you add more of something does not mean you will overfeed. If you already had good values and then added more Powder, yes then you would overfeed. What i liked best was the powder feed in veg and advanced in bloom. It worked great for me. We all have different water quality, way of handling the plants or just lack of experience with a certain brand. All this will also effect your result. I strongly urge you to use the Ec meter even if you say "But I will admit that I am not looking at my EC values at all" it is so damn key, as well with monitoring the Ph. In soil you can often use your "feel" and it is not as important. If you grown one plant in soil and had a good result you prob can do the next grow as good or even better if you go about the same way. (omg i keep on ranting haha) I rant because i like this thread. Compared grows has always sparked an interest. I even did a powder feed Vs Advance nute grow just to see what would happen. What makes this a nice thread to follow for me, is because we seem to get different results even when we are kind of similar in our approach. I know this is not the ideal answer and perhaps not what you were looking for. Still, it's my thoughts and perhaps you can find something of use. I would love to hear Bams view on this and perhaps Jan or Jose? Perhaps someone else have some good input. I smell a wonderful thread in the making

Hi, Hunters! Some news , I moved into flower room, the SLEX. The cutted branches have growed nice roots, after 7-8 days.After , the mites attack i'm later with the grow.Will see , when will finish the buds.Some pictures about the SLEX.But here i will show the life of the Slex, till the end.

marvgk, Now that the girls are about 20 days into flowering, I can still see virtually no difference in the growth characteristics between the use of Powderfeeding (Short-flowering powder) and the use of the Advanced Hydroponics Schema. Both sets of nutrients seem to be working wonderfully for my "Drip into Rockwool" Vegg set-up as well as for my "Ebb n Flow Hydroponics" Flowering set-up. I am so happy with Powder-feeding that I have ordered a Kilo bag of Hybrid Powder-feeding via www.growmart.de. As far as "switching" is concerned, "switch" would not be the correct term to use in my case. I use many brands of nutrients: GreenHouse, Advanced Hydro, Hesi, Plagron, BioBizz, and I will continue to experiment with even more manufacturers products whenever it fits my fancy to buy them. There are also some products from California that I would like to try, if I can find them in my local market: General Hydroponics, Happy Frog and some others. Therefore, I DO recommend that you buy Powderfeed. It is so easy. And it seems that if you keep the pH at the correct level, the EC pretty much takes care of itself, at least that's what the performance of my plants indicates. I will however, be double-checking that later, after my new EC meter arrives. In my opinion, every grower should become familiar with a wider spectrum of products than only one manufacturer's products.

marvgk, The comparison is currently underway in THIS Green House Kush Test. I'm not sure, but there may have been other members who have performed similar comparison tests in the past; maybe they had posted their results. But I think that my thread is the only CURRENT thread in this forum running a straight one-for-one comparison of Powder-Feeding against another manufacturer's nutrients. In my opinion, at the current time, there has been very little difference in performance between PF and Advanced Hydro. During the early vegetative phase, it seemed that some of the GHKs under PF had developed a bit faster than those under Advanced Hydro, but as time passed, it seemed that they all evened themselves out. But as of 9 days ago, the plants had entered the phase where, potentially, any difference should begin to show itself - the Flowering phase. Whereas the Powder-Feeding formula remains the same for Flowering as it is for Vegg (except that the PF schema calls for monitoring and adjusting of EC), the Advanced Hydro nutrient schema DOES change. For AH flowering, less of 1-Grow (Nitrogen-base) is scheduled, and more of 2-Bloom (Phosphor-base) and more of 3-Micro (Trace element-base) as well as Bloom Excellerator are scheduled. These boosted nutrients for the AH specimen group during the flowering phase could produce different results as might be seen in the PF specimen group. In short, it is still too early in the test to draw any concrete conclusions. But I will admit that I am not looking at my EC values at all. Additionally, I am not holding my pH in either of the reservoirs strictly in the optimum range for hydro- which is 5,8 to 6,0. The pH of my solutions tends to rise with time, and often upon testing, I discover my solutions sitting at 7,0 to 7,8 sometimes. When I do discover pH that far out, I do lower it using Nitric acid 38% to my target of 5,8. Sometimes I overshoot into the ~5,2 range, or after achieving 6,2 I am happy with leaving it there. Either way, my experience is that with time, the pH will have risen when I test again in 2 or 3 days. I admit further that whereas the Nitric Acid is the optimum pH-Down to use for Vegg, it would be better during the flowering phase to use Phosphoric Acid. But I dont have any of that. I did lower the pH in both reservoirs last night. The PF reservoir required comparitively less ph-Down than did the AH reservoir. If one was to compare visually the two reservoirs, one would see right away that the AH solution is much darker than the PF reservoir. This could be an indication that the AH solution has more particles in solution (higher PPM) than the PF solution. And that could explain the difference in the amount of pH-corrective fluid required. I imagine that a solution with a higher PPM might require more corrective fluid to shift its pH. Now that brings up another question. If I mix Powder-Feeding according to the scheduled schema, and I have already adjusted my pH to the optimum level, but my EC remains still too low, what product should I use to increase the EC without messing up my pH or over-fertilizing my plants? Hmmmmm... If anyone has the answer to that, I am very interested to learn. So, please stay tuned for the comparison results. I thank you for your interest and your questions.

The SLEX has a more Sativa genetic than the original SLH. The SLEX reacts well to topping, SCROG or LST methods. Most SLEX are def. SATIVAS, some are more INDICA like and a few are def. on the Exodus Cheese side. The HAZE phenoes are most commom and stretch like pure SATIVAS do.

OMG! What a monster!!! Led future is here. How much did you pay for that led if you do not mind me asking?

Hey bro!!! we were all newbies at some point!!!! welcome and feel free to talk to us on the chat!!! PEACE!

Thanks for continuing the thread. I'm curious. What kind of seedling tray(starter-pot) are you using to grow those SLEX seedlings? Do you find that you have drying-out issues with such a material?