Mcoocoo
Well-Known Member
it may seem silly to this guy, but it does help seeing what is coming out, the correct thing would be to dig down about an inch or 2 and mix 1 ounce of soil to 1 ounce of water and stick the pH pen in and measure it., that will tell you the correct pH of your root zone and you should also measure the PPM of that soil slurry as well, it tell you EXACTLY what is going on in your root zone. Everyone on here tries to act like a pro with their advice, but everyone has their own way of doing things, the only way you truly learn is trial and errorok since nobody guessed right
you have a mag deficiency 1 tsp per gal of epsom salt gets you there. Those leaves that are jacked wont come back so dont try to think about it.
No you dont need to use cal/mag every watering and probably shouldnt, if you use r/o dont remember if you do then maybe you should.. Cal/mag is a supplement.
For somebody to say that you use cal/mag one time at week four in soil is crazy and for you to say that is what your going to do next time is crazy, dont blindly do things that people put out on the internet. Do your research.
And checking ph run off is silly and not needed. At all. Microbes regulate the ph at the root surface I would get some microbe action going if you want to up your game. Your microbe game that is. Measuring ppm run off is just as silly and not needed if you feed it correctly but at least that will tell you where your at if you think that you have a hot pot.