fendre
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I'm using Advanced Nutrients three part and Big Bud.
When I clean my reservoir in my flowering room then add nutes to it I find I have to do a lot of pH down adjustments sometimes 2x/day for about 7-10 days. The pH goes from 5.5-6.1 in about 12 hours. The ppm is around 1700-1800. After about a week of constantly topping off the water I decide to just top it off with the same ratio of nutes I added before to get the ppm to where I had it (1800) plus about 50 ppm to take into account for the ppm im getting from adding tap water each day. So at 10+ days the pH is pretty steady and easy to keep at 5.6-5.7 and only adjust 1x/day.
Is this normal for the pH to mellow out after a week? Since my reservoir stays very clean even after 2-3 weeks is it ok to just keep topping off the nutes and raising the ppm back to where it needs to be each week for lets say 4 weeks? Or am I just better off dumping and remixing the nutes back in to the fresh water every 7 days?
When I clean my reservoir in my flowering room then add nutes to it I find I have to do a lot of pH down adjustments sometimes 2x/day for about 7-10 days. The pH goes from 5.5-6.1 in about 12 hours. The ppm is around 1700-1800. After about a week of constantly topping off the water I decide to just top it off with the same ratio of nutes I added before to get the ppm to where I had it (1800) plus about 50 ppm to take into account for the ppm im getting from adding tap water each day. So at 10+ days the pH is pretty steady and easy to keep at 5.6-5.7 and only adjust 1x/day.
Is this normal for the pH to mellow out after a week? Since my reservoir stays very clean even after 2-3 weeks is it ok to just keep topping off the nutes and raising the ppm back to where it needs to be each week for lets say 4 weeks? Or am I just better off dumping and remixing the nutes back in to the fresh water every 7 days?