New growth looks funky?
- Thread starter Way2-High
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macsnax
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Chip Green
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How was the soil PH measured?
Way2-High
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In a slurry. Testing runoff.
Way2-High
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I constantly check them when I’m home. move everything around. I’m like a crackhead looking for some drugs. But it’s researching and learning that gets me high. Could me constantly bugging it cause an issue?
xtsho
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It's so hard to make a call from a couple of pictures. Sometimes I wish I could just reach out and grab plants through my monitor, fix them, and send them back.
They are stressed but from what I can't say.
Chip Green
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The reason I asked, I had a few cycles, many moons ago that looked very similar... I "thought" my soil PH was 6.5(ish) based on runoff, and slurry(ish) tests. I was chasing my tail with lockouts, believing the PH was in the good range....
THEN, I invested in a BlueLab PH probe for my soil....Its the Leap probe, universal for media and solutions...Pricey tool indeed.
The soil I thought was 6.5 was actually 5.5, or less......runoff can be very misleading.
I go on and on, and ON about this thing, but seriously, it took me to new levels, because of how far off I was running without it....
Also I was making sure you weren't using one of those F'n two pronged "PH/Moisture" pieces O' shite"...…
(I was fairly confident you weren't)
xtsho
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".runoff can be very misleading."
Exactly. The only way to get close to an accurate reading of soil pH is with a slurry test or an expensive probe that works like the one you have.. Runoff is a terrible way to determine the pH of soil and will lead people down the wrong path and chasing your tail as you say. Runoff pH is completely worthless when dealing with soil.
The next pH tester I purchase will be the one you have.
macsnax
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You have the pot in a tote it looks like? I see how you can have an airflow problem. I bet you could get a little 6" fan at a dollar store on the cheap. Probably wouldn't need to point it at the pot, just down the side of the tote.... I like the building blocks too, use what you've got laying around.
Way2-High
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I was just messing around with that tote as a little experiment. It’s not like that all the time, it was only in there for like 20 minutes while I checked some stuff. This is what it looks like.
This fan has always been in the closet blowing down at that gap in the back.
This fan has always been in the closet blowing down at that gap in the back.
macsnax
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As long as you have fresh air coming in and little circulation, you should be good. Maybe add another fan. I just set up a 2 x 4 for personal and have three oscillating fans in there, a 440 cfm extraction fan, and a 120 cfm intake. Might be a little overkill but it can all be adjusted with controllers.
