hotdigittydaffodil
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first off im using pro mix and RO water and in week 5 of flower.
so blue lab combo meter took a shit the other night as i was ph-ing straight ro water. it went from 5.5 straight to 7 and stayed locked there, put it in 4.0 solution.... nothing. so i said ok ill just guess a little bit and throw a little bit more baking soda in the water to bring it up to 5.8 and not even bother with nutes and ill grab a new meter in the morning. did that and got the new meter. im guessing its because my water stays cold? idk, but the meter i bought ended up fucking up(but i didn't know that at the time). luckily i ordered another bluelab and it was on the way. but i calibrated this meter that i had just bought, ph'd my water and did my feedings for the day. so now the next day my bluelab comes in and i calibrate it and test the 2 meters against each other...... they were almost a full 1.0 apart. but when i put them both in the solution the blue lab was on point but the other was off by .2 at most so thats why im thinking maybe its the cold water fucking with the one meter? i don't know, but either way that means they got a full day of feeding with straight ro water at like 4.7. The leaves began to taco, so ive been flushing with straight ro at 5.8 for the past 3 days but some of them are still taco-ing. i feel like i should just say screw it and start adding nutes again.
last question. today i finally noticed that ph drifts up after the water stops being agitated (im dumb, i know) i usually keep a vacuum pump going the whole time i mix my feeds and check ph, so when i stopped the one pump to turn on the other one connected to the hose i never noticed that my 5.8 would jump to 6.2-6.3 (ive only tested this with ro water not with nutes so i dont know if the nutes keep the ph consistent. im using advanced nutes btw) so ow im thinking that this whole time ive been feeding at too high of a ph sometimes, sometimes i would feed when i had the pump on and the meter read 6.0, so that means when the water settles it jumps to like 6.5
so where am i supposed to take my ph numbers from, after the water has sat without any movement, or do i take it when im agitating the water?
thanks for you help everyone. i hope this was posted in the right spot and if i fucked up somehow my bad i apologize
so blue lab combo meter took a shit the other night as i was ph-ing straight ro water. it went from 5.5 straight to 7 and stayed locked there, put it in 4.0 solution.... nothing. so i said ok ill just guess a little bit and throw a little bit more baking soda in the water to bring it up to 5.8 and not even bother with nutes and ill grab a new meter in the morning. did that and got the new meter. im guessing its because my water stays cold? idk, but the meter i bought ended up fucking up(but i didn't know that at the time). luckily i ordered another bluelab and it was on the way. but i calibrated this meter that i had just bought, ph'd my water and did my feedings for the day. so now the next day my bluelab comes in and i calibrate it and test the 2 meters against each other...... they were almost a full 1.0 apart. but when i put them both in the solution the blue lab was on point but the other was off by .2 at most so thats why im thinking maybe its the cold water fucking with the one meter? i don't know, but either way that means they got a full day of feeding with straight ro water at like 4.7. The leaves began to taco, so ive been flushing with straight ro at 5.8 for the past 3 days but some of them are still taco-ing. i feel like i should just say screw it and start adding nutes again.
last question. today i finally noticed that ph drifts up after the water stops being agitated (im dumb, i know) i usually keep a vacuum pump going the whole time i mix my feeds and check ph, so when i stopped the one pump to turn on the other one connected to the hose i never noticed that my 5.8 would jump to 6.2-6.3 (ive only tested this with ro water not with nutes so i dont know if the nutes keep the ph consistent. im using advanced nutes btw) so ow im thinking that this whole time ive been feeding at too high of a ph sometimes, sometimes i would feed when i had the pump on and the meter read 6.0, so that means when the water settles it jumps to like 6.5
so where am i supposed to take my ph numbers from, after the water has sat without any movement, or do i take it when im agitating the water?
thanks for you help everyone. i hope this was posted in the right spot and if i fucked up somehow my bad i apologize
