Water: The Most Essential Compound

Kingrow1

Kingrow1

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fabfun said:
did u mix the lime in soil or add to it
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With the lime i bought some fine grade garden lime or dolomite, first i pestle and mortared it to get it finer grade and mainly a fine powder. I added it to water and the top layer of soil and watered in also with a small pinch of epsom salts. Purple stalks and stems started to dissapear in 48 hours so knew that was the root of my problem. Now i mix with the soil before repotting, about a level teaspoon per 2 litres of soil less for seedlings.

Just got my trident meter and when i calibarated it it read pH7 solution as pH6.8, should i be worried? Also it reads ppm in 100's so 1820 ppm is coming out at like 1.9. Hmm not as accurate as i thought but still i suppose good enough for plants. Wish i had gone with the hanna meter now as i'm sure it would be more accurate.

Ok so my water is like pH8 and the ppm is definatly under 100ppm as it reads 0ppm. Good drinking water but not so great for marijuana. Here might be my pH problems and why i have to add so much cal.mag?

I read a lot on aquatic plants and the balance of cal/mag seems to need to be the same, i.e. 200ppm of cal needs roughly 150 to 200 ppm of mag. Raise the cal more to 400ppm and you will get mag problems even though the plant is getting 150ppm of cal still, because garden lime is mainly cal with a little mag i have been under the assumption to add a little mag to the waterings to make up for the low amount of mag in the garden lime.

God damn growing MJ is getting far too technical, i miss not knowing this sh!t but suppose i get far less problems now. Sorry for long posts. Peace
 
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happy Northerner

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very informative thread, just got me a little confussed,

im about to do my first grow, and and trying to do it right the first time,

i have no idea whats what with my water,

so if i were to send a sample off to here http://www.acornwater.com/showprod.php?id=48

and then come back with the results would you be able top give me some advice , i would be very grateful .
i like in the, north east of ''England'' so have no idea if i have hard or soft,

i dont get any scale/lime build up in m,y kettle it gets used alot , so that might mean i have very soft water ? which is bad , so really after a testing kit, and the link above is the only 1 i can find .

kind regard's
 
kmksrh21

kmksrh21

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Probably nothing is wrong with tap water at ph 6.3... Where I live the tap water is 7.4 ph... not good... So I strictly use ph 6.5 distilled store bought water. Great thread BTW... Just sayin' bongsmilie:mrgreen:
 
kmksrh21

kmksrh21

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I liked what you had to say about this thread being a sticky... it's deserving, as far as the beef between you and DOGG I don't know what sparked that, but I blaze a big bongsmilie for all y'all.
 
fabfun

fabfun

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kmksrh21 said:
I liked what you had to say about this thread being a sticky... it's deserving, as far as the beef between you and DOGG I don't know what sparked that, but I blaze a big bongsmilie for all y'all
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never met him so i think it a member doc had problems with and guy got banned and has trolled him and me since with fake profiles
only reason i can think for a newbie to be so rude

so i guess he asked where's the beef
:cuss:
 
kmksrh21

kmksrh21

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That's what I was thinking... everytime I see a new member with minimal posts being rude and abnoxious right off the bat, I just assume it's someone who has been banned in the past and can offer nothing positive towards the main reasons I joined and actively follow this site. To grow some bomb ass ganja!! Which is my priority anywayz:eyesmoke:
 
fabfun

fabfun

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kmksrh21 said:
That's what I was thinking... everytime I see a new member with minimal posts being rude and abnoxious right off the bat, I just assume it's someone who has been banned in the past and can offer nothing positive towards the main reasons I joined and actively follow this site. To grow some bomb ass ganja!! Which is my priority anywayz:eyesmoke:
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well since doc aint here to deal with the haters i guess i will take his place
so bring it :cuss:
 
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waters A particular stretch of sea or ocean, especially that of a state or country: escorted out of British waters.

A clear, colorless, odorless, and tasteless liquid, H2O, essential for most plant and animal life and the most widely used of all solvents. Freezing point 0°C (32°F); boiling point 100°C (212°F); specific gravity (4°C) 1.0000; weight per gallon (15°C) 8.338 pounds (3.782 kilograms).

Naturally occurring mineral water, as at a spa. Often used in the plural.

he valuation of the assets of a business firm beyond their real value.

To reduce the strength or effectiveness of: "It seemed clear by late autumn that the ban would be significantly watered down or removed altogether before the trade bill became law" (George R. Packard).

water under the bridge
  1. A past occurrence, especially something unfortunate, that cannot be undone or rectified: All that is now just water under the bridge.


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dannyboy602

dannyboy602

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What has amazed me from the time I started studying plant biology is how a plant can move massive amounts of water in some cases, against gravity, through xylem cells, in an unbroken column of water from the root tips to the very top of the canopy.
It is a kind of miracle. If water molecules did not have the ability to stick together, oh how different the world would be.
 
Kingrow1

Kingrow1

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You can put a sealed bag on a tree branch for 24hours and the bag will have a lot of water in it the next day, good trick for the desert or when no water is around and the water is pure too, plants are amazing.
 
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