I have been using their two part connoisseur line for a while now, and it's generally set and forget. I would refill my bucket back up each morning to the same level, but didn't have to bother with ph, etc., and do a full replacement every 4 days or so. I tried that with aero at first and would quickly see deficiency signs, so then I tried just letting it run down and replacing res when it's low, but that resulted in crazy excess.

I added some additional lighting, which is helping it chew through more food, but the biggest change was refilling my ras back to roughly the same tds values a couple times a day, instead of once a day with a preset volume.

I am surprised you are PH'ing your water while running the ph perfect line. Does that have to do with running the full masters track? I didn't really have luck moving the needle the few times I've tried.

From my understanding, and the marketing propaganda, the surfactants and chelation make everything available for uptake as long as the range is > 4 and < 8ish. I genuinely stopped years ago, but I do miss the control sometimes.

[–] SchmidtGenetics 1 points 1 month ago

Hrmm yeah that’s out of my knowledge, I’ve been having less issues as they filled out the tent.

I probably don’t need too, but they say to get it in a range of 5.8-6.2, so when it’s 6.5 I throw a little in. We do have really hard water (mountain/glacier runoff) and have a softener too. If things get worse I may look at getting RO water or even a system, but things seem ti have settled out. I’ve been hardly phing lately, but I’m still getting some issues, which is what’s leading me to the slightly imperfect PH.

Yeah I may just try not adjusting it unless it gets wild out, but that’s why we experiment and try things.