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help! both pH and ppm rise!

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help! both pH and ppm rise!

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#101
tait said:
have any good ideas on the type of paint to buy?
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dnt paint. i made that mistake and than it started peeling after a while. Some reflective sheets would be good. take the pots out and cut a circle in the reflective sheet and than pot the net pots back in. also feel the empty net pot with pibbles like all the other once.
 
#102
tait said:
currently im just worried what i can paint it with that wont harm the plant, and will also be quick and easy as this is their only holding space
I let my water sit for 12-24 hours before dosing my pH, however lately my pH has seemed much more stable, raising short term but on an overall graph it’s actually lowering
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If I water a plant with 5.5pH water but that same water is at 7.0pH the next day, what is the pH of the water the plant is up-taking? (of course there is also the medium's effect on pH in some of our cases).

The above is what the app is not telling you. And I think it may be affecting your plants. It has risen the pH the soil I have plants in.
 
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#103
Painting the lid is definitely my next objective.
Or covering top with foil so the CIA can’t hear the reservoir’s thoughts
 
#104
PK1 said:
dnt paint. i made that mistake and than it started peeling after a while. Some reflective sheets would be good. take the pots out and cut a circle in the reflective sheet and than pot the net pots back in. also feel the empty net pot with pibbles like all the other once.
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I vote on cutting an x, don;t have to be so precise and holds tighter. if to much excess in the middle, cut it off.
 
#106
TryingToGrow said:
If I water a plant with 5.5pH water but that same water is at 7.0pH the next day, what is the pH of the water the plant is up-taking? (of course there is also the medium's effect on pH in some of our cases).

The above is what the app is not telling you. And I think it may be affecting your plants.
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Okay i definitely understand you,
so
is keeping my pH and EC probe in my reservoir incorrect? should they be placed up in the hydroton?
 
#107
PK1 said:
either or it works, but when cutting a X the raming reflective sheet would go inside the lid and hit his equipments. Overall you just wanna block the light hitting the water.
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by reflective material can i get away with aluminum foil
 
#108
i've seen some pictures with ppl doing it. You can definitely DIY something together. cardboards with aluminum foil
 
#109
If you must paint it, I would use a primer first to prevent chipping and also white primer is decent for reflecting light, though it may yellow after a while and many coats to stop light I'd imagine.
 
#110
tait said:
Okay i definitely understand you,
so
is keeping my pH and EC probe in my reservoir incorrect? should they be placed up in the hydroton?
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I am making sure my water pH does not rise before bringing it near my plants.

It must sit for a few days at least (after lowering the pH), without a significant (0.3 or more), rise in pH. Then it is okay to use.

I think probes in the res is fine but I have not done a set up like your in a long time, when I did, I used probes in res to check everything, never in the hydroton/rockwool.

Just looking at your graph in fist post of the thread, your pH rose nearly 0.3 in less than a day.
 
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TryingToGrow said:
I am making sure my water pH does not rise before bringing it near my plants.

It must sit for a few days at least (after lowering the pH), without a significant (0.3 or more), rise in pH. Then it is okay to use.

I think probes in the res is fine but I have not done a set up like your in a long time, when I did, I used probes in res to check everything, never in the hydroton/rockwool.

Just looking at your graph in fist post of the thread, your pH rose nearly 0.3 in less than a day.
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ah i sre what you’re getting at, luckily since that cleaning my pH and stayed pretty nominal
 
#112
here are my month and week charts, you can tell the day i started listening to you guys and stopped being an idiot, here i thought 800ppm was okay for a seedling 🤦🏼‍♂️




some explaining for the week chart, the heavy dosage of down then up was an error in my
program that i wasnt aware was happening and remixed a new rez right after, the Large spike in ppm and ph you see is me placing the probes in a glass of water whilst cleaning my reservoir with h2o2 the other day
 
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#113
what would you guys use if not aluminum foil for a reflective layer?

not against it, just wondering for durability sake, also worried about mold, ive had some develop on the board my humidifier sat on and on the chopsticks i used to prop up
my plants as seedlings, why im weary of attatching foil to cardboard
 
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i think this grow is just fucked :(
im sad but ill keep trying
 
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