What is your PH of the water before going into the soil? It looks to me like this:
i dont have ph meter... can u tell me how to normalise the ph is boiled water good for flushing[/QUOTE
A PH meter is one of the most essential tools outside of soil/light. Water is the most essential tool in growing, and if you don't have good water, you will get death from your plants. Without a PH meter this problem will never be corrected. What happens is when you use tap water, the PH is around 7-8. Adding nutes lowers it. If you add about 3 tablespoons of bloom nutes, it will drop to around 5, and this will lockout the nutrients and nuke your plants like that. Boiling the water wil distill it, and will be good for it, but it wont fix the PH problem, the only way to do that is to use a meter. Stop all nutes, just use boiled water and molasses, until you get a meter.
i dont have ph meter... can u tell me how to normalise the ph is boiled water good for flushing[/QUOTE
A PH meter is one of the most essential tools outside of soil/light. Water is the most essential tool in growing, and if you don't have good water, you will get death from your plants. Without a PH meter this problem will never be corrected. What happens is when you use tap water, the PH is around 7-8. Adding nutes lowers it. If you add about 3 tablespoons of bloom nutes, it will drop to around 5, and this will lockout the nutrients and nuke your plants like that. Boiling the water wil distill it, and will be good for it, but it wont fix the PH problem, the only way to do that is to use a meter. Stop all nutes, just use boiled water and molasses, until you get a meter.
i havent add any extra nutes ... i use worm cuttings and worm fertilzer on which is written no overdose but i seldom use it ... i guess it the shitty soil i used to mix the cuttings.... tomorrow i ll get ph testing kit.. i found one for 7 % it measures moisture and light too .. hope it works ...
I hope you dont mean the soil PH tester from Lowes/Home Depot/Menards. That is only for soil and doesn't work for water. I had to get my PH meter from ebay for 30 bucks. That's about the cheapest you can get.
Cant wait for e-bayi havent add any extra nutes ... i use worm cuttings and worm fertilzer on which is written no overdose but i seldom use it ... i guess it the shitty soil i used to mix the cuttings.... tomorrow i ll get ph testing kit.. i found one for 7 % it measures moisture and light too .. hope it works ...
I hope you dont mean the soil PH tester from Lowes/Home Depot/Menards. That is only for soil and doesn't work for water. I had to get my PH meter from ebay for 30 bucks. That's about the cheapest you can get.
I use this one, works pretty good for me, might be able to get a cheaper one, just look aroundoh and can u post me a link to what exactly ph meter u bought? if u can link it here send me an e-mail [email protected]
so i need ph-meter for water not for soil its like the one that mesures ph in aquarium ? Or i need a ph meter that mesures both soil and water?
temps bout 25-27C i water once every 6 days// all of my plants have very big and massive roots(is this a problem? i use very deep pots and pots are transperant roots are exposed to light)Whatare your temps and how often do you water looks like it could be a few things might wanna consider techna floras recipe for succes an easy nutrient package virtually no hassel makes them green as can be only thirty bucks
As for ph doesn't seeem like a lock out I would be more worried about tempature and nutrients defencies maybe even root mass at this point make sure all the standards are good