Any hempy bucket pros out there?? Need some advice with ph!! Greatly appreciated!!

ok, so like in the title im having some ph problems. i have four 17 gallon rubbermaid containter each with 5 fem clones in them. i only vegged them for a week so they wont get to big for the containters they are in. i am using the general hydroponics flouraduo part a and b as of right now. i am using the standard ratio for any hempy bucket, 3 parts perlite and one part vermiculite. i know that the vermiculite is ph unstable so lets go ahead and skip everyone saying that. my problem is whenever i water my babies at 5.6 to 5.8 the run off water ends up coming out over 7!! ive tried everything, flushing and even lowering the ph to around 4 to try and even it out but nothing fucking works!! its driving me insane!

i have 4 mother plants going in 5 gallon buckets with a different type of vermiculite, its the brown dirt looking stuff from lowes, ya kno? with no problems at all.. but in my rubbermaid containers is the shiny spongy looking vermiculte i picked up from my hydro store.

does anyone have any tips to lower my ph bc i can see im already having problems 2 weeks into my flowering stage!

Thanks in advance to anyone out there that may be able to help me fix my problem!

that is pretty strange. my guess is the vermiculite, since i've never run into such a problem with GHE nutes. hydro nutes, right? if you leave your res over night just like that, what will happen to ph?

Lilsmoke...i love hempy bucket...i cant wait to doing again soon...its pretty simple...but i only use perlite , used with floraDuo a and b part as well...its impossible to overwater but you can flush every night and feed new nutrient every morning, thus you dont have to worry about pH...unless you see the defs in the plant...so do you see any problem with your plants beside pH ? I believe cannabis can tolerate at 8.0...what kind of water you re using ? thanks and happy growing, peace.

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