How to Create a Water Recipe for Your Cannabis Grow
Let's talk about how you get healthy plants since we’ve covered how you can lose your plants. Every detail matters, and we have nutrient recipes for every stage, even recipes for our water! You read that right - water recipes.
We have different nutrient recipes based on the age of the plants. Starting with clones, the nutrient recipe really is mainly just water. Even the water has its own recipe. One is RO water versus tap water. I don't know anyone that uses just plain tap water unless they're going for cheap and trying hard to save costs.
Many people don't realize that water can have a recipe. Growers will consult local water professionals and they'll figure out the minerals that are in the water currently at that tap and what minerals are best for your plants and they figure out the differences. Then they'll give you these cool filters and dosing that will create the right amount of nutrients and make the mixture come out perfectly.
That's the water you actually use for your plants, completely customized for your operation. So even the water is not normal. There are people out there using well water because it's free. That's not where the cost is going to come from, however so they just don't realize that every little detail matters.
First, you have to figure your water out, then you add the nutrients you need. Then you have your veg recipe and your bloom recipe, but in a real grow, especially on the commercial side, we have recipes based on the week of growth that the plant is in and the strain.
If it's week 3 to 4, it’s going to have one recipe. If it's Electric Lemon G versus Purple Rain, it will be two different recipes. The recipe is just the amount of milliliters per gallon of each nutrient, so it'll max out at certain parts per million.
We have our internal staff that puts all those together, Jason our master grower makes almost all of our nutrient recipes that we have. We've consulted with a couple lab guys that are really smart with this shit.
They develop custom nutrient recipes just for your plants based on all this data. It costs a little bit of money up front, but in the end, you wind up with much healthier, happier plants, so it's worth it.
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.: Adam
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