Rainy day havin 2 o'clock coffee some dabs. :bong: :coffee:🍩
Was gonna try to start with cleaning the upstairs again today but im too tired from being up all night
Girls look ok gonna tuck some leaves

Pinkys Closet
Week 5
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Yeah, I think I finally figured out what was going on.

The plants in my old dirt are growing awesome.

Plants in the new dirt I just made up, are doing terrible.

I PH tested the runoff from the new dirt...and holy jeeze was it high. Like dark dark green. So like PH 8 or worse.

So I mixed up some pretty acidic water, picked 2 of the worst looking plants, and over about an hour slowly soaked them.

Then checked the runoff. Light green, almost yellow. So right around 6.0-6.5. Right where I want it.

I have no idea why the dirt would be so basic. I've never used that brand of soil before that I mixed with the coco, so...who knows. What I do know is that I think it was so basic it was making the plants grow terrible.

I picked two as an experiment. If in 24 hours they are perking up and looking better, I'll do it to the rest of them.
Good luck, I hope you get it sorted. This sort of issue is why I gave up on soil and went back to coco. There is not a lot of variability in well rinsed and buffered coco. And it is a lot easier to fix if I screw something up. :biggrin: :pighug:
 
Good luck, I hope you get it sorted. This sort of issue is why I gave up on soil and went back to coco. There is not a lot of variability in well rinsed and buffered coco. And it is a lot easier to fix if I screw something up. :biggrin: :pighug:
:shrug::pighug::crying:

 
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