Update on my Wedding Cake, Northern Lights & Blue Cheese

let me add that cannabis roots like to be tested.. meaning allow the soil to dry before the next watering hence the 1 inch from the bottom method. Reason behind this is you want your roots to stay aggressive looking for water so they can eat all the delicious super soil.... water the plant in a circle 3X the diameter so the roots grow out to the water ring... when the plan canopy exceeds the diameter of the pot then you dump the water in... but watering at 3X the diameter will force the roots to grow outward instead of straight down.

Thank @Grow420Dad I will try that, watering around the perimeter.

So today I did a watering at 6.3 as you recommended. I tested the runoff of the sick plants and it was waaaay to high pH like 9 for the sick plants!!!!!! I couldn't believe it! So much for the cheap soil pH tester equipment and the shitty super soil that has 100% underperofmed the other super soil I got..... other plants are doing great.

So, I finished the watering with much lower pH water to balance it out. After that, the runnoff came out good at 6-7 pH. Hopefully this means those plants will start to recover now!?!?!

I really suggest you watch some vids on soil clackamas coot would be good starting point there’s tonnes of podcasts interviews Vids - watering is a huge part of super/living soils at no point should you ever let your soil dry out constant moisture levels are vital
a lot of peeps are achieving this using blumat set ups

Thanks @Leeski its a delicate balance because some people say that cannabis likes to have dry/wet cycles. But more and more I'm hearing that a healthy medium -- not too wet or not too dry -- is the goal INSTEAD. Right?

I am listening to clackamas now and will keep it from drying out too.

The hay is helping a lot to keep in the moisture!

Blumats are looking very interesting too.

Anyways I wonder why the pH seemed to drifts like that? It may be too much or too little watering for that particular super soil? (The other super soils have been fine, plants are doing well).

As Dbz said earlier in your thread a good organic soil will buffer it’s ph there could be multiple reason why you have ph swing/issues if your committed to organic growing I would read read read then read some more
Good luck