Ph problems
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Guccizillaa
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buy ph up and down at home depot or lowes. You get a shit load of it for 7 bucks. Its where all the pool stuff is. Add it to your res to get your ph where you want it.
bird mcbride
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Lumber store open there? Are you using drip feeders or ebb and flow (flood and drain)
mr2shim
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Don't worry about pH that early on. People make this mistake soo many times. Don't start dumping pH up and down into your res. I haven't checked pH for a plant in YEARS. I have a seedling going now, it's on 5 days since sprout and the pH is whatever, I don't have a clue to be honest. I don't check it and I don't pH up or down it. People will disagree with me blah blah blah, but a seedling doesn't need or use nutrients so why are you worried about the pH? All it's doing is uptaking water. When you start adding nutrients to the water, depending on what you use they have buffers in them so checking pH is even more pointless.
But you can use pH down if you choose to, I have and it works.
But you can use pH down if you choose to, I have and it works.
bird mcbride
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In my F&D system I use dolomite lime from a lumber yard. I use a color tester and I add just enough to turn it almost yellow but still green, about 5.5ph on this color chart. 6.5ph is hard green on this scale. The water I use comes in blue around 7 or more because the scale drops off at 7ph. I do this one everytime I change the water every 5-7 days. Every so often I do a run at seven to chech the run off of the table and do minor adjustments. I use the spent water from my budders on my mothers and it keeps them happy and green.
Guccizillaa
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You must live in a city with good water then. Where i live the ph of the tap water is 7.5. When i water my plants with it, it makes my medium 7.1 which gives me a minor phosphorus lock out. So for some grows it can be a need. Id trade shoes with you though, it'd save me some money lol.
PersonalJesus
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Did you soak your rockwool? I soak my rockwool in pH balanced water for like 2 hours to rinse out sediment and to neutralize some of that pH shifting
Yeah got Ph up and down ,just seem to be using SHITLOADS of the stuff....? is that good for the girls
Ok so there getting nutes now and not lookin to bad (bout 30cm from clones been under lites(600w) for bout 3 weeks) and you reckon just water the buggers ? Its so hard to know as newbie because ive heard both storys , Person 1 says , must have Ph between 5.5 and 6.2 then person 2 tells me that hes been growing for yearsand is using town water and has never Phed . spose i will just have to see what happens , Cheers Bro Happy Grow
yeah my town water is 7.2 , that why im cofused LOL
No ive been told that could be my problem ! But they are looking to good at the moment to mess with ......? i can some times only get to my room every 2nd day and i leave the Ph @ bout 5.5 when i leave and 2 days later it can be as high as 7.6? . But like i said im just worried because even thou they are lookin quite fine and seem to be growing ( being new im not sure how quick they shoould grow)everyone goes on bout Ph.. Thanks for reply man . Happy Grow