i am sure at some point this is going to turn into a diary of some sort but for right now i am dire need of help, so here are some factors u guys should know followed by my problem:
1. i am using the same nutes from my soil grow, the guano co./ super tea mix/5-10-2, vinegar for pH down, dynagro's KLN rooting hormone for the clones. nothing bigger than clones yet, all my moms are in soil and doing absolutely fine (one i thought was a male is actually fem and im in the process of air layering it right now, stems way too long to repot it)
2. i just finished my cloner: DIY, 54 site, RR plugs go straight into the drilled holes, 3 x air stone sticks/wands, double outlet airpump. painted the top, black duct tape for the container, it holds 5gl. its light tight and i have nothing building up in it, i check it constantly and the water is clear as day as when i first put it in. i pH'd and nute'd the water b4 i put it in the cloner.
3. for flowering, im running an ecoplus 396gph to dripper rings to 16 site hydroton filled 2gl grow bags from 27gl res
what im doing or my theory is that if i can get my cloner working as far as pH and whatever other problems may arise, then i should be ok with the bigger grow BUT i cant get my pH to . . .well. . .pH properly!! the cuts seem to be ok when i first put them in but after a while the lower leaves start to turn yellow and the rest of the cut top gets a little lighter green (a lot lighter than when i first put it in).
i decided to give it some more nutes as another experienced grower told me that the yellowing means that the plants arent getting enough nutes. i check pH and find that it goes right back up to 8.0. so i add vinegar to bring it down along with the super tea.
PROBLEM: i just checked my pH in the cloner out of curiosity and sure enough it was right back up to 8.0 (never higher or lower).
-how do you guys get your pH to stabilize? what am i doing wrong here?
-is there a relationship between the water and the RR plugs that im not aware of?
-do i need/use stronger/weaker nutes?
-is there something i could switch out/ add/ get rid of?
-if i need to how much time should i let them be under constant light b4 i switch to a regimen?
-is the vinegar good for soil grows and not hydro?
-what could cause the pH to shoot up like that?
the grower that i get info from is and has always used the GH series and never had to use any other probes or other means of testing and his cannabis is the greatest, even the bagseed weed that he cranks out is primo.
he says after a while the plant lets you know whats going on, and i know that to be true since its what/how i learned about my plants during my soil grows .he loves hydro cause its set it and forget it, BUT im finding that im doing more setting and checking than ever before!!
***my water pH out of the tap is 8.0
***i have a 35gl res that i keep to the side and the water is constantly being bubbled, so no chlorine issues, i dont adjust the pH in the main res until im ready to use it.
***right now im running PRINCESS DIESEL and i'll be adding SSH as soon as i can get this pH shit under control
***lights for my cloner stay on 24/7
1. i am using the same nutes from my soil grow, the guano co./ super tea mix/5-10-2, vinegar for pH down, dynagro's KLN rooting hormone for the clones. nothing bigger than clones yet, all my moms are in soil and doing absolutely fine (one i thought was a male is actually fem and im in the process of air layering it right now, stems way too long to repot it)
2. i just finished my cloner: DIY, 54 site, RR plugs go straight into the drilled holes, 3 x air stone sticks/wands, double outlet airpump. painted the top, black duct tape for the container, it holds 5gl. its light tight and i have nothing building up in it, i check it constantly and the water is clear as day as when i first put it in. i pH'd and nute'd the water b4 i put it in the cloner.
3. for flowering, im running an ecoplus 396gph to dripper rings to 16 site hydroton filled 2gl grow bags from 27gl res
what im doing or my theory is that if i can get my cloner working as far as pH and whatever other problems may arise, then i should be ok with the bigger grow BUT i cant get my pH to . . .well. . .pH properly!! the cuts seem to be ok when i first put them in but after a while the lower leaves start to turn yellow and the rest of the cut top gets a little lighter green (a lot lighter than when i first put it in).
i decided to give it some more nutes as another experienced grower told me that the yellowing means that the plants arent getting enough nutes. i check pH and find that it goes right back up to 8.0. so i add vinegar to bring it down along with the super tea.
PROBLEM: i just checked my pH in the cloner out of curiosity and sure enough it was right back up to 8.0 (never higher or lower).
-how do you guys get your pH to stabilize? what am i doing wrong here?
-is there a relationship between the water and the RR plugs that im not aware of?
-do i need/use stronger/weaker nutes?
-is there something i could switch out/ add/ get rid of?
-if i need to how much time should i let them be under constant light b4 i switch to a regimen?
-is the vinegar good for soil grows and not hydro?
-what could cause the pH to shoot up like that?
the grower that i get info from is and has always used the GH series and never had to use any other probes or other means of testing and his cannabis is the greatest, even the bagseed weed that he cranks out is primo.
he says after a while the plant lets you know whats going on, and i know that to be true since its what/how i learned about my plants during my soil grows .he loves hydro cause its set it and forget it, BUT im finding that im doing more setting and checking than ever before!!
***my water pH out of the tap is 8.0
***i have a 35gl res that i keep to the side and the water is constantly being bubbled, so no chlorine issues, i dont adjust the pH in the main res until im ready to use it.
***right now im running PRINCESS DIESEL and i'll be adding SSH as soon as i can get this pH shit under control
***lights for my cloner stay on 24/7