Barney's Farm - Mimosa X Orange Punch - SIP

[StoneOtter]

 

[Tokin Roll]

Caught up.

Sorry about not catching your DWC journal earlier. I have about three weeks left on my auto's and I will be starting my next DWC. I will tag you when I start and yes it is KIS method down to progressive buckets.

Stay safe and grow well my friend,
Tok..

 

[Ke0ncp]

Man! I’m a stoner! I accidentally posted this in my DWC abandoned thread….. SORRY. Haha

Day 10:

Wow only 10 days…. Feels like a month hahaha

So slurry test is looking good. Did a fresh calibration on the meter and after 30 mins this is where it’s sitting

It will rise to 5.7 after about 5 mins of sitting and then I give it a good stir and it will drop to 5.5 and then right to 5.6

This is stuff right out of the sip so it’s been around moisture for 24 hours now. I think that it’s looking much better than the last batch of promix I had! I will check it again in a few hours and then again tomorrow to be certain though.

Little girl seems happy and is showing no signs of stress that I can see despite having been poked and prodded to get her open to begin with, and then the swamp, PH down burn and finally a move.




Well that about sums up todays update.

 

[Ke0ncp]

And it’s still holding strong at 5.6 a couple hours later.

 

[Chuckeye]

Now you can live dangerously, No ph down

Cheers

 

[Ke0ncp]

Now you can live dangerously, No ph down

Cheers

See this is where I get confused.

I get that ph’ing my nutes does not change the ph of the media. But in a SIP there are roots both in the media and in the reservoir, so for the roots in the reservoir wouldn’t the same ph range as hydro apply? And require the nutes to be ph’d accordingly?

I know I have ran the past 2 grows in SIP and did both PH’d and un PH’d nutes. But just having gone through my whole DWC debacle it has me questioning how I actually ran my SIPs.

I’m sure there is something I’m not getting here and I know I’ve been told that I shouldn’t have to ph my nutes using the promix. But the past month of reading up on hydro is telling me that I still need to ph and not to the same ph all of the time.

I was actually thinking of changing the ph of the nutes through a range of 5.8 - 6.5. My next round of reading was going to be what end of the range to be for veg and flower. If I remember correctly during veg the ph tends to drift up and in flower drift down. So would it be best to balance that with a lower ph nute during veg and higher during flower? Or is this only applicable to strait hydro, no media?

Or am I way off base and completely missing what’s going on?

 

[Chuckeye]

I actually didn't get that deep into it.

After years of hauling city water, buying "spring water", my well water and phing all of it I haven't used ph down and never Cal/Mag in my last 3 (?) grows with no issues....

Your water in ph isn't that important, ProMix HP is ph buffered and Mega Crop one part is chelated !

Now I just use my well water > ppm's ~500, ph 7.5, water that nobody in their right mind would consider using

Turns out it works for me

KISS

Cheers

 

[InTheShed]

As I recall the amount of root mass actually in the reservoir itself isn't supposed to be that large. The air gap is supposed to air prune them.

Your water in ph isn't that important, ProMix HP is ph buffered and Mega Crop one part is chelated !

I'm hoping you can explain to me how whether something is chelated makes any difference to whether you need to pH adjust those nutes. I asked the originator of that idea on this site and they were 100% unable to explain or provide any proof that it's a thing.

Also, almost every synthetic nutrient line with metals in it (e.g. iron, zinc, manganese, copper), has those elements chelated.