Hey guys, hoping for some Christmas Eve advice.
I have 4 different varieties of autoflower planted in 5 gallon buckets, all using the same potting soil I bought at lowes.
The last week they've started going yellow, and a different variety that I planted a week after them has actually surpassed them in size, because I was growing it in some soil I'd already used from a previous grow.
I tested the pH of the runoff from the buckets I'm having issues with.
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As you can see, wow, it was high! No wonder I'm seeing issues, they are probably having issues with nutrient uptake with the PH f'd up.
I typically water with filtered tap water pH'd to 6.0
I used a large commercial spray bottle, mixed up some water at 5.5. I used a cup to cover each plant and I misted the soil down really heavily with the water so it was nice an soaked, that way it wouldn't just run through really fast. Between the 4 pots, I went through about half a gallon of water. My though process being to try to gently bring down the soil pH, I didn't want to shock it too quickly.
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I now have much greener plants, but all of the leaves are curled up like that.
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Did I shock them with too acidic of water?
They do appear a lot greener than yesterday, so I'm hoping maybe I am on the right path to fixing the nutrient uptake issue?
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I would def get a ph pen ASAP! Forget the runoff tho dig a lil of the soil out the pot from down below the surface! Then test that if u wanna know ph of soil! Runoff isn’t a good test of that!I also just ran a soil pH test kit.
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Its around a 7, maybe a little higher. The color was greener in person in the test tube.
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Ignore my last message didn’t notice the ran a soil test kit part!Thanks man!
Yeah, so I definitely think that is why my gorilla cookies is doing so awesome, its in soil from a previous grow that gave me almost the exact same issues I'm seeing here.
I'll just pH the water at 6 and keep at it and hopefully it flushes out whatever is causing the high base.