Help please help!!!! Im new to this

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Loonytunez92

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So im using ffof as my soil mixed with coco coir. Ive added bat guano. A little kelp meal and a little bit of ewc. Im used. Azo an mykos when ive transplanted. Ive just recently started to ph my soil bc i was noticing some nutrient burn or so it looked on the tips the soil was phd at 5.9/6.0. Ive added a little dolmite lime to the soil to help bring my ph back up a little i water with 6.5 ph water usually no nutes as im in veggative stage right now. Im going to try and take some pictures could you guys possibly give me some advice. Ill be transplanting into 5 gallon pots next week right now they are in 2 gallons have been for about almost 2 weeks i fees by hand and wait until. My plants are dry but not under watered20200428_012654.jpg20200428_012720.jpg20200428_012638.jpg20200428_012523.jpg20200428_012440.jpg20200428_011055.jpg20200428_010751.jpg20200428_010817.jpg20200428_010626.jpg
 
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Loonytunez92

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TO bring the ph up my soil was PHing at 5.8 b4 i did. Once i did this mix with the coco coir. Ffof my plants have seem to enjoy it. It was almost as if the ffof was to rich at one point the leaves that are looking kind lf nute burnt are older leaves
 
MickFoster

MickFoster

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Coco and soil have different pH requirements for proper nutrient uptake......peat moss would be more appropriate.
It might be ok if there isn't too much coco in the mix.
 
Gentlemencorpse

Gentlemencorpse

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MickFoster said:
Coco and soil have different pH requirements for proper nutrient uptake......peat moss would be more appropriate.
It might be ok if there isn't too much coco in the mix.
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I use coco for drainage in my soil mixes all the time with no issue. In small amounts it acts just like peat moss and has no real effect on the soil pH. Growing in pure peat moss would also have have different pH requirements then soil.

That being said, I have no idea why coco would bring up the pH of the soil. As for the nute burn looking issue, FFOF can be kind of hot, especially with everything OP added. That's all I can think of. All the additives probably dropped the pH a bit but even 6 isn't bad in soil as far as I'm aware. But I just mix my FFOF with a little coco and let it run until it needs nutrients later in life so I'm not really sure.
 
bamsam

bamsam

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you are fine. don't worry as @conor c said your soil mix is just a bit hot for this young plants. looking at the pictures your plants are doing great. about the tip burns, I know some growers who intentionally burn their tips just so they know that they are giving their plants the maximum amount of feed that they can handle.
 
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