I've only used nutes twice (third time today), and curious what is going on. So I always add nutes furst, and then ph. I let it sit for a while then recheck the ph. It's usually the same around 6-6.05ph, and then I water. So far the most I've watered at this stage is half gallon per the 4 for plants, so 2 gallons all together. Ppm usually goes in around 180-182. Runoff check today on each plant showed on average around 5.0 ph, and 900ppm. 1 plant my most horrible one is showing 1200 ppm and 4.7 ph on the runoff. What the hell??? Am I not watering enough, or often enough? How could it be that high only using nute twice? How should I proceed? My grow progress is in my previous posts.
Ro water/calmag/flora trio
Kings mix coco blend
**update**
Got a new ph pen today. Got an Apera ph20. It's far better than what I had, especially after learning how to properly calibrate. The vivosun ph pen I had was literally reading about 1-1.5 ph lower that what it actually was. No clue how the plants made it this far, but water went in today at 5.9-6.0 and though my ppms are a bit high still (few hundred lower on 2, still high on 1, yes that's right 3 plants I lost one being a noob lst'ing ya live & learn) that's far better than 4.8 that was coming out and only God knows what was going in before. Ph runoff
now the ppms. I think I need to water either a day early, or stop having my fan blow through the fabric pots as I think maybe the nutes are drying too fast and possibly building up that way, not sure. I watered with nutes today, gonna do just cal mag next, maybe some rapid start for more roots. I read you have to put nutes through to maintain ph and ppms, that just straight ro won't work good and can shock the plants. That explains doing light nutes now to lower ppm. Thanks guys, I will update. Any advice, tips, criticism welcomed..
