I’ve no experience in testing ph at all. Ill do some research and get something to test my water asap. I’d like to try to save if it possible. Not sure if lowes has a ph up/down as I’ve read about but I will look for it. To determine the ph of the soil properly I would check the run off?
You can use a fresh water aquarium pH kit. Or a spa pH kit to check the water.
Good info to have, thank you!
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For now the budget friendly route would be best I do appreciate any information though in regards to what works/what’s ideal. It may take a while but eventually I’d like to have the best tools and knowledge to be successful at growing. My fingers are crossed that I can get these girls to flower and produce bud, even if not the hugest gains. Hands on approach and seeing the whole process take place will help me a lot going forward I feel. Thanks for all the infos so far btw, it is greatly appreciated.
There's some good info in my grow journal in my signature..... some of it is not ideal for the home grower, but there's some decent info in there.
You CAN.... but I can do it without any hassles. Disclaimer: I am not responsible for your actions or legal allegations.Not all of us can take our old shit to our backyard and dispose of shit properly,
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I’m definitely gonna check that out! I’m not too familiar with this site yet and ended up on pictures of your grow (I think) which looked astounding! Fucking amazing haha. I’ll check back in later to find the journal and give an update on the ph. Thanks for all the answers, I’d say it gets annoying helping noobs haha. Peace, for now.
Most of us are happy to help. Compound man too. Nobody has all the answers, and we can never stop learning. Ok, now I sound old, I'm done kids, but stay off my lawn.
Thanks man. Do you think I could do a flush, figure out the ph and flush with ph adjusted water to bring it up/down? I do have a couple seedlings I just started (In solo cups) and a plant just starting veg in a smaller clay pot. They’re in the same soil though. I’ve ordered some 2gal fabric pots I plan to put them in, and I ordered a coco brick to use when I do. Hopefully they do better. For the other plants though I would like to ride it out and see what I can do.
When and IF you find out where you're at on PH (really guessing it's low tho), you can either flush with high PH water at 3 times the volume of the pot, and follow up immediately with a PH adjusted nute mix, or just flush with PH mixed nutes. I prefer the latter. No matter if your nute mix is on par, if the PH is out of whack, they will not take them up. I think this is your case.
I went out and bought some cheap test strips to use while I wait on the ph kit to come in the mail. It looks like my water ph is fine. I took a sample of soil from one of my pots in a water bottle, watered it and collected the run off. It would appear my soil is indeed low ph. In the picture below the right three strips are my water, the left two strips are the runoff. The ph kit with up/down isn’t supposed to arrive until Jan 25th unfortunately.
Yep!.. and if your runoff is that low, your soil is prob lower.
