Advice for seedling

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buddhaBudman

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Vinegar, lemon juice are both acid’s to bring down ph in lieu of ph down...
That's what I read too. Someone mentioned lemon juice / vinegar could kill off beneficial bacteria. So they suggested just incorporating grape juice which I guess is ph 3 they said. I think this gets into the ph value is ph value and it doesn't matter what you use as long as you bring it down so the water is at the ph you want before watering. I'd be worried about the sugar content of the grape juice myself. I'm thinking I'm going to use distilled water to try to pull her soil ph down.
 
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Dan789

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hey Dan , I agree , see first sentence " I'm a strick up pot kind of guy "
Well we all offer the best advice we can , and everyone learns thru experience , so it's all good .......
Sorry, re-read your post...duh.
 
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That's what I read too. Someone mentioned lemon juice / vinegar could kill off beneficial bacteria. So they suggested just incorporating grape juice which I guess is ph 3 they said. I think this gets into the ph value is ph value and it doesn't matter what you use as long as you bring it down so the water is at the ph you want before watering. I'd be worried about the sugar content of the grape juice myself. I'm thinking I'm going to use distilled water to try to pull her soil ph down.
That conclusion ignores what PH down is formulated with and how that impacts beneficial bacteria...Too critical a question when other more impact full decisions are yet to be implemented on your part...IE, "fiddling while Rome burns". imho
 
buddhaBudman

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That conclusion ignores what PH down is formulated with and how that impacts beneficial bacteria...Too critical a question when other more impact full decisions are yet to be implemented on your part...IE, "fiddling while Rome burns". imho
Imho, you haven't really shared any meaningful advice other than throwing shade on other people participating in the thread. You've been rather negative and condescending too. Perhaps you've had a rough couple days? This crisis is hard on everyone. You also didn't appear to read the thread in it's entirety before participating. "If you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all."
 
buddhaBudman

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Just a little update. I decided to flush her until the runoff matched the distilled water at 6.5. So I've done that. I started misting her a bit with a spray with a bit of humic carbon in there. I plan to pot her up to a square plastic pot I used to keep my mom's in, it's 5" across. Gonna wait until she's not so wet maybe a few days. I'm going to use pure BM6 soil with a bit of old myke additive I have when I pot up. I will moisten the soil before potting with the humic carbon spray. I have some other additives like greensand and stuff but I think since she's in recovery I'm going to just keep it fairly simple. I've taken her lighting down from 16 hours to 15.

Thanks for all the helpful advice so far!
 
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