Ph emergency plz hlp

johnnyblizzo

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One of my babys is 2wks into flowering shes dark grn lil leaves on buds r urling downwards -3g pot ffof soil -ff nutes full line - flushed with 6.4-6 .6 well water then gave a gallon of half strength food with a tsp of maxicrop waz bout to relax rrmembered i didnt check runoff - it was in d low 5s didnt even change the color of the test strip - addedba cpl
morr handfuls of lime made another gallon jacked d ph over 7 run off d same how is it possible made another gallon hacked ph to 8 run off now in low 6s- barely -what should i do im completely lost here love soil for d taste but afta today im almost considerin d dro agn :0/ plz hlp me out guys i dont wann completely fuk her up shes d 1st -i kno some o ya can relate
 

bluetick

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Dude...chill. I say that easily now after I screwed up mine before but got help here as well. It is more impt what you put in than what the run off is. Throw away the test strips and buy a digital pH meter. If you think you have put the wront pH in them, low or high then you have to flush it with 3x amount of water to the size of container they are in ( if it is soil). I didn't see if you said soil or what. Let them then dry out to almost bone dry before you add again. Not sure what affect it will have on them since they are in flower but I assume they will come back to normal.
 

bluetick

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You need to also give it some time to come back to life and for the flush to take effect. Once you water again give it some molasses and superthrive, 1 drop per gallon.
 

johnnyblizzo

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You need to also give it some time to come back to life and for the flush to take effect. Once you water again give it some molasses and superthrive, 1 drop per gallon.
since the last food i put in was phd at 8 even though the runoff was in the low 6s should i jus flush it all over again immediately? Also when u flush arent u supposed to give a mild nutrient solution so they have some food? I was told told flush 3x water right after haf strength food then bone dry then full strength and water next two times is tht wrong?
 

bluetick

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Flush with plain water pH at 6.5 or so is fine. No lower than 6.0. Use 3x the water to the size of the bucket, so if it is a 5 gal bucket, give it 15 gals of water only. The last gallon you can add some molasses to it and some superthrive but not a lot. There is not a need I don't think to give it some nutes since they are already in the plant and it will use it up what is there. Give it water only but make sure the water is pH correctly. That is more impt than the runoff always.

If you have done this all you can do is sit back and wait and let it do it's thing. The places that have burned up or whatever has happend to them might not recover and most times won't but the new growth will be fine. Just flush, give last gallon with some molasses and superthrive, 1 drop per gal of super thrive and then let it get almost bone dry before you add the nutes again that you were adding for flower. Don't forget to check the pH before you add them. That is what I did and almost wiped out my entire crop dude. Like my friend RockyTopHigh said... You won't make that mistake again. :hump: Good luck, but things will be fine. I know anybody hates to get this far to screw it all up.
 

bluetick

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Just flush with water dude.. pH it correctly first. Nutes won't hurt I don't guess. Depending on what type nutes you are using. Fox Farms Big Bloom and Tiger Bloom are used 1st 4 weeks before you have to give it plain water. The flushing is the most impt part to get that bad stuff out of there and give the plant time to suck up the remaining bad stuff before it reaches the water.
 
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