Augus

OH NO, don't tell me I cook them

 

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Art_Giacosa

Don't worry. Plants are very forgiving.

What you're trying to do is maintain a high humidity until such time as the plant adapts to a lower humidity environment. This will happen slowly. Start by opening a corner of your plastic film. Then over a couple of weeks, open it a little more.

Let the plants be your guide.

LordSul

I though of this idea:

Making 2 holes, just enough to fit silicon tubing. And we gave CO2 from one of the holes, all day under the sunshine. Of course to a closed container, but can be opened for moistening water every morning.

Any ideas, has this been done before?

p3md

Just a few clarifications with regards to some of the things mentioned in this thread.

I am in my 5th week of growing my HC emersed.

When you say Fertilize liberally, how often and at what amount? Say on a 16x10x10 Inch Tank?
(Note: I have the components for PPS-Pro at hand.)

How do you guys administer the Fertz?

I use the plants as a guide, but I am not very sure if I am still under dosing on the Fertz. I am wondering if I can push the growth even faster. I wanna know how you guys do your thing.

Here are my Tank Parameters:
16x10x10 Inches
2 x 23watt CFL's
Black Volcano Sand
Fertilizer is PPS-Pro 5ml Macro and 2.5ml CSM+B weekly injecrted in the Substrate.

TIA

niko

P3md,

When I say "fertilize liberally" I mean don't try to maintain certain ppms of this or that fertilizer. Basically you want to make water that is rich in fertilizers. If you are into PPS you should be able to figure out how much of what will make this "rich" water.

Don't worry too much about the fertilizers. What will really make the emersed HC grow is A LOT of light. I grow mine under 120 watts of light that is only 2 inches above the plant. Make your conclusions from there

Also if you don't use Aquasoil don't expect the greatest growth in the Universe. The HC will grow but not near as explosive as with Aquasoil. No Aquasoil = be patient . The roots like acidic pH and that is what Aquasoil provides very well. You may try to adjust the substrate pH with acid but the headaches are too much I think.

--Nikolay

p3md

Oh Ok. Thanks.

I previously had 92 watts on this emersed HC tank but I half the lighting since my "old" HC leaves were yellowing. Come to think of it, it was also the time when I was dosing Fertz at only every 2 weeks. Go figure

I will put back the other 2 cfls and increase fertz... we'll see.

Thanks again.

BTW, here is a picture (I hope the TS won't mind):

Week 4

BJRuttenberg

was my understanding that when using a nutrient rich substrate like amazonia aquasoil, there was no need to dose nutrients...

 

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