Can't grow right

PadawanWarrior

PadawanWarrior

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DoubleAtotheRON said:
For those of you saying PH doesn't matter in soil, if it wasn’t for @Renfro s advise on getting a good ph meter, we would have lost an entire 20x30 room. I was chasing my tail trying to figure out what was going wrong. After his advise on getting a good meter, I found my soil had crashed. After a hard correction, all went well to the finish. The man knows his stuff. I use it every day and sometimes I will find that I have to make small corrections now and then before it gets out of hand.
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That statement is partly right. If you're growing organically the microbes should buffer the soil for you. But pH still matters.

What type of soil are you using again?

You're giving them bottled chemicals though in your soil, correct? I think that stuff can lower the pH of the soil, and if you're using pH down it can lower the pH over time too.

But ya, Renfro's the man. I knew it was him who taught you. I was following along when he was. I was just playing. That was the first time I think I saw your awesome setup actually.
 
PJ Diaz

PJ Diaz

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It's true that microbes will help to buffer the soil ph, but don't forget that they have to work to do it. Give the microbes a break, and give them a a steady ph they like, so they can spend their energy on more positive things for your plants.
 
Mmcary82

Mmcary82

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Can't grow right said:
Hey everyone
I am having such a hard time I am ripping my hair out
I currently have a 3 tent set up. 1 4x4 for veg, 1 4x8 for flower and 1 2x4 for mothers. They are run as good as I could make it happen. I have a sub pannel and dedicated breakers for the power. I have 4 in line ventilation fans completely cycling the air from each room many times a minute. The air is drawn from a completely opposite side of the basment and the exhaust is vented outside. All vents are run with hard metal lines and sealed with mastic as metalic tape as a backup. 0 leaks
I am running a small 4 bulb 2 foot t5 over my dwc clone box and on the bottom shelf for the 1 gallon clones I run a 4 lamp t5 about 10 inches above the plants ( I have been growing for years so I understand the proper heights )
I run R.O. water that comes out with a literal .02 pom when it comes out of the faucet and I used ForFarm ocean forest in hydrofarm square plastic pots on top of a small bed of hydro corn places in the overflow tray to give an air gap beneath the pot and the tray
I am extremely clean, the area is well cared for
I understand watering practices and I am adept at not over or under watering
When I do a slurry test or just a runoff test, my pmm comes out around 500 and the p.h. reads 6.4

Despite all that, despite administering a Nectar for the Gods regiment I fully understand and have researched
My plants lock out nutrients and don't grow correctly.
I flush when I start to see it happen, and it still doesn't matter. They damage is done, and they grow like shit if at all
What the fuck is happening. This is the 3rd year I have been trying and I have been slinging thousands of dollars, and hours into it and still getting nowhere
I can not understand what the fuck is wrong with me
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