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Hempy pots with Faux Mix®? Too much peat ;).
 
LOL! No, I mean if it's a hempy pot it should be perlite only, no peat. Sorry, bad joke!
 
I got it...on edit. I was there...took a bit...but i got there. I smoke you know.
 
Wait...if it's a hempy pot, does that mean there's just one hole about 1.5-2" up and no holes across the bottom?
 
There are 8 holes about a 1/2 inch up. Like this. With a little chamber at the bottom like this.

Hempy chambered pots with speed gills......patent pending.
 
Im seeing ph lockout problem now that are slowly progressing. medium is still too wet to slurry test, so I used the 2 prong meter thing and it was at or near a ph of 8. I would say my medium is too sour and I need to sweeten it and the sooner the better. I picked up some aluminum sulfate for the quick hitter, but I'd really like to avoid it. What are your thoughts on lowering the pH of the watering to 4.5 with vinegar? Aluminum sulfate?

I couldnt find any iron sulphate and all I have is instant coffee.

I say 4.5 because I read that this is zero alkalinity and will move your ph by 1.0. I cant find the source again.
 
For now I have added about 1.5 inches top dressing of just peat to all plants. Next watering (about 3 days) I am aiming to nute @ 5.0 ph or lower.

Im wondering if diluted aluminum sulfate will stay in the medium and work at keeping the ph down or is it water soluble and just wash away over time. Same for vinegar and coffee, which I suspect just washes away and is a temporary ph fix.

I also have some hot tub chems of ph down, I have no idea what the chemical makeup of that would be. Sodium bisulfate perhaps.
 
Baron Von Blurple said:
What are your thoughts on lowering the pH of the watering to 4.5 with vinegar? Aluminum sulfate?
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I have no idea on AS. Vinegar would work(if you smell calmag it's mostly vinegar based) but I hear it's not that stable. I'm no expert since I've never had to deal with anything outside of pH Up or Down.
 
Sorry Baron, remind me again on how things got so out of whack. This is Faux Mix in hempy? Peat itself is very acidic in nature and has a pH of 4.5, which is why there is lime added to the mix to bring it up. Now your saying it's 8? That would have taken a ton of lime to move it that far.
 
farside05 said:
Sorry Baron, remind me again on how things got so out of whack. This is Faux Mix in hempy? Peat itself is very acidic in nature and has a pH of 4.5, which is why there is lime added to the mix to bring it up. Now your saying it's 8? That would have taken a ton of lime to move it that far.
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Well its one of those water meter things, I dont hold much credence in them. A slurry test I did came it at 7.43 but the medium was wet and the results could be skewed.
Back at post 40 is where I made the Canadian Praux Mix® and Im thinking it would be too much lime. It certainly wasnt a ton of lime, I based it of you smaller bag of peat that you used as in Canada its a little bigger.

Theres no hempy here. Just my pots are chambered with holes a half inch up on them instead of the bottom. Im getting all kinds of leaf turndown like Nitrogen toxicity. Dull leaves, yellowing on the sides and tip from middle aged leaves. I will update tommorow with pics. I did a 4 gallon tap water flush 2 days ago and followed with half gallon full nutes.
 
So you used 13 tablespoons of lime. It's 2 tablespoons for each gallon of soil made. So you made 6.5 gallons of soil? But you said you used 1/3 of a 3.8 cubic foot bale of peat. My bale is 3 cubic foot and half a bale is about 20 gallons of soil and is therefore 40 tablespoons. If anything I would think too little lime was used and the pH would be too low, not too high.
 
Well dont that make my brown eyes blue....a complete swing in thinking. Yet none of my tests lean in that direction. :hmmmm:

I have some of the mix leftover, I shall slurry test it tommorow.
 
Honestly I can't say what the pH of mine is. I've never tested it. When I can up with the recipe for Faux Mix® and how much lime to add to the peat, I got a general consensus from several University websites and trusted that. The resulting product worked so I questioned it no further.
 
btw...like your new sig add on.
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farside05 said:
Thanks. Changed the avatar too. It's now "Mega Man"...lol
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I see what you did there....

As a huge Maiden fan when I was 16, Im torn between the avatars...
 
Baron Von Blurple said:
I see what you did there....

As a huge Maiden fan when I was 16, Im torn between the avatars...
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Ole Smiley Eddie has been with me a lot of years on many a forum (not all cannabis related). Someone here already had the user name Eddie, which was my usual handle back in the day of satellite TV security circumvention.
 
farside05 said:
So you used 13 tablespoons of lime. It's 2 tablespoons for each gallon of soil made. So you made 6.5 gallons of soil? But you said you used 1/3 of a 3.8 cubic foot bale of peat. My bale is 3 cubic foot and half a bale is about 20 gallons of soil and is therefore 40 tablespoons. If anything I would think too little lime was used and the pH would be too low, not too high.
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I was supposed to be asleep when I wrote this, so I didn't spend the time to do the math because I wanted to get back to bed.

If a half a 3.0cf bale (or 1.5cf) = 20 gallons of Faux Mix®/Praux Mix®, then 1/3 of a 3.8cf bale is 1.27cf and should produce 17 gallons of Praux Mix®. If you add 2 tablespoons of dolomite lime to each gallon of product made, that would be 34 tablespoons or 2.125 (2 and 1/8) cups. If in fact you did make 17 gallons of mix, and only put in 13 tablespoons of lime, you put in 38% of the amount you should have.
 
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