ProPheT 216
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So, I'm 21ish days into flower and started noticing a Lil leaf drop. Got on RIU, came across the all the helpful advice of everyone regarding food and pH. However, neither of those seem to be my issue. K here we go
7 gal pots, peat based soil, sunshine brand with a 6.8 pH out the bag. Using Nectar for the Gods nut. Line. Was feeding at roughly 6.3 pH, gonna bump that up to about 6.7 now. Anyways I started noticing falling leaves many of which looked healthy about 3 weeks into flower. So I started checking things. Found out my pH on or around the surface of pot was high 6s, but lower 2-3 inches from drainage holes my pH is between 5.0-5.5. I flushed that night with 4 gals of water at 7.3 ph. PH looks to have went up in the lower zone some since.
That all being said, I don't think this was a pH issue, not directly anyways.
I'm not throwing pH out the window... Just realizing that pH in soil is hard to mess up if you feed and water properly. My surface pH being 6.7. And the pH at the bottom of the pot being lower shows a build up of salts. My leaf drop is not necessarily due directly to pH, more due to over feeding and not enough run off, in turn causing salts to build, messing up pH levels, and slowing hopefully not stopping uptake. Trying to fix ph and not knowing the the source of the issue id surly be in this boat again soon. Make sense?
So what r the better ways of monitoring salt buildup and control/managing it?
7 gal pots, peat based soil, sunshine brand with a 6.8 pH out the bag. Using Nectar for the Gods nut. Line. Was feeding at roughly 6.3 pH, gonna bump that up to about 6.7 now. Anyways I started noticing falling leaves many of which looked healthy about 3 weeks into flower. So I started checking things. Found out my pH on or around the surface of pot was high 6s, but lower 2-3 inches from drainage holes my pH is between 5.0-5.5. I flushed that night with 4 gals of water at 7.3 ph. PH looks to have went up in the lower zone some since.
That all being said, I don't think this was a pH issue, not directly anyways.
I'm not throwing pH out the window... Just realizing that pH in soil is hard to mess up if you feed and water properly. My surface pH being 6.7. And the pH at the bottom of the pot being lower shows a build up of salts. My leaf drop is not necessarily due directly to pH, more due to over feeding and not enough run off, in turn causing salts to build, messing up pH levels, and slowing hopefully not stopping uptake. Trying to fix ph and not knowing the the source of the issue id surly be in this boat again soon. Make sense?
So what r the better ways of monitoring salt buildup and control/managing it?
