ohhhh I see meow and you are totally right. I never heard of NFTG but sounds cool. Yeah my water here is alarming shitty for where I live. No joke my tap water is like 500-700tds and 7.5ph+ so that spooked me into gettin a cheap RO system for under the sink. Come to think of it the last sentence you wrote I think is exactly what happened to my Chem Cookies last grow. It caused my fabric pots to be white on the outside. I don't know but it was as if the roots would repel certain nutes like Cal and leech them out the pots
No one said anything about pH adjusting removing alkalinity. What we're trying to get you to understand is the chemistry that is going on here. It's not as simple as add pH down to adjust because alkalinity will over time ... drive that pH right back up again. There's a difference between alkalinity of a water sample and its pH.
Your pots are far to young to have this buildup you speak of… it takes a significant amount of time and lack of runnoff to get a buildup.
Exactly… lol ima leave the explanations to you. Honestly lost all my patience on this subject… its like beating your head against a brick wall
I never said or suggested that PH reduces calcium buildup. What I said was that the calcium buildup causes the soil PH to rise over time (sure, right now they are probably too young to see the effects of that, but preventative measures are best) and by watering at a lower PH can help stabilize the PH in the soil, combating the climb.
Right, it’ll drive it up over time…unless you keep it in check by lowering the PH of the water that’s going in so while it may continue to rise, it’s not rising as much.
I get it that at face value, what you're saying makes sense ... but in the realms of chemistry and how these things interact with each other things don't behave at a molecular level how you think they do.
No you cant… thats the thing
Maybe that’s where the confusion is… I am not using any phosphoric acid or any other “PH down” product. The thing I would use to lower SOIL ph would be Gaia Mania which is a digested liquid form derived from soybean, feather, kelp, bone meals and worm castings. That is something that does bring the PH of the soil down.
HAH extremely rare but I do believe that plant got too twisted at a wicked rave last night and just hadn't recovered fully yet. Pfft frkin Molly
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Yes! I need to remember this. I’ll trudge it through this time…but plan to have a filter or RO system in place for the next one. Thanks for reminding me!
The Gaia Mania is used to lower PH for water only days. Seems to be what everyone uses and has positive results. I do use Herc Harvest when feeding, along with a few others. I actually haven’t had to feed yet since transplanting though. The soil had a little fertilizer in it.
Not RO .... a simple filter system is plenty.
Are you using a peat based mix?