I got another meter and the litmus test strips and it confirmed that the tap water where I am is super high PH, something on the neighborhood of low to mid eights. That's gonna be a bitch. I am waiting to germinate a seed until the CMH comes tomorrow to help warm it up, I also got a heating mat and a germination starter to warm it up into the eighties, hopefully.
Mephisto Genetics First Grow Ever: Northern Lights Haze with Quantum Board and Bubble Bucket
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Your tap water provider will confirm that finding.
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If you are on any kind of municipal water supply (city water), then they usually pH the water up to between 8 an 9 to prevent the leeching of copper and lead into the water. Also depending on where you live, they may use both chlorine AND chloramine to decontaminate the water. The easiest way to find out what’s in your water is to get your hands on the quarterly or annual water authority report for your area. If you’re on a well, well...you have what you have and what’s in your aquifer is the result of what’s in the surrounding soil and subsurface rock.
Yeah, I am in the city so the PH is high. Not sure how to request a water test to be sure.
So right now I got the 630 watt running today, and the seedling, a Northern Cheese Haze, is started in a root riot and in the humidity thing with a heat mat.
The light is putting off way more heat than quantum board was and the thermometer on the wall, a heat probe from the heating map and a temperature thing I stuck on the tent wall show its going to take the tent temperature from a bit under sixty Fahrenheit right now to a bit under eighty Fahrenheit I think after I keep it running for some more hours to know what the temperature in the tent will be, I'll take the seedling starter and put it in the tent. I hope it only increases it by about twenty degrees Fahrenheit to a bit under eighty, that would be what I want.
You guys are a really big help, thanks a lot.
So right now I got the 630 watt running today, and the seedling, a Northern Cheese Haze, is started in a root riot and in the humidity thing with a heat mat.
The light is putting off way more heat than quantum board was and the thermometer on the wall, a heat probe from the heating map and a temperature thing I stuck on the tent wall show its going to take the tent temperature from a bit under sixty Fahrenheit right now to a bit under eighty Fahrenheit I think after I keep it running for some more hours to know what the temperature in the tent will be, I'll take the seedling starter and put it in the tent. I hope it only increases it by about twenty degrees Fahrenheit to a bit under eighty, that would be what I want.
You guys are a really big help, thanks a lot.
Update: Temperature is 82 to 83 in the tent without air exchange, just to keep it hot to germinate the seed, but the humidity is too high for after the seedling stage according to the gauge, its nearly eighty, as well. I found a dehumidifier in the basement from the old owner that I didn't know was there, sweet, so I started running that.
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Water companies usually put water info on their website. Including pH and it's make up.
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I accidentally took off the first two growing leaf things when I took the shell off the seedling today, now there are only the cotyledon feeding things left. Is it ruined? Did I just fuck up another ten dollar leaf put myself ten days behind? Jesus Christ, I'll not get a gram in my life at this rate.
Let it go for a bit and she how she reacts to it. Don't be too quick to start over if you don't have to.
i do think I took the first set of leaf off it. Can it still grow without those?
I'm such an idiot.
I'm such an idiot.
Its still alive, growing taller, has roots, and a set of its first leaves and the grow tip. I wish I had my smartphone for some pictures but I lost it about a month ago and can't find it. I think I gotta bite the bullet and get a new one tomorrow, anyhow. Is three days too early for some light strength nutrients to pour on the top of it? Should I wait a bit on that or get on that? Thanks in advance.
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