Strength of nutriant?

[zyderjoe]

Does anybody find that when the nutriant is mixed in the resvoir to manufacturers spec. the ec comes up to aprox5.5 when it reccomends on the bottle itself an ec of 1.5 the nute i am using is ionic grow, reccomended dosage 7ml per liter, i would be intrested to know if anyone else had similar results, or if my ec meter is on the fritz, if its not which do you go by, the reccomended ec written on the bottle or reccomended dose written on bottle,cos there is a huge difference between the two

any feedback greatly appreciated

[jimbojones5678]

I'd be going with the recommended EC

 

Jimbo

[Reverend]

I always use a little less then what is recommended, also your meter may need new battery's.

[weedrocket]

i go by the EC on the bottle

with "canna" nutrients i have to add more than the recommended dosage on the bottles

eg: if it says 2.5ml-3.5ml per liter to get an EC of 1.6-1.8 i have to use about 5ml+ per liter

to get my EC up to around 1.6 and I've checked the truncheon against 2 other bluelab ones

and it's bang on

 

4 plants on a 11-12 week cycle munch threw almost 4liters of A&B vega & flores

[shroomyshroom]

i go by the EC on the bottle

with "canna" nutrients i have to add more than the recommended dosage on the bottles

eg: if it says 2.5ml-3.5ml per liter to get an EC of 1.6-1.8 i have to use about 5ml+ per liter

to get my EC up to around 1.6 and I've checked the truncheon against 2 other bluelab ones

and it's bang on

 

4 plants on a 11-12 week cycle munch threw almost 4liters of A&B vega & flores

 

hungry fuckers would that be canna by any chance...

[weedrocket]

hungry fuckers would that be canna by any chance...

 

yep like piranha weed

a friend has the same strain but only does 2 plants and gets 3 runs out of the canna 1ltr's

i think the next lot i buy will be the 5lt ones or change brand

[dsyfer]

I'd try a different ec meter first, it is not all that often that the mixing instructions are THAT far off.

 

Most nutes I have used were around the 2.5-3ml per litre at full strength, and came in pretty close on the recommended EC range.

[Herbman]

yep like piranha weed

a friend has the same strain but only does 2 plants and gets 3 runs out of the canna 1ltr's

i think the next lot i buy will be the 5lt ones or change brand

think changing brand would be the obvious solution if thats happening

[Radic]

the recommended plan will have a minimum EC and a Max EC to aim for when you mix

most people shoot for somewhere inbetween

now hear dis

the best one to aim for is the minimum EC

economics rulez here as weedrocket is saying

it often takes a bit of fine tuning to suite each strain, stage of growth and physical size of the plant

whole idea is to max your plants growth rates as cheep as possible

seen

run your system as lean as possible while still maxing out the growth rates

thats why some aim for even lower than recommended

[Innocent criminal]

here is an old feeding schedule for ionic (*dont be put off by the different look, still the same product), it says 5ml per litre to achieve 1.5 to 2.0 EC

http://www.gthydro.com/images/feedingchart...ule_feeding.pdf

 

hehe that truncheon in their pic is the same as mine!