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AutoBuddy
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Any tips on how to proceed ? =)
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AndyBotwin
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Well, without good pH testing it's hard to say for sure. It sounds like your pH is really low, since the runoff was a full point off from the water you put in. You could add some dolomite lime to the top of your soil and that will bring it up over the next week. Until then, you could do some foliar feeding to get nutrients to the plant directly since they're locked out in the soil.
I have been around for awhile and ph is always the cause of problems...That's where it starts my friend...If your ph is to high, 6.7 or higher, add 2 tbs of Acidifier to the soil. That will bring it down. If it's to low, 6.0 or less, then add 2 tbs of lime to the soil...That will bring it up...
Good luck,
Rip
One more note..Don't use anything in the soil that has Aluminum in it...I've read where members have use it to lower their ph, but if used in excess, it will kill the plants...
Here's a link to the Acidifier...http://www.espoma.com/p_consumer/pdf...oil_acidif.pdf
Good luck,
Rip
One more note..Don't use anything in the soil that has Aluminum in it...I've read where members have use it to lower their ph, but if used in excess, it will kill the plants...
Here's a link to the Acidifier...http://www.espoma.com/p_consumer/pdf...oil_acidif.pdf
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AutoBuddy
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Thanks a lot for the tips guys !
I am foliar feeding them now and hoping it will give result on the ladies. =)
And for my next growth i now know that i have got to invest in some new ph testers and ph downs/ups for my soil and water.
For now im hoping that some "home tricks" will make my ph stable enough to finish them, approx 2-3 weeks from now, so im thinking about start flushing them, and my tap water is about 7 in ph so im hoping it will bring them up a bit.
I am foliar feeding them now and hoping it will give result on the ladies. =)
And for my next growth i now know that i have got to invest in some new ph testers and ph downs/ups for my soil and water.
For now im hoping that some "home tricks" will make my ph stable enough to finish them, approx 2-3 weeks from now, so im thinking about start flushing them, and my tap water is about 7 in ph so im hoping it will bring them up a bit.
I have just flushed the ladies with fresh water with Ph around 6.2, i dont have the best ph testing equipment so its kind of hard to be precis, but the first one i checked the first water coming out and that was ~5 and the last water that came out was ~6.5 the second one was ~5 in the first water coming out and the last was ~6.
All this seems like a mystery to me because the water i have been using is leaning more towards 7 i ph, and when i flushed it with the ~6.2 the water coming pout was more negative then the water i put in.
And the soil im using, i dont think that it was anything else mixed in just soil and sand, but lesson learned no more sand to the ladies. =)
One more thing i think i should add, my fertilizer do have something called ph correction, i dont know if thats good or bad in my case, but it did sound good when i bought it.
Once the water has run though the pot and you have collected it, it now has trace concentrations of nutes that was in the soil already... Those tester strips are of no use to you once you've add nutes to the water. Those strips go by color codes and the nutes mess that up...
