Makes alot of sense to why my seedlings are so inactive! and probably most of my plants!
so you would suggest my liquid nutrients for soil medium be at a lower P.H. than 6.3?
ive got a bit of tinkering to do but , will find a new big trashcan for a water reservoir and maintain the ph for my soil medium plants…
class starts now lol
im afraid to check my cloning water lol id imagine. a p.h. of 8.x lol
with using bottled PH UP and DOWN…is there caution required?
i find when i use a dropper, im much more accurate…but sometimes i just pour it in. then its like down to 4 lol. and i really dont want to dump PH UP in there too. ill usually dump it and start over
and usually when i mix my nutrients via REMO calculator. it drops down super low also
so if these feeds arent at the right p.h. . the plant cant access the nutrients and could be toxic
I never check ph for clones or seedlings either. Just once they move from seedlings or clones to full on rooted plants. Then I ph to 6.2 in veg and move up to 6.5 for flowering. All of this I had to learn the hard way. Nutrient lock-out killed off several of my plants while I figured it out. Now I feel very confident in my growing techniques.
ive got two plants that i just noticed are female (woo wtf@@) and i dont even know whatt they are . i have a guess to one ,ione is a blueberryxhashplant and another a random chuckd genetics. i was selecting my seeds to grow last and i was picking them out and labelling to soak in paper towel…and i stood up and there was a loose bean there… so i said shag it and plant as random.
i up potted before i took a week trip at the end of last month. i should be able to identify through my photos.
this trainwreck is going to be nuts. i should of veg it longer. but i have cuts
i just watered it . but i thinnk im going to lean it sideways to expose the lower of plant lol. its a true xmas tree
each medium has a different PH range…
Hydroponics in rockwool, hydroton pellets or in NFT or airoponics… PH is generally no higher than 5.8
In soilless mix… I input at 6.6 to 6.8
for an organic soil I would do the same 6.6 to 6.8
As the plant dries and absorbs the nutrients made availlable at 6.8… I find the media’s PH begins to drift down to 6.2. Each time I water or feed I want to reset that PH to the higher number
I don’t want to confuse you but I would seriously look at going with 6.6 to 6.8
mix your food as usual in a 1 gallon jug … take a ph reading. Add 6 drops of Up or Down as required… shake and measure again … repeat until you hit the magic number.
Write that amount of drops down on a chart on your wall.
Then do the same with your plain water… check ph, adjust, then write the number of drops down for plain water.
Now you have a baseline to work with to hit the correct PH everytime.
i’m a little fuzzy headed tonight from some meds and its been a long day.
thanks for taking the time to reply and work with me!
Ive been pretty fast and loose with my nutrients. id mix a batch for say , 4 5 gallon pots at week 1 flower . and whats left over id keep and dilute and feed to veg plants , or hold it for another feed .
i went a good year without P.H. , now, i dont mean a Good Year growing Lol but …i went a year without a functioning pen. the plants suffered for sure.
So it will be good to start feeding them properly. they could all be locked out for all i know!
ill have to hope for the best with whats currently growing , and get some consistency for future plants☆
i paid for the pen , so i may as well use it to benefit myself and the plants!
wondering if there is anything that could slow plants down from flowering? i think im being a bit hard on them for just 2 weeks lol
they could be locked out? i didnt see any stretch.
im 2 weeks in and seems super slow out the gate… . .
only change this time is i didnt schwazzz the shit out of them on day zero. im somewhat afraid to strip them now as i dont want to stress them out…
the plants were held in veg state for a long time
other info… lights off at 9pm to 9am… bit cold over nighy this time of year but there is another tent next to it and a furnace lol
There is something nutrient wise going on with your blooming plants. They have purple on the stalks I think it’s a deficiency. I’d test the soil for sure, and see what’s what.
never checked run off…just fed them p.h. accurate feed.
played around inn veg tent.
up potted a GG#4 .
(3 more are pretty root bound…BC big bud and a random.and blue berry. gotta get up potted…i only have 3 gallons i think…illl check recent amazon order)
rooting hormone isn’t needed. The white bumps are root nodes so they’ll root. The gooey ones are not going to make it. Usually when light falls on the wet stem of the plant it can rot off.
It’s like an opportunistic infection that sets in. Powered by the mixture of light and some nutrients. Small organisms like rotifers etc. Just looking in shouldn’t hurt. It’s usually water wicks up the stalk of the plant into the light when there is some nutrient in there above like .2EC, it seems to get strange organisms growing. Doesn’t happen all the time either, but I’ve found it can kill off an easy 50% of them, by turning them into mush.
i find ive had cuts last in cups of water in the “right” environment and just stay fresh all over! usually very low light room, cool air .
good for preserving cuts but maybe not perfect enough to root.
id really like to learn about the science of cloning and rooting.
i know people have been doing it forever with all kinds of plants
stories of friends mom just taking a clip of something from the nursery section at grocrry store. or my dad planting a cut of some weird plant and putting it in a wine bottle or wide mouthed glass jar and it grows!
