If you are interested in growing hydroponic blackberries, blueberries, raspberries or strawberries in a greenhouse there really isn't a whole lot of reference materials that I have found on commercial hydroponic nutrient applications. We took a "we'll try these" approach and so far so good:
Blackberries / Strawberries / Raspberries
Flora Micro / Flora Grow during vegitative state at 10ml/gallon
Flora Micro / Flora Bloom during transition and flowering state at 10ml/gallon
Diamond Nectar at 10ml/gallon
Liquid Karma at 10ml/gallon
Sweet (Berry) at 15ml/gallon
Cal-Mag at 8ml/gallon
Flora Kleen at 5ml/gallon
pH at 6.6-6.8
Blueberries - same as above except pH at 4.9-5.1
If you have other ideas or formulas that work, please let us know. We started the plants we received from Burpee at one half of these formulations just to get them started. We changed to full strength after three weeks.
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Sunday, April 10, 2011
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Clean Those Systems!
Our PowerGrower started having problems over the last week. Water was not leveling out in all of the PowerGrower units; water was not dripping from the rings as it should; and one of my pepper plants was starting to have issues.
Well, we just got so busy and we started manually taking water out of the reservoir and distributing it to the PowerGrower units until we could spend a day to really do a lot of work in the grow room. That day came yesterday. We had added FloraKleen to the system last week to help loosen the salts anticipating the cleanup was coming.
What we found:
1. Several plants (Zucchini mainly) had root masses that were so large
that they began to grow back up into the water connection lines
between the pots. The growth choked off the free flow of water
between the pots.
2. The air pump needed a serious cleaning as salt and dust particles
were clogging the normal flow of air to the lines. Several lines
were not functioning at all.
What we accomplished:
1. Since our zucchini plants were had already served us well and were
on their last legs, we removed them from the system. Our yellow
pepper plant was also struggling so we added it to the compost bin.
2. We removed all of the debris from the air pumps, changed several
lines, and ordered a rebuild kit in case the pump went south in the future.
3. We have the system running normally again - Lesson learned
- MAINTENANCE SHOULD NOT BE PUT OFF
Well, we just got so busy and we started manually taking water out of the reservoir and distributing it to the PowerGrower units until we could spend a day to really do a lot of work in the grow room. That day came yesterday. We had added FloraKleen to the system last week to help loosen the salts anticipating the cleanup was coming.
What we found:
1. Several plants (Zucchini mainly) had root masses that were so large
that they began to grow back up into the water connection lines
between the pots. The growth choked off the free flow of water
between the pots.
2. The air pump needed a serious cleaning as salt and dust particles
were clogging the normal flow of air to the lines. Several lines
were not functioning at all.
What we accomplished:
1. Since our zucchini plants were had already served us well and were
on their last legs, we removed them from the system. Our yellow
pepper plant was also struggling so we added it to the compost bin.
2. We removed all of the debris from the air pumps, changed several
lines, and ordered a rebuild kit in case the pump went south in the future.
3. We have the system running normally again - Lesson learned
- MAINTENANCE SHOULD NOT BE PUT OFF
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