Hello AFN,
I have been looking for ways to stabilize PH in my res, so when i fill up my dwc buckets (or rdwc) to have a Stable Ph of 5.8 (or whatever).
Many growers will tell you to adjust ph after you add nutes to 5.3 (just a guess) and let it swing up to 6 (or 6.2) and then re adjust....
Other growers have said to use aquarium buffer to treat the water...
Today im going to share a new method i learned and i would like to hear some opinions from experienced members of the forum.
So, LETS SAY we are using 4 buckets of 20 litres capacity x 15 litres fill capacity in each bucket as our DWC system. This means we need 60 litres to start with 4 plants.
The idea is to use a big bucket to pre-treat your water (with nutes) that your are going to start using in a few days which will have a STABILIZED PH of 5.8 (or whatever your prefences)
So we start with 60 litres of water in the big bucket, which in my occasion, im using 1/3 tap water (EC 0.9 PH 8.5) and 2/3 RO water from my system. In this way i buffer my RO water from EC 0 to EC 0.3.....But before i do this i let my tap water dechlorinate and after i make the mix. Like this i fill up the big bucket with 60 litres of water.
So...Now that we have our water available, we add the nutes, in this case we want a light feed because we dealing with seedlings. So we add a light feed of our nutes to the bucket to reach the desiarable EC level, ok?
Here we start the treatment of the water, to have it ready in a few days to go into our dwc buckets with a STABLE PH....
Now its time to add our ph down solution (Nitric for VEG, Phos for Flower) and lower our PH to 5.8 (or whatever). And we live it with a pump working on a timer periodicaly during the day and night to keep our solution and water mixed well and aerated.
The next day (after 24h period) we check the ph and we use our ph down agent to bring the ph back to our desirable level, for me its PH=5.8
We repeat the processfor the next day, and the next day...Usually it takes upto 4 days...Then one day you will see that the PH is stablized!!!
We now have stablized ph water to start our seedlings....
From here you can continue to have big buckets in your grow room with STABLIZED ph for any occasion....
For example:
-1 big bucket, aerated, with PLAIN stabilized water (to use when you dont want to add nutrients in your dwc buckets)
-1 big bucket, aerated, with PH stabilized NUTE water (at the desirable EC level) to use when plants are eating and EC level is going down...
-1 big bucket, aerated, with Plain Water with PH 8-8,5 (house water) to fix any ph drifts downwards from your desisable ph in dwc bucket with he plant
So guys...Since i havent read anywhere else this method, Whats your opinion? Will this work?
I have been looking for ways to stabilize PH in my res, so when i fill up my dwc buckets (or rdwc) to have a Stable Ph of 5.8 (or whatever).
Many growers will tell you to adjust ph after you add nutes to 5.3 (just a guess) and let it swing up to 6 (or 6.2) and then re adjust....
Other growers have said to use aquarium buffer to treat the water...
Today im going to share a new method i learned and i would like to hear some opinions from experienced members of the forum.
So, LETS SAY we are using 4 buckets of 20 litres capacity x 15 litres fill capacity in each bucket as our DWC system. This means we need 60 litres to start with 4 plants.
The idea is to use a big bucket to pre-treat your water (with nutes) that your are going to start using in a few days which will have a STABILIZED PH of 5.8 (or whatever your prefences)
So we start with 60 litres of water in the big bucket, which in my occasion, im using 1/3 tap water (EC 0.9 PH 8.5) and 2/3 RO water from my system. In this way i buffer my RO water from EC 0 to EC 0.3.....But before i do this i let my tap water dechlorinate and after i make the mix. Like this i fill up the big bucket with 60 litres of water.
So...Now that we have our water available, we add the nutes, in this case we want a light feed because we dealing with seedlings. So we add a light feed of our nutes to the bucket to reach the desiarable EC level, ok?
Here we start the treatment of the water, to have it ready in a few days to go into our dwc buckets with a STABLE PH....
Now its time to add our ph down solution (Nitric for VEG, Phos for Flower) and lower our PH to 5.8 (or whatever). And we live it with a pump working on a timer periodicaly during the day and night to keep our solution and water mixed well and aerated.
The next day (after 24h period) we check the ph and we use our ph down agent to bring the ph back to our desirable level, for me its PH=5.8
We repeat the processfor the next day, and the next day...Usually it takes upto 4 days...Then one day you will see that the PH is stablized!!!
We now have stablized ph water to start our seedlings....
From here you can continue to have big buckets in your grow room with STABLIZED ph for any occasion....
For example:
-1 big bucket, aerated, with PLAIN stabilized water (to use when you dont want to add nutrients in your dwc buckets)
-1 big bucket, aerated, with PH stabilized NUTE water (at the desirable EC level) to use when plants are eating and EC level is going down...
-1 big bucket, aerated, with Plain Water with PH 8-8,5 (house water) to fix any ph drifts downwards from your desisable ph in dwc bucket with he plant
So guys...Since i havent read anywhere else this method, Whats your opinion? Will this work?
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