Rellikbuzz
Active member
Well, from what I can gather, Sack, different soil mixes and different nute programs can have varying affects. With Fox Farms Ocean Forest and Fox Farms Light Warrior (in a 2 to 1 mix) with Advanced Nutrients 2+ program, I experienced a dramatic fall in PH as salts built up in the soil. That's not to say that your regime could/would have the opposite affect.
While 7.0 is considered at the top of the acceptable range, most would agree that a PH of 6.0-6.3 would be more beneficial to your plants, especially when flowering. Rezdog even states that he has the best results between 5.8-6.0 with some of his strains.
If I were you, I might lower the PH of your nutes to about 6.0-6.3 to try and buffer that high PH you are experiencing. You might try it on a few of your plants first to see if they respond better to the lowering of the PH. But, mind you, you might want to lower it a little at a time (maybe a couple of tenths of a point at a time). You don't want to stress the plant with a huge PH swing all at one time.
The thing to realize is that a lowering of the PH during flower begins to lock out nitrogen a bit (which is what you want) and makes Potassium and Phosphorus more available. This is what the flowering plant is craving for anyway. So, by simply manipulating your PH downward during flower helps to make the nutrients that the plant needs/want more available to them.
While 7.0 is considered at the top of the acceptable range, most would agree that a PH of 6.0-6.3 would be more beneficial to your plants, especially when flowering. Rezdog even states that he has the best results between 5.8-6.0 with some of his strains.
If I were you, I might lower the PH of your nutes to about 6.0-6.3 to try and buffer that high PH you are experiencing. You might try it on a few of your plants first to see if they respond better to the lowering of the PH. But, mind you, you might want to lower it a little at a time (maybe a couple of tenths of a point at a time). You don't want to stress the plant with a huge PH swing all at one time.
The thing to realize is that a lowering of the PH during flower begins to lock out nitrogen a bit (which is what you want) and makes Potassium and Phosphorus more available. This is what the flowering plant is craving for anyway. So, by simply manipulating your PH downward during flower helps to make the nutrients that the plant needs/want more available to them.
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