help idk what to do

TigerSquad

TigerSquad

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Omg I over feed my flowering plant and her soil run off Ph is bright red very acidic 5. What will raise the level of my soil to make it slightly more basic. She flowering and I don't want to starve her because the soil is too salty.
 
cassinfo

cassinfo

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Lift the pot up over your head and spin around 5 time counter clockwise. This way it will reverse the PH level. Next, depending on your pot size, fill a 5 gallon bucket of water and let it sit for 24hrs. Throw a Jesus cross pieces in your water bless it. Now spin yourself around 10x and lift that 5 gallon bucket over your head and pour it into your plant. It's called flushing your nutes and salt out. Let it dry and start over. Good luck.
 
R1b3n4

R1b3n4

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cassinfo said:
Lift the pot up over your head and spin around 5 time counter clockwise. This way it will reverse the PH level. Next, depending on your pot size, fill a 5 gallon bucket of water and let it sit for 24hrs. Throw a Jesus cross pieces in your water bless it. Now spin yourself around 10x and lift that 5 gallon bucket over your head and pour it into your plant. It's called flushing your nutes and salt out. Let it dry and start over. Good luck.
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*BUDS

*BUDS

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I have never heard of run off being red in soil What did you feed it?. What soil is it ?
 
TigerSquad

TigerSquad

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A mix of ocean forest from fox farm perlite, and coir mixed with some orchid bark. (because the guy at the plant shop told me they were all that was in those red clay balls that absorb nuits) plies they serve their own benifits
 
Michiganmeds1982

Michiganmeds1982

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Baking soda to bring ph up in the water is what I do. And run like 5-10 gallons of water threw it until your runoff is more of a golden color with the ph test liquid
 
TigerSquad

TigerSquad

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that's what the soil itself is testing. But the run off is what's hot. I'm just confused by the two diffrent readings but I think I'm getting the "water in-soluble" nuits from the fert. The usable nuits get stored in the soil.... Right?
 
TigerSquad

TigerSquad

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Michiganmeds1982 said:
Just flush it untill your runoff ph is good,and if I were you I'd get rid of that soil tester.....
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Thank you for the advice.

I added 1 full table spoon of baking soda & half of an Asprin to 1 gallon of tap water. Then ran it through my plants container. Followed by a half gallon of plain tap water. After the mixture of water started to seep out of the bottom of the container; I checked the soil at the root level, and then the run off.

They were right at 6.0, so I figure: with the baking soda & Asprin still in the soil burning away those salts up, in 2 days It will be in the natural zone.
 
TigerSquad

TigerSquad

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I didn't want to run multiple gallons through the container. The recipe calls for 1\2 table spoon per gallon over 4 gallons.
Hopefully the Asprin brings it up slowly Asprin works very little at a time. but I did a gallon and a half and pused it hard with tap water to flush that too. Problem is the soil has too much perlite I think And the plant starts to tip as the roots get washed out.
 
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