Help my plaants

[cellardwellar420]

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I use tap water. Ok I will buy an EC-meter and will give you information about the measurement

I got the blulab truncheon, its very simple and relible

 

[cellardwellar420]

Hello Growmiees ,

I use BioBizz as a fertilizer. The temperatures fluctuate between 19°C and 25°C.
The humidity fluctuates between 50% and 70%.
The pH value thing is a bit strange for me. First I had a pH value of 7, then I used the pH-Down from BioBizz and tried to get the value down to 6-6.3. Now the pH value at the bottom of the pot is 4.5 pH and 6.8 pH at the top. How can I distribute the pH value evenly?
Is the EC value important? I don't have a measuring device for this yet.

What does my plant have I don't understand it anymore? I have now ordered CalMag from BioBizz and potassium from Canna fertilizer.
What do you think?

XOXO from Germany

you can try to flush, helped me when i was having som ph/nute problems, just make sure the runoff is gettting clearer/cleaner,. This is not if its overwatered

 

[linde]

oh yea? why would you not add ph down, if i may ask?

Fertilizer naturally lowers pH. He has lockouts from over ferting. Unused fert builds in soil lowering pH. Low ph creates lockouts particularly with mag. So why would u add ph down if ph is too low? He needs to add ph up or use neutral tap water to raise the soil pH into the optimal range so the plant can break down nutrients and thrive again.

 

[cellardwellar420]

Fertilizer naturally lowers pH. He has lockouts from over ferting. Unused fert builds in soil lowering pH. Low ph creates lockouts particularly with mag. So why would u add ph down if ph is too low? He needs to add ph up or use neutral tap water to raise the soil pH into the optimal range so the plant can break down nutrients and thrive again.

If my soil is 7,5ph and i water with 5.5 it will lowet it then? Is the plant able to absorb?

 

[linde]

If my soil is 7,5ph and i water with 5.5 it will lowet it then? Is the plant able to absorb?

Yes I always go a whole point the other way from the target range to try and correct. Say if soil is 5.0 and I want it to be 6.0. I'll ph my water to 7.0. that is how I would combat the problem but there are numerous ways to do it. Lime raises ph. Sulfur lowers pH. But those may not work immediately. Ph water acts immediately

 

[cellardwellar420]

Yes I always go a whole point the other way from the target range to try and correct. Say if soil is 5.0 and I want it to be 6.0. I'll ph my water to 7.0. that is how I would combat the problem but there are numerous ways to do it. Lime raises ph. Sulfur lowers pH. But those may not work immediately. Ph water acts immediately

i have pure sulfur powder
I will google it

Thank you

 

[Growerin]

oh yea? why would you not add ph down, if i may ask?

Because the pH-Value is 7. I thought it should be 6,2 or not?

 

[Growerin]

You just mix a bit with it before you plant. I do it in a wheelbarrow. A tbsp or 2 per gallon is what i do but I use promix diluted with perlite to make it loose.

Please send me a link which lime I could use

 

[Creeperpark]

oh yea? why would you not add ph down, if i may ask?

One should only add acid if the water's starting pH is above 7. Most synthetic fertilizers will be acidic and drop the pH. When you mix the acid with the fertilizer sometimes it overreacts dropping the pH too low from the excess hydrogen. The acid will always leave a by-product behind in the water and that can accumulate in the soil and block receptor sites late in flowering.

Since I don't use tap water there's no need to ever add acid to my liquid. I have to add a cal-mag buffer to stabilize the fertilizer's pH to keep it from dropping, but never acid. Having meters will take the guessing out of the picture and allow a person to know what's going on at any given moment.

 

[linde]

People would be surprised how much a fertilizer lowers the pH. Do a test yourself and test the pH of a gallon of tap water....then mix in your scoop of fert. Test again. I'll bet you a bud that it'll drop the tap water ph by a whole point or so. Yes that much. So basically the fert application works as a ph down and no need to add extra. 95% of the time Ive got lockout issues, the pH is ALWAYS low. Never too high. As a matter of fact I cannot remember ever having a lockout from ph being too high. Always low.

 

[linde]

Let's put it this way...that ph down bottle has gotta be 25 yrs old and barely touched. I've gone thru 2 or 3 ph up bottles since and finally bought a quart one this last time.

 

[linde]

One more thing. Do yourself a favor and spend the money on good meters if you're gonna grow dope in the first place. Most cheap ec and ph meters aren't accurate at all. Find ones that are accurate and calibrate up easily. Plus accurate and uncontaminated calibration solutions are a must. Good luck and carry on.