New Grower Got a Couple Of Questions For You Pros

[Musturd]

Hi Gardner, Have you checked your runoff ph? you may find 6.5 in 6.0 out= 5.5 ( next water at 7.2 ) or 6.2 in 6.8 out= 7.2 (next water at 5.8)
Dolomite lime 2tbl per gallon mixed into your soil will help keep soil stable.

 

[Gardner420]

What do I have to do or go to make the link show up for my current grow for people to click on???

 

[Gardner420]

I haven't checked my run off and what do I do if I dont have Dolomite lime, when you say water at 7.2, your saying adjust the PH to 7.2 when I water???

 

[Musturd]

I haven't checked my run off and what do I do if I dont have Dolomite lime, when you say water at 7.2, your saying adjust the PH to 7.2 when I water???

If that is what is needed, By measuring ph in and runoff you can get an idea what your soil ph is. If it is low water to raise it if its high water to lower it aiming for 6.5. I had to constantly adjust until I added lime right now I have had a couple waterings at 6.5 in 6.4 out means soil is 6.3.

An example for you, if you water at 6.5 and your runoff is 6.0 your soil is 5.5. next water give it 7.2 you might see run off at 6.6 soil was raised to 6.0, better. I know this can stir some trouble lots of opinions. Some don't check, some know the soil they use well enough to know what to expect. The longer my soil stays stable the less I will check maybe spot check 2 plants instead of all of them. Hope this helps.

 

[Gardner420]

Just watered with just PH'd water at 6.2. I'm getting a runoff of 5.9

 

[Gardner420]

Just watered the second yellowing one. My PH'd water was at 6.8 I got a run off of 6.7​

 

[Gardner420]

What soil do you recommend???

 

[Gardner420]

Ok, since I PH'd the soil they seem to be getting taller within the last 2 days...I'll put some pics up later

 

[Musturd]

Woo hoo, Just one more thing to stay on top of to help insure success.


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[Gardner420]

Here are a couple pics of the 4 ladies. You see the one is my runt. Also is a pic of the 12 bulb cfl fixture I made that they are under. I'm keeping them under it for 5 weeks and then Im putting them under my 400HPS. They are 22 days old here