Outdoor HELP! Yellowing Bottom Leaves!

[Mr Piggy]

Time to get a ph meter. I use this one for soil, pricy but it's one of the only soil probe ones that work. Anything less is usually trash.
https://www.google.com/shopping/pro...a=X&ei=g07oUZqeMMaziwLYu4HAAQ&ved=0CFUQ8wIwAA

 

[ojuyn]

Time to get a ph meter. I use this one for soil, pricy but it's one of the only soil probe ones that work. Anything less is usually trash.
https://www.google.com/shopping/pro...a=X&ei=g07oUZqeMMaziwLYu4HAAQ&ved=0CFUQ8wIwAA

I Went to the local hydo store and got my base water and runoff water tested.
From my memory the results were
Base EC= 1100 μS/cm
Base Ph= 7.5

Runoff TDS- 1200 μS/cm
Runoff Ph= 7.8

I Believe because I have a water softener, That there was a build up of salts and minerals in the pots.
So I went and got a big-Ol-jug of reverse osmosis water to Flush them out (which I did today). I also picked up some CaNO3 to foliage feed them the nitrogen their lacking until they're back to normal.
I Picked up DNF 2 Part Bloom aswell to get them off those hardware store nutes!
Hopefully By tomorrow or Sunday I will start to see them recovering.
Btw can't I stick to good old pH test Paper (litmus).
Thanks everyone for the help so far! I Will keep you Posted!!!stylez rasta smoke

 

[kushaddict]

It will get worse before it gets better....

 

[ojuyn]

After the flush Im Guessing to wait until next watering to give them nutes again?!

 

[michaelj]

thank you, I'm a nubie too and found this very helpful

 

[Shifty007]

Wouldn't have hurt to flush with a light mute solution. You said you went to the hydro store so can you afford a 10 buck bottle of nutes? Would help you a lot and be enough for all your plants to finish.

 

[Mr Piggy]

An emergency flush should be just pure water, but I don't see why one would be needed in this case.

 

[ojuyn]

Everything is going great In about a week everyone can see the harvest pics!