Ph keeps droping daily!

Stayhighsall

Stayhighsall

Member
Hi fellow farmers. My ph keeps dropping daily i have to adjust it every day usually bring it down a point. Any ideas what is causing this and how bad is it. Thx
 
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uhavealighter?

Active Member
by a point do you mean 0.1 or 1? if its 0.1 then I wouldn't worry about it. It might be heat causing water to evaporate from the solution and from you plants taking up water thereby lowering the ph. just add water every few days...not ph up.
 
wheels619

wheels619

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what are u using for ur plants in the beginning? rockwool, rapid rooters? all natural maybe. do ur nutes say on the bottle may cause temporary rise in ph? ive used nutes from cutting edge before where i had that problem. one addative would temp raise the ph and i would correct it even tho the bottle told me not to like a retard. but thats becuz i didnt read up on them vary well when i first started growing. it would rise for a couple of days then lower itself back down naturally as the plants drank the nutes.
 
wheels619

wheels619

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wait a minute. did u make the newb mistake of not flushing ur coco before putting it in ur grow? u know ur supposed to flush all that shit right? rockwool hydroton coco. all of the hydro stuff should be flushed before use. are u recycling the water? if so "WELL THERE IS UR PORBLEM" lol. we all have done it once or twice. its growing u learn from ur mistakes.

if u have flushed them then im oblivious to why its doing it if the nutes are on spot.
 
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uhavealighter?

Active Member
What do you have it at and what does it fall too? How are you testing it? Sorry but this seems unreal to me. Coco is 5 at worst.
 
Stayhighsall

Stayhighsall

Member
I gotta ask my so called expert( the dude that helps me grow) if we flushed the coco but I don't fxxxin remember him doing that :(
 
wheels619

wheels619

Well-Known Member
take ur plants out into the yard and flush it with phd water or reg tap water would even work. if u dont flush ur coco it will give u crazy jumps in ph everytime u put water thru it. u may want to push some nutes thru it for a while afterwards tho so it will flush all the water back out of the coco. and change ur res. all the coco junk is in it now. how big are ur plants and are u nuting th4m yet? gonna hop in the shower. gonna check back in bout an hour or so.
 
Stayhighsall

Stayhighsall

Member
Their huge brother. I don't think it's a goo idea to move them plus I got three layers of nets going through them I'm harvesting in 2 weeks max
 
wheels619

wheels619

Well-Known Member
oh shit. ur good then just keep rockin them the way ur goin. if they are big they will soak up a lot of the nutes that are in ur water too. if they are giant they can def make it fluctuate with how much they eat. lol. but remember to always flush ur coco and stuff good before. and remember to flush ur plants a bit before u harvest like a week at least. helps remove any nutes that may be left over that could cause ur bud to not burn right, taste horrible when smoked and be harsh.
 
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