New Grower Aksteel First ever Grow

[Lents]

Defiantly PH your water . 6.5 - keep it at that for 2 weeks at 5ml of sensi A & B & Voodo juice in "1 Gallon" 4 Liters of water. ditch the syringe if your using it and use a measuring spoon i had one and is terrible for measuring and i often over feed my plants with it ! . i use tangs scheduled and had phenomenal results !! good luck <3

 

[faded187]

yeah bro! im not sure how much lime to add, but I know it takes like 2 weeks to start working. in the mean time bro start phing your input water and feeds to like 7.2. that will raise your soil ph and use the calcium and magnesium that's already there. don't add more yet. cal and mag get locked out below 6.5. just water the next time with 7.2 like I said. have to ask someone else how much lime to mix or top dress. peace bro

 

[AKsteel]

yeah looks like cal mag bro. whats your soil ph? the nutes might be in there just too low a ph.ya need to find out soil ph before adding more.just my 2 cents brotha. lookin good otherwise. watch out that yoda is trickin you.lolol she gonna shoot outta there like a rocket soon.

Thanks Faded. We will be FIMing the YDB soon. She grows much different than the moonstones. I am hoping the moonstones start to get some height soon, but this being our first grow I don't understand what the plants are telling me yet. Its fun learning though.
Hope Mrs. Steel doesn't kill me when I get home. She has been down with the flu for 3 days and dealing with me nagging about sick plants.
I may be a dead man in a few weeks, but for now I am just a lucky man with a super wife "TT"

 

[AKsteel]

So to combat what we are thinking is a low PH lock out issue the wife and I decided to do a straight water with an increased PH of 8.2. Pretty much straight tap water. Plant #2 soil PH was 5.2 before the watering and 6.1 after. We will continue to monitor the soil PH much closer than we have been. Dolomite lime will be picked up soon and used as a top dressing for the soil. Hopefully this will correct the deficiency. I am still curious as to how the PH dropped so low. We have been using cal/mag and AN ph perfect nutrients since day 10. Nutrient water always was 6.5 when feeding. What did I miss? Any ideas, suggestions or knowledge will be most appreciated. I will repost the pics of plant #2.
Thanks

 

[oldster]

Hi Ak, you didn't miss anything. Pro-mix like a lot of peat based mixes uses limestone to offset the low pH of the peat it contains. With time the limestone gets neutralized by the acid in the peat (normally around day 30-45 in my experience) the pH drops. You can try adding some additional limestone or gypsum (gypsum has a pH around 7 so it will not push pH as high as limestone at the start) for your next grow. What I do is watch my pH regularly and adjust the pH of my water up to keep the soil pH where I want it.

 

[yodabuds]

AKsteel, Im a bit medicated atm to make a proper guess whats going on, but using an nutes for a while I can tell you I always used RO water, never tampered with it, never added anything to get the ppms up to 125 as I've read others doing, I just used the RO and the Sensi PH perfect (actually used the connosiuer line as I preferred the results) never once did I add cal/mag to it as it will screw up the ph buffers of the sensi line, using the sensi line i was told by the an help guy to only use the products that are listed in there monster yield ph perfect feeding chart… I followed and was killing the grows, than got a smart ass and decided to use fox farm as they were out of my sunshine mix #4 and it brought pests along with it, i got over whelmed with life, let my grow room go to hell, got all sorts of pests and pathogens, decided i was going to learn coco, and than switched nutes up and was trying different stuff and had terrible last few grows… I gave things a break got things sorted out and all is well now.. I suggest just let them dry up a bit feed them just so plain water from the tap for a couple of days (leave out bubbled for 24hr to dechlorinate) don't bother with the ph'ing of it the water at this point, water them with some run off for a watering or two than if you can get a small ro filter and start just doing that I think they will all bounce back, also I always use a syrgine when feeding… I mean a teaspoon is 5ml's period… At least with a syringe your not going to be splashing stuff around etc… Man your YDB has given me renewed hope for theses f3's… I need to keep popping several more as it seems there are two phenos again the tall big ass starchy leg girl and the squatter one that I prefer.. I got some plans for these YDB's being that they are a skunk dragon cross Im going to take them further, the plan is I just scored a winter cleaning auction of Mr Nice's SHIT and I want to find these smaller less stretchy f3's and get them with some male SHIT pollen and than grow those out and cross one back to a f1 YDB and than work it out auto again… This YDB is just a work in progress and my beans will always be available as freebies in one bank or another until I have something that I honestly feel is worthy of someone paying for a strain… I don't understand how some banks have some many strains being released all the time etc… I wish I had the space, the team, the time etc to really step things up a notch, but for now I am enjoying my personal quest for meds to help myself and hopefully to help others… Aksteel, your doing a good job and though there are some bumps in the road atm this is all extremely valuable learning opportunities, you will learn TONS through out this grow and really hope your enjoying your journey as much as I am enjoying following along… :thumbs:
:Sharing One:
been medicating on some bowl packings of dry ice hash of several mixed buds (well packed. )

 

[briman]

The dolomite lime will take about a week to start working, after it is top dressed. 1 TBSP per gallon of medium. I usually ph my feed/waterings to 6.2-6.3, and found that is does better at that ph range. As the pro-mix dries out, the ph goes up to 6.7-6.9, swinging the plant through the sweetspot range on the ph scale. Keep doing what you are doing. If your wife can get to Fairtrade garden supply, they sell dolomite lime broken down into small bags, which will last you a few grows. I drop 1 TBSP on top and rake it in with a fork, then water. :thumbs:

 

[oldster]

Hey AK, here is a discussion on Promix that Briman pointed me to https://www.autoflower.org/f2...ess-15616.html

 

[CappY]

Off topic but I gotta say you guys are always on point with great advice. It's an amazing and rare thing (for me) to see so many people with so much experience take their time to help and guide so many new and inexperienced growers.
You guys are real saints:You are an Angel..:

 

[AKsteel]

Off topic but I gotta say you guys are always on point with great advice. It's an amazing and rare thing (for me) to see so many people with so much experience take their time to help and guide so many new and inexperienced growers.
You guys are real saints:You are an Angel..:

I totally agree. Thanks folks for your support. Talked to the wife this morning and she said the girls seem to have perked up overnight. So hopefully the ph adjustment worked.