advanced nutrients and ph levels
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Illegal Smile
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I never count on any commercial claim being true. Maybe they help and if so that is good, but I doubt they can be self adjusting. Call and ask exactly what they mean and are they assuming you are starting with distilled or ro water? I use Humboldt Master A&B and their claim is a little different. They don't claim to impact pH levels but they say their nutes can be absorbed over a wider range. I do let my pH swing wider than I used to, and with no effect at all.
Mr.Therapy Man
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You dont even have to check the ph its a perfect 6.0 no matter what you put in it.Ive used the 3 part and guano series in AN and its great for new growers.Watch out for thar guano grow its HOT
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I've used AN micro/grow/bloom and pH was all over the place.
redi jedi
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I use Sensi Grow/Bloom with regular tap water. My tap water PH ranges from 7.3-7.5 after adding my nutes the ph drops to 6.2-6.3 without using any PH down. I then lower the PH to 5.6 as per the AN nutrient calculator on their website. I have a DWC setup using 5gal buckets with a remote res, I notice after adjusting the PH in the res it drifts back up to 6.0-6.1 on its own. There are no plants in the res and theres no way the water in the buckets can get back to the res. So its definitely not the plants causing the increase in PH, in the res. So I would say yes the PH is self adjusting, at least with Sensi Grow/Bloom anyways....
Geneticfreak
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I use the same stuff and mine does the same! WTH? Are those ph levels even ok? Mine always drifts to about 6.2.
ShoAL paTroL
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that stuff was all over the place with its ph for me.ill never use there line again.imo i think its crap.i have to say that go's for most of the heads i know..everybody had the same issue with the ph.it seams to me there buffers dont seam to work well with hard water.i use canna now it starts out at 5.5 then buy the end of the week its 6.3 at the day i change my res.i used to go threw gangs of ph down when i use sensi.
ShoAL paTroL
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u want your ph to rise slowly threw the week.u dont want to keep it at 5.8 everyday.u want it to go up slowly.if it jumps up in a matter of hours not days u gotta keep adding buffers and thats not good.imo
yup... I use GH and amn't having any pH issues at all. I simply assume AN is good because of the price, but don't ever buy it because the AN websites are scammy looking as shit.
I use AN 3 part with R/O water and depending on the concentration and the ratio of grow, micro, and bloom I use, I usually end up with a PH of between 5.5 and 5.7 everytime. I will usually add a ml or two of potassium hydroxide to raise the PH to around 5.8. My system is drain to waste, so once I dial in my PH, it's steady until the reservoir is empty. Needless to say, the bottles of PH up and down that I have will be around for years!
Trunk5
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it all depended on when you had your advanced products. the ph buffers were added recently to there line so not all of there nutes had them to start with. the first time i bought my sensi 2 part the ph i had to ajust, now that i went out and bought a new stock of it it has the ph buffers and i barely have to ph anything. i do know that there comeing out with there "system" at the end of the year here in the us. this is sopose to ph everything perfectly and keep it stable with out checking ph at all, and there combineing more products togeather. 1. to make it easier to feed your plants there whole line, and 2. to spend less on packageing so they can lower there prices "i was told about 30% cheeper". i myself im waiting for the system to come out, i want to test it out and see if its all it claims to be, also my hydro store is selling kushie kush 58.98 per 1L bottle. i was kinda excited to see that in person, but im still doing a little research on what strain of kush i want to grow.