crazy-mental
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when they are drooping is the temp getting colder or hotter at this time, also do you have a fan.
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kingding2385
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sup bro...plants look real good, i'd also say wait a few more weeks til you begin flowering. but they look good i'll keep watching
ru8fru
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ok now they are starting to get extremely droopy... even hours before the light shuts off... starting to get concerned... I think it might be a PH issue... I raised the light even more and the fans are blowing now... I dont think its over watering because I water once a week... and should have yesterday but the soil is still pretty moist. should I just get a PH tester kit?
storzbickel
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yeah dude, a meter would be ever better, but anything is better than nothing.
the wrong ph can lock out some nutes, but we dont want to say thats the issue because we have no data to justify that assumption
get some sort of test kit so at least we have an idea.
they have 3 in one meters like your moisture one that are not too expensive, like 18usd or so. check out your shop/garden center/hardware store.
the wrong ph can lock out some nutes, but we dont want to say thats the issue because we have no data to justify that assumption
get some sort of test kit so at least we have an idea.
they have 3 in one meters like your moisture one that are not too expensive, like 18usd or so. check out your shop/garden center/hardware store.
ru8fru
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well I just tested the PH at it came out really blue and on the color meter than indicates its around 8.0... eek... What does that mean? I have some PH down as well so Ill lower it... 6.5 is what Im shooting for correct? someone with experience let me know. Would that make sense for what is cause my plants to be really droopy and the leaves curling? let me know big homies!!!
atlantadirect
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I used my pH meter in some regular tap water, just messing with it, and it read 8.5 pH. I thought I needed to calibrate my meter, but when I put it in the 7.0 pH reference solution it read 7.1. Tap water is weakly alkaline in general I discovered. It does sound like you are using a lot of pH Down though, although you might just have smaller drops than me. It takes me 3 drops of pH down to drop a quart of my tap water to 5.5-5.8 (but I'm doing hydro, not soil; I think you want a slightly higher pH than that for soil). So I guess it would take 12-15 drops per gallon for me.
GNOME GROWN
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how the babys doing?!?...i transplanted mines today out of those cups...they were wicked root bound
...but i got 2 hps lights now too..i'll post some pics tm so u can check it out!
...but i got 2 hps lights now too..i'll post some pics tm so u can check it out!
ru8fru
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their doing ok... just sooo droopy, its making me so depressed... still growing though... I can see the roots coming out of the drainage spots on my pots am I going to need to transplant again or will I be all good? My brother jacked his camera back so itll be a little bit for pics 
storzbickel
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to be honest man i have never really counted my drops. and i use liquid silicon so that raises the shit out the my pH.....
i cant really say if thats the issue or not, id like to see pics when you get the camera back.
just one thing to keep in mind that i ran into on my last grow is that excessive amounts of pH result in salt deposits.
my plants got total nute lock and died, twice this happened. my only means of preventing it was changing the res or flushing very frequently.
my tap is about 196 ppm and i had that happen. I also tried again using 001 ppm water. same thing.
i dont knwo off hand my tap ph , but ill get back to you and check it against yours. see if we cant figure this out...
i cant really say if thats the issue or not, id like to see pics when you get the camera back.
just one thing to keep in mind that i ran into on my last grow is that excessive amounts of pH result in salt deposits.
my plants got total nute lock and died, twice this happened. my only means of preventing it was changing the res or flushing very frequently.
my tap is about 196 ppm and i had that happen. I also tried again using 001 ppm water. same thing.
i dont knwo off hand my tap ph , but ill get back to you and check it against yours. see if we cant figure this out...
storzbickel
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Parts Per Million- its the amount of dissolved solids in the water, like minerals and such.
you can use a simple TDS meter, not something you need to know, but its nice to have. You can measure nutrient solutions, just any dissolved solids in the water really.
so my ph is 7.45. and i have a fairly high PPM.....so if yours is that high.... i think maybe some better water might help, just being that you have to add as much ph down, you know? Does your water seem like hard water, leaving a residue or feeling kind of slippery? Sometimes water can be hard and not be that obvious.
right now tho, idf say wait it out, no sense in buying a filter or packaged water unless you have to. Lets see the pics and get a better idea.