New grower, first grow, help plz

You don't want to strip your soil, Brother.
No shower action:shooty:
 
I use totes from WallyWorld, with cheap racks (I'll send a pic tomorrow).
Let's do this gently:pighug:
If you don't have racks, bricks or even inverted bowls will get your gals above the water line.:thumbsup:
A nice, easy 20% of fresh, pHed water:toke:
 
I went to dollar tree and got these little metal baskets, and invert them in a pan to keep bags out of water

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:pass:Boomer, sorry for the delay bud,...:help: <-- this is me! :haha:

...okay, GO Box nutes- :thumbsup:,... are those dosages per gallon? If so, your're underfeeding them; organics are pretty mild in NPK#'s, and take time to get broken down by the soil microbes into available forms,... do you use any sort of inoculant? Enzyme product (like Hygrozyme)? Promix by itself is very mild, so no help there!... It's great that you're watching your inputs pH, but keep in mind that not a reflection of actual in-pot pH, there are several other influencing factors that change medium pH's,... so, best thing to use is something like an Accurate 8 soil pH probe, for direct measurement! (skip the skinny cheapo probes you see all over, they suck!)... otherwise, it's the dubious run-off method/calculation, though there's an improved version here ( https://www.autoflower.org/threads/...-testing-and-ph-estimation.41733/#post-928975 )... Now that said, with organics, you're not dealing with ionic salts, so the watering/feeding to run-off isn't necessary unless you've really overdone it,... Fact is, peat is very water retentive, and kept too wet will smother and cause wilting from root damages,... BUT I'm not convinced you need to go there with the run-off pH test yet, though the common belief is that you never need to check media pH with organics... that's a very conditional thing from what I've seen! ... Symptoms I'm seeing look mostly like P defc., so let me know about your dosage to determine if you're underfeeding for sure... it does look it though... and at this stage, there's not much room for improvement yield-wise, but squeezing all you can with good quality is worth the effort!
 
:pass:Boomer, sorry for the delay bud,...:help: <-- this is me! :haha:

...okay, GO Box nutes- [emoji106],... are those dosages per gallon? If so, your're underfeeding them; organics are pretty mild in NPK#'s, and take time to get broken down by the soil microbes into available forms,... do you use any sort of inoculant? Enzyme product (like Hygrozyme)? Promix by itself is very mild, so no help there!... It's great that you're watching your inputs pH, but keep in mind that not a reflection of actual in-pot pH, there are several other influencing factors that change medium pH's,... so, best thing to use is something like an Accurate 8 soil pH probe, for direct measurement! (skip the skinny cheapo probes you see all over, they suck!)... otherwise, it's the dubious run-off method/calculation, though there's an improved version here ( https://www.autoflower.org/threads/...-testing-and-ph-estimation.41733/#post-928975 )... Now that said, with organics, you're not dealing with ionic salts, so the watering/feeding to run-off isn't necessary unless you've really overdone it,... Fact is, peat is very water retentive, and kept too wet will smother and cause wilting from root damages,... BUT I'm not convinced you need to go there with the run-off pH test yet, though the common belief is that you never need to check media pH with organics... that's a very conditional thing from what I've seen! ... Symptoms I'm seeing look mostly like P defc., so let me know about your dosage to determine if you're underfeeding for sure... it does look it though... and at this stage, there's not much room for improvement yield-wise, but squeezing all you can with good quality is worth the effort!
Dosage were ml/L. And want using anything but the go box till I ran just the straight Ph'd water to 20% runoff in which case I picked up a komplete enzyme cleaner from the hydro store I'll post info on it when I get home.and can snap a pic of the bottle. Here are some pics from this morning

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I am running a go box right now and im running the schedule from the back of the box with no issues

if ya look it says on the box no need to ph

Just fyi
It does say on the box not to ph the food but I found mixing the nutes into my water when I did ph it every other often just for piece of mind my feed was coming out 5.8-to even as low as 5.6. Seemed the stronger I mixed the feed the lower my ph kept getting

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... that's why I disagree with the no pH'ing organic nutes! I've used GO Box too, and organics can make feed soln. too low in pH... I think the manufacturers say that because most pH adjusting products are synthetic in chemistry, and as such can be detrimental to soil life, and they are KING in organics! Most pH up's are some sort of hydroxide,... is yours so? And what's the water source? I ask because water with some mineral content (hardness), CaCO3, will help with buffering,... now that enzyme product is for helping break down the tougher things in there, and help cycle the nutes faster between the 'crobes and plant.... I'd up your nute conc. like Sniper suggested, over a few successive feedings, not all at once, and watch how she reacts,... use that BioBud too! You're well into bud formation, and PK demand is high now,...
 
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