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evln00b
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**sorry but I was pretty proud of myself for workin that one out... I was racking my brains for ages workin out how to fix it without a ph meter lol.
she's a big lanky girl mate and good stuff on working out ya ph without a metre.
Nelson
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Adding calcium will make your pH go higher and so will magnesium but not as severly. You really should get a meter as they are not expensive and really do a good job of getting you clued in as to what your pH really is.
I think thats meant for you stoney... he's getting confused between the two grows with the same probs...
I figured it out I think... lets assume my base water ph is 7.0... I had figured that adding the bizz nutes was dropping my ph level to lockout...
Mines faired better after I figured out that dolomite lime was ph neutral of 7.0 but I couldn't find any, I then found out that dolomite was basically just calcium and magnesium (which the plants were lacking anyways)
So I stuck some calcium dust and epsom salts into my nute mix and gave that to the plants.... (funnily enough I done all of this in theory because I didn't have a PH meter)
It completely helped.... alongside that I upped my nutes to almost DOUBLE what they were lol...
Today I got a PH meter and I checked on my theory just to have physical evidence on the theory....
my water ph is 7.4 when I added the bizz it drops to 5.1 ... 5.1 causes the cal/mag AND PHOS deficiencies.
*the PHOS side explains why neither of us had probs until the start of flower*
adding the calcium and mag to the mix upped my ph to 6.4 (practically optimum right) ... tomorrow is watering day so I'll be doing the test on a proper batch and I'll PH the run off too just to let ya know
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evln00b
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I got a meter yesterday dude... the above i figured out last week lol.
reason being they were showing signs of N.P.K and mag lockout ... I checked a nutrient scale and k only gets locked out in low ph.
I had figured that the calcium and mag mixed into the solution would provide a buffer of 7 (it worked lol) - ok so I might have gotten lucky... I'll have to test and make a nice high ph solution and see if adding cal and mag (on the basis that the mixture is dolomite lime) buffers down too.
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Checked earlier stoney ... 6.5 going in... 5.9 run off ... the cal + mag was deffo required and a good fix for low PH
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stoneyhomer
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ok pics taken lastnight so day 60 update well she is looking good i think
DOH she grew into the light again lol
is this flowering or just pre flowering do i need to help her to flower by changing to 12/12 for a lil; while ?
DOH she grew into the light again lol
is this flowering or just pre flowering do i need to help her to flower by changing to 12/12 for a lil; while ?
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evln00b
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She's looking awesome bud... sorry for the thread hijack by the way I didn't mean to confuse folk between the grow's I was just trying to give ya a wee insight as to how I solved the mag / phos problem lol...
Mines seem to be doing great on 12/12 ... I'm actually thinking about jining you in supercropping the top of one because it's growing far too tall lol.
Mines seem to be doing great on 12/12 ... I'm actually thinking about jining you in supercropping the top of one because it's growing far too tall lol.
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littlebopeep
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I think this plant would be fantastic indoors if you scrog it so few plants so many M2
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stoneyhomer
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update pics taken lastnight so day 68 well she getting big (to big lol)
so i had to loose this lot i keep tiying her down but she turns herself up to the light and grows into it lol
and i am still loosing a small handfull of leaves a week to wotever this is cant work it out
so i had to loose this lot i keep tiying her down but she turns herself up to the light and grows into it lol
and i am still loosing a small handfull of leaves a week to wotever this is cant work it out
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