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Can you suggest a good ph meter too?
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You can read the first post of one of my threads here:
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=268343
As far as a pH meter. Anyone will be fine as long as it can be calibrated and is working accurately. I stopped using those nutes and switched to GH Flora Series instead so my formulas in my thread are with that. I also use Fox Farm Soil and that formula with GH can really help you. You are going to have to compare my formula with GH and find one similar with your nutes. My trick to also use the Powdered Kool Bloom with my "Charge Technique" and for some reason the Kool Bloom Powder allows me to raise my pH of my soil a lot faster. For what you have you would use the BC Boost and the BC Grow and I would use the B-1 Red as well but I would go to 1 tsp per gallon. If you got 5 gallon pots, you probably need 15-20 gallons of solution per plant. Don't let the plant sit in the solution. You can use the bathtub to do your treatments. You will know the treatment is complete when you check the Run-Off of the soil and get it as close to 6.4 as you can.
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Would it
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And can the gh flora series be used with soil?
No it's much better to get the soil in line before your next repot.
If you can get your hands on the nutes that I use and do my "charge", technique, you will be all good and your plants will be fixed within a week and be mad healthy. That technique took me years to figure out and I've brought plants back that had no green left in them with multiple charges. I swear by that technique and formula. Also buy some pH up cause you are going to need it to pH your nutes. You may need some pH down for after your plant is getting just water again between nutes if your water pH is high. Always nute and water your soil at 6.8 pH at all times.
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Thanks so much for all the tips... I'm on it, I'll keep ya posted...
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who is neg reping snype posts and why ? and if you have anything constructive to add please do!
also i do check the run off to be safe ! good sound advice from the others ! i will say i think the cheese leaves do come out slightly yellow looking when fresh new grow appears! but the leaves in your photo,s are inverted? and the edges sticking up slightly perhaps also indicating excessive heat perhaps? imo.
i do trust snype's opinion 100%
also i do check the run off to be safe ! good sound advice from the others ! i will say i think the cheese leaves do come out slightly yellow looking when fresh new grow appears! but the leaves in your photo,s are inverted? and the edges sticking up slightly perhaps also indicating excessive heat perhaps? imo.
i do trust snype's opinion 100%
Cowardly trolls.....I have several. Just have to ignore them.
Wanted to point out, don't have the fan blowing directly on the plants when they are that close, as it appears they are in the photo.
When people follow you around all day just to neg rep you, you know you are doing pretty well! The rep system doesn't mean anything to me and I don't know why people care about it. Anyway willy, thanks for your comments. The poster here posted his heat and it wasn't that bad but no one really know because we are not in his room. The fact that he didn't pH his nutes says it all to me. For 10 years I never pH'd my Technaflora nutes and the pH would stay at arournd 5.8-6.4. So I believe that's where his pH is at.
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can the mods not do anything about it? who would be best to ask?
LOL! This is the internet willy! Can't take it so seriously or you will lose your mind.
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Snype You are correct my ph is 5.6 I did the flush as you said and the runoff is still 5.6 ph how do I raise it"
Thanks for thg help
Thanks for thg help
My formula called for:
6mL GH Flora Micro
9mL GH Flora Bloom
1.25 grams Kool Bloom Powder
All per gallon at 6.8 pH
The Kool Bloom Powder in the formula seems to be what does it for me. You must have done something wrong if you used the exact formula above. It's the Powdered Kool Bloom not the liquid. If you have 5 Gallon containers, you will need to dump 15 Gallons of Solution. Let me know if you did what I stated above or if you didn't add enough solution to your pot. It doesn't make any sense that it didn't raise your Run-Off at all.
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Also against your advice I repotted into 5gallon buckets with the fox farm and vermiculite
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Can I use hydrated lime
Can you please give me a step by step of what you did? Tell me how much water you used each time and exactly what products that you put into the water including your pH up product? I need to know exactly the way that you did everything. Also tell me how big your pots are. It wasn't smart to repot first because now you flushed out all of your nutrients from the Fox Farm Soil.
If you dumped 15 Gallons into each 5 Gallon container of my above solution, it wouldn't make any sense that the pH didn't rise. It matters how you take the pH test in terms of what stage in the process are you testing. I don't test the total solution. I wait until the last drops and I don't contaminate it at all. the last drops that i'm talking about should be about 100-200 mL. I use this process on a weekly basis with my plants and it works every time. some times I have to dump way more than 15 Gallons into a 5 Gallon pot if my pH is 5.4 or below. That's why I wanted to know your steps. Anyway good luck with the process. I just hope you have the powder kool Bloom and not the liquid because that didn't work for me. I hope you also notice that I still use Bloom nutrients in VEG and I don't use the VEG nutes for this process.
