Refeed?
- Thread starter cawolves
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Milky Weed
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Typically if your doing drain to waste with a soiless media like coco or peat, you get rid of the runoff. I like to toss it on the garden or the yard. With drain to waste your trying to flush the built-up salts out, so if you keep re adding it back in it may build up too much.
If your in soil you should not be getting runoff i believe but im not knowledgeable in soil.
If your in soil you should not be getting runoff i believe but im not knowledgeable in soil.
DoubleAtotheRON
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You SHOULD be getting runoff in soil (peat based)... only thing I've found is that after GH Trio sets for 24 hours, the PH spikes from 7 to like 8.8. I don't know why, but it does. So, I just dump 20 gallons of runoff out of 100 that I feed in. This is why if I have 5-10 gallons in my rez after feeding, I'll pump it down the drain, and flush the tank for the next days feeding, and start fresh again.
PadawanWarrior
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Are you aerating it? Because that will raise pH. Especially with your water that already has buffers in it.
DoubleAtotheRON
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No... just sitting in the tank for a few hours. IDK why it does this, but.. i've tried it several times, and all the same readings.
DoubleAtotheRON
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BTW....... who is censoring our posts?.. I see some of them are gone.
PadawanWarrior
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You're using well water right? The Ca and shit can raise the pH, but 8.8 is crazy. I'm sure your well water isn't that low is it?
PadawanWarrior
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What posts are missing?
DoubleAtotheRON
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I was replying to several threads, I guess I got confused.... easy for me late in the evening.