First Time Grow. Ph??????

Hey so i know what ph is and how it affects plants and what the ideal ph is and how nutes lower it all water is different and shit.

But i was wondering is it really completely 100% necessary to have a ph meter for me to succesfully complete an outdoor grow till harvest ??? I'm using Happy Frog soil with Earth Juice Grow and Bloom. I know those will lower the PH alot so i gotta let it sit out for a while before using it right ??

if your outdoor grow is strictly soil based then you really dont need one! but it never hurts to have one

More important indoors I agree, but outdoors you can use some dolomite lime in your mix to keep it stable, add some greensand too for micro nutrients.

Yeah my soil says it has dolomite lime as a PH stabalizer in it already. Should i add a little more you think ??

Pot is a weed. Plant it and it will grow. There are ranges that work best and can be dialed in. If you can grow a tomatoe plant you can grow a pot plant.

stumps said:

Pot is a weed. Plant it and it will grow. There are ranges that work best and can be dialed in. If you can grow a tomatoe plant you can grow a pot plant.

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Actually pot is not a weed thats a total myth.

Mongala420 said:

Yeah my soil says it has dolomite lime as a PH stabalizer in it already. Should i add a little more you think ??

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No, you should be ok, you dont wanna over do it.

Purplekrunchie said:

Actually pot is not a weed thats a total myth.

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The problem is in actually defining what a weed is.

If your/my grow is the cannabis plant, the cannabis plant is not a weed, its a crop.

Similarly, if you and I are growing wheat, and a rose bush pops up in the middle of our wheat field, the rose bush is a weed.

Vi

As a first time outdoor grower, let me tell you what I have found/discovered in only a few days. I grew my plants from seed and everything went just fine. Decided way back that I wasn't going to bother with PH since I figured I would be okay with just assuming everything was good. I decided a few days ago to get the PH droplet kit that comes with the little testing vial. Best thing I've done yet. I am watering with creek water right beside my plants. It's fast moving, well aerated, and I assumed healthy. Put my plants in the ground and watered with the creek water with 1/4 strength ferts, THEN went and bought the PH kit and a few other things. Took a sample of the creek water home and it had a PH that was 8+! Went back out today and the plants looked okay but the new growths on the tops were "off looking" and seemed kinda wrinkly and the tips were burned. The leaves were all curved upwards also. Took a few gallons of the creek water and PH'd it to 6.5 or close to and flushed the plants out. I'll check on them in a few days but I bet they look better. I am using the Fox farm trio along with Pro-mix BX, Marine Cuisine (I know it's time release), coir, and perlite. Don't really know where I"m going with this, other that just to say that I am thankful I decided against my initial thoughts and bought the cheap little PH droplet kit. Having said that, I am only PH'ing with feeding water (plain water and water with ferts added) and I am not PH'ing runoff since I'm growing in beds in the ground. I don't know the soil PH other than most of the soil is stuff I added witch should be fine. IMO, in the very least, PH your feeding water.

ok ok I stand corrected. lol I'll try to rephrase. grows wild in many places without much help. The delta grows around here are fed with a very nasty river ph high 8 something and ppm test was off the chart. These guys plant and harvest. Some might go and weed out males but for the most part no contact during the grow. these plants get huge. and the ones without seeds smoke great.