PH problems in my soil. Need help asap.
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poundofyourfinest
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It’s definitely not the same as growing tomatoes. You gotta find what works best with your set up you’ll get it
But like i said i had great success with my first grow. Pulled 10 oz off of 6 females and 1 hermie(only had a couple male flowers so i kept it) all top shelf meds. And this one was great untill i transplanted to a 2 gal pot. Then it went to shit. I had 7 like this.
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poundofyourfinest
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That’s how it goes you have to find what you did differently then. Something changed maybe you got a bad batch of soil. Something is wrong with your soil or water. I’d transplant them to fresh soil with mycorrhizae and just water a couple weeks and watch the new growth, if you transplant don’t worry about the old growth just concentrate on whether the new growth looks good. If they don’t get better it’s your water
poundofyourfinest
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Just poke at the bottom of the soil, shake it a little it’ll come off
Shape Shifter
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There is plenty of good tap water out there that is safe to use for plants. There is also plenty of bad tap water. It helps to know exactly what your tap water contains before using it for plants.
Shape Shifter
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Alabama has soft water in the entire state. Much less than 330ppm. The OP can tell us what his ppm is with a $10 TDS meter. It's probably fine water to use.
There isn't anything wrong with tap water in the vast majority of cases. If you can drink the water, so can your plants. If you're worried, have your state/province health department do an analysis on it (in Canada it is free, and in some states at least, it is too). People have been using tap water forever. If your tap water is below 200-250 PPM, you should use a Calcium and Magnesium supplement, especially if growing in water-based hydro, or inert medium such as coco or peat.
Also, the level of Chlorine in tap water is not harmful to your plants at all. Same thing again, if you can drink it...
To boot, most municipalities use Chloramine along with or instead of Chlorine, and Chloramine does not evaporate like Chlorine, so your evaporation regimen may not be doing anything anyhow.
Shape Shifter
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Yeah. That is a better pic. If you haven't been stingy with nutes. You got locked out. The only way to fix that is to flush the media well. You said you did that, but how did you do it? You need to use a chelating agent for a proper flush.
Herb & Suds
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No he doesn't I have grown in soil /promix for decades and use straight well water and never check PH
Why would you even say such nonsense?
To the OP I don't know what kind of PH tester you ordered but it won't be accurate in soil
My best guess ya locked em out by overfeeding and now the results are beginning to show
Shape Shifter
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Some people have bad (high ppm) tap water. They can benefit from using RO or diluting their tap water with RO.
Congratulations! You have good tap water. Probably live in Oregon.
Some states (I don't know how many) will do free water analysis at the health department. It provides a detailed breakdown of all elements in the water, and at what levels they are present. It usually works by someone going in and saying something to the effect that their water tastes funny and you're worried. They'll give you a bag with instructions and a sample bottle. You go home, fill out the paperwork, put the water into the bottle and return it. A few weeks (or however long) later, you get the results, usually in the mail.
With that knowledge, even at a high PPM, a nutrient solution might be able to be tailored to fit the high PPM water.
Shape Shifter
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People that live in cities of 100k or more will likely have a water department website with the relevant water stats. Mine does. The only way to know exactly what the water contains is to have it tested. Mine is pretty close to what the city reports. I have higher levels of lead due to miles of old pipework.
poundofyourfinest
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I said what I did because it’s what I and many others have experienced, like I said he needs to figure out what works for him in his set up. I’ve had this through 2 houses now. Why would you come here and act like everything you do works for everyone else? You said pretty much the same thing as me just with different words. Having a high ppm in tap water is helping the lock out. He doesn’t seem to be using promix by the pictures. You must be 18, fuck outta here!
poundofyourfinest
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Maybe you need to lay off the suds they make you stupid!!
Shape Shifter
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Pretty sure the OP has soft water tho. The whole state of AL is soft water.
poundofyourfinest
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We had a toxic dump down our road and everyone getting cancer, they wouldn’t even acknowledge the dump
Shape Shifter
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I can see why your plants didn't like that water.
As I said earlier... if you can drink it, so can your plants.
That's tremendously horrible to hear about your area. Disgusting, actually. Sounds like a case for Erin Brockovich.
Well i live in down town san francisco ca. Our tap water is fine and its all i used on my last grow and never had a problem. And yes i flushed them all but i didny know anything about a chleating agent. Everything i read just said use 2 times the size of the pot worth of water to flush. I actually used one guys remedy off youtube. After i flushed i used about a half gal of fish tank water to top it off. It didnt fix that plant completley but its the only one that started turning green within 2 days.