keysareme
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Hey Brothers and Sisters.
She has grown up, into a Beautiful Young Lady with a full seven shoots. I had not pruned her for awhile, and when I felt she was healthy and strong again I did so, removing all the calmg deficient leaves that had slowly degraded.
All growth was vibrant and healthy, till I decided to supplement true ph indicator drops with fish aquarium indicator drops that measured a minimum of 6, and any level lower would just show as a 6. I had used what was left of the true indicator drops at previous feeding and felt that I had about another week till more drops would be necessary, she ate up and dried out within three days, which was half of the time it took her to eat previously.
I felt that she needed to be fed cause her overall weight in the fabric pot was back to around what I've felt when she was dry and and ready for more food. The local facilities to acquire proper ph indicator drops were not open at that time, and I went to the local pet stores instead.
A kind suggestion, do not use aquarium pH indicator drops.
I fed her a huge meal, with lots of calcium and lots of magnesium, the organic nutrients we are growing with are calcium based, lot's of calcium sources for her to choose from. (This is where the ph was off)
Again she ate it all within three days, I went to our local farm facility and acquired the proper ph indicator drops in bulk, refilled the dropper bottle that has the ph range scale.
Well, I went and tested that batch of food, there was some remaining, the one with lots of calcium and lot of magnesium, and it was very red and very orange, and very acidic, and very harmful for her well being.
She had one full feeding of that very potent low ph meal, about that batch I was excited as I had kept adding a little of this, and little more of that, and was feeling a strong confidence about the quality content of food that was available in that batch, ph of around 5-5.5 though and she is in organic soil, topped with coco, too low and caused harm.
Since that feeding, she has had another feeding, which was for sure right around 6.3-6.5, and again she is already dried out and ready for more. She is taking a half gallon each meal.
I did acquire a bluelab ph pen, and ran that in the most recent batch of food, and the readings seemed to be a consistent .5 off, as the ph indicator drops showed 6.3-6.5 (I'm consistently determining what shade it actually is and what light to hold it up to to get the correct hue and saturation), and the bluelab ph pen showed 5.9, I have confidence that the ph was actually 6.4.
Will get the proper ph 7 and ph 4 (or 10) calibration solution for the bluelab, and I will have accurate ph from here on out.
Would this one watering, that was now two feedings ago, of the acidic 5ish ph cause her more harm than the already showing and noticeable calmg and purple stems?
We won over this before (back in week 3), and the way we did it was to flush with an organic compost tea, and follow with another flush of a bone meal based organic nutrient to stabilize the ph of the soil again.
Week 3 was an accumulation though, a week of harmful occurrences, not just one feeding with a low ph of around 5.
Will she recover now that the current food is, and has been for the most recent watering, at the proper ph?
New growth is looking healthy, nodes are slightly closer together than previous ones on the shoots, the new leaves though are still growing in with 7 fingers, and reaching nearly full size.
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Her sister is a tall girl, and I put her under 2700k spectrum in the same tent for encouragement of bushing out. She is in coco, and too had a feeding that was off her desired ph, same thing was with the aquarium ph drops. She has also had a proper feeding since, and fresh growth is looking healthier.
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These three little girls are quite beautiful as well. Sprouted from seed, now under a 65w 6500k.
Have you seen this particular type of growth?
She is a resilient and determined girl. Her cotyledon was separated from tap root at germination, and then re planted amidst a bed of mykos, placed the cotyledon right a top the tap root on a bed of mykos, did not water her, and when I did water her, she took off.
She has grown up, into a Beautiful Young Lady with a full seven shoots. I had not pruned her for awhile, and when I felt she was healthy and strong again I did so, removing all the calmg deficient leaves that had slowly degraded.
All growth was vibrant and healthy, till I decided to supplement true ph indicator drops with fish aquarium indicator drops that measured a minimum of 6, and any level lower would just show as a 6. I had used what was left of the true indicator drops at previous feeding and felt that I had about another week till more drops would be necessary, she ate up and dried out within three days, which was half of the time it took her to eat previously.
I felt that she needed to be fed cause her overall weight in the fabric pot was back to around what I've felt when she was dry and and ready for more food. The local facilities to acquire proper ph indicator drops were not open at that time, and I went to the local pet stores instead.
A kind suggestion, do not use aquarium pH indicator drops.
I fed her a huge meal, with lots of calcium and lots of magnesium, the organic nutrients we are growing with are calcium based, lot's of calcium sources for her to choose from. (This is where the ph was off)
Again she ate it all within three days, I went to our local farm facility and acquired the proper ph indicator drops in bulk, refilled the dropper bottle that has the ph range scale.
Well, I went and tested that batch of food, there was some remaining, the one with lots of calcium and lot of magnesium, and it was very red and very orange, and very acidic, and very harmful for her well being.
She had one full feeding of that very potent low ph meal, about that batch I was excited as I had kept adding a little of this, and little more of that, and was feeling a strong confidence about the quality content of food that was available in that batch, ph of around 5-5.5 though and she is in organic soil, topped with coco, too low and caused harm.
Since that feeding, she has had another feeding, which was for sure right around 6.3-6.5, and again she is already dried out and ready for more. She is taking a half gallon each meal.
I did acquire a bluelab ph pen, and ran that in the most recent batch of food, and the readings seemed to be a consistent .5 off, as the ph indicator drops showed 6.3-6.5 (I'm consistently determining what shade it actually is and what light to hold it up to to get the correct hue and saturation), and the bluelab ph pen showed 5.9, I have confidence that the ph was actually 6.4.
Will get the proper ph 7 and ph 4 (or 10) calibration solution for the bluelab, and I will have accurate ph from here on out.
Would this one watering, that was now two feedings ago, of the acidic 5ish ph cause her more harm than the already showing and noticeable calmg and purple stems?
We won over this before (back in week 3), and the way we did it was to flush with an organic compost tea, and follow with another flush of a bone meal based organic nutrient to stabilize the ph of the soil again.
Week 3 was an accumulation though, a week of harmful occurrences, not just one feeding with a low ph of around 5.
Will she recover now that the current food is, and has been for the most recent watering, at the proper ph?
New growth is looking healthy, nodes are slightly closer together than previous ones on the shoots, the new leaves though are still growing in with 7 fingers, and reaching nearly full size.
--------
Her sister is a tall girl, and I put her under 2700k spectrum in the same tent for encouragement of bushing out. She is in coco, and too had a feeding that was off her desired ph, same thing was with the aquarium ph drops. She has also had a proper feeding since, and fresh growth is looking healthier.
--------
These three little girls are quite beautiful as well. Sprouted from seed, now under a 65w 6500k.
Have you seen this particular type of growth?
She is a resilient and determined girl. Her cotyledon was separated from tap root at germination, and then re planted amidst a bed of mykos, placed the cotyledon right a top the tap root on a bed of mykos, did not water her, and when I did water her, she took off.
