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Got a question maybe someone can help me with, can i use tap water or bottle water to mix with buffer solution to calibrate ph meter, im not sure but the solution should buffer to the correct ph as long as i use correct amount of water i was thinking.✌
 
tom smith said:
Got a question maybe someone can help me with, can i use tap water or bottle water to mix with buffer solution to calibrate ph meter, im not sure but the solution should buffer to the correct ph as long as i use correct amount of water i was thinking.✌
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Trying to stretch out the supply of buffer solutions? I'm afraid it won't work well, but I'm eager to know your results if you decide to do it anyways. In water, there are solids dissolved that influence the ph one way or the other. So if you start with a solution that is 7.01 ph, and you thin that out with something that is other, the buffer solution will then be contaminated and not reliable. The whole point of having the buffer solution in the first place is to calibrate your meters against something that YOU KNOW is accurate.

TDS should be a no brainer. Mine is 1382 I think. If I add water, it will be diluted to an unknown number and from that point unreliable.
 
Skybound said:
Are you growing in soil or soil-less medium? Your other room stats look ideal, so it's probably nute related, but can you post a single pic in your reply so we don't have to dig back a few pages to your original posts?
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I am using a soil mix that has forest ocean forest with ancient forest and roots organic mixed in as well. I did starve her of water pretty bad. It's a super sour Berry plant I think the strain is much more temperamental then the others. I'll never grow it again .
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Fischer said:
It's about 80 degrees I'm using the fox farm nutes and she is in the 6th week of flower but seems to be behind all the others. I have a cal mag supplement. Humidity is in the 45/55%
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I went back b/c I had the time to spare, and from what I see in your last posted pic is either P or K related. In my experience K def and P def look very similar except K starts at the leaf margins and P shows more in the middles of the leaf fingers. Either case, mid bloom is time to lower the N and bring up the P & K levels in the feeding. More specifically than FF Nutes, as I found a fair amount of products in their lineup, can you specify which bottles you're using, which grow medium and what was the exact mixture recipe you last mixed up? As in ml/gal, tsp/gal, TBLS/gal etc.
 
Skybound said:
I went back b/c I had the time to spare, and from what I see in your last posted pic is either P or K related. In my experience K def and P def look very similar except K starts at the leaf margins and P shows more in the middles of the leaf fingers. Either case, mid bloom is time to lower the N and bring up the P & K levels in the feeding. More specifically than FF Nutes, as I found a fair amount of products in their lineup, can you specify which bottles you're using, which grow medium and what was the exact mixture recipe you last mixed up? As in ml/gal, tsp/gal, TBLS/gal etc.
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Well I did a flush on Thursday last week to start then I gave her half of a feeding of the 9 week schedule minus the floral sprays... I had went away for three days came back and she was dry witch made everything worse.. here is the schedule o pretty much stick too
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I used about 8 gallon of fox farm ocean forest with about 3 gallon of roots organic and about 3 gallon of the ancient forest as well. I also added clayballs.
 
odinsmaster said:
I'm using fox farm nuet line, their feeding schedule shows veg 4 weeks. If I want too veg longer should I just maintain week 4 feeding?
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yes, though you may need to gradually increase the strength as the weeks progress.
 
Excitement in the garden. Cleanin up gettin ready to feed, bumped my head on what will be a much more securely mounted four foot light fixture and down it came. I only recieved damage to the top branch on my next to slowest grower. My little sick girl got it bad. I didnt have time for pics but it was not pretty. A lifetime of repairing wiring harnesses and such was very helpfull today. As was being a little more experianced
 
Lilolme said:
Excitement in the garden. Cleanin up gettin ready to feed, bumped my head on what will be a much more securely mounted four foot light fixture and down it came. I only recieved damage to the top branch on my next to slowest grower. My little sick girl got it bad. I didnt have time for pics but it was not pretty. A lifetime of repairing wiring harnesses and such was very helpfull today. As was being a little more experianced
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Supercrop 101 by lilolme ...
It's my greatest fear I'll walk in one day to a 7kg light halfway through the SCROG
 
So I have a friend who left his plants for a week without water due to a clogged hose in his irrigation system. So he believes two of his plants are dead. They were supposed to be ready for harvest in about 2 weeks, so I kinda just adviced him to chop it if it doesn't show any signs of life very soon. And then salvage what he can of the harvest.

Do you think the buds lost much potency from being dried out until death of the plant like that? I mean - they would have been ready for harvest if you like your trichomes milky white. So what do you think - It's worth harvesting?
 
On the positive side - he won't need to dry the buds. Directly to cure :)
 
Lonestar11 said:
And how crucial is it to keep the RH in desired range during the first few weeks of flowering?
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It's more important to pull the RH down for the second half of flowering when there are many large buds and many leaves that all sweat constantly.
 
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