Why is checking runoff a poor indication of soil ph?
Sure is. In soil you need to keep your soil ph at around 6.5 - 6.7. The nutes will drop it down into the mid fives. If you use Fox Farm and mix into a gallon or two of tap water in the mid 7's I bet it will drop into the 5's. That is where I think my problem started. Instead of buying a digital ph meter I just added more nutes. So I learned the hard way. Veg went pretty good so I thought I had it figured out. That is the best thing I can come up with so far as to what happened. Being my first grow and all...
I clipped a small bud tonight. A little guy down off a branch that was poking up for light near the bottom. Got it in a paper bag in my pocket right now. Going to hang it in front of the exhaust fan for the night.
Do I Need to get those tiny leaves off before drying? I tried to remove as many little leaves as possible. Some are just cut close to the bud. I was afraid I was going to cut the good stuff off.