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Any advice on how I could better train these current plants?

These are right at the start of 12/12 Getting ready to tie them down soon

My lights are 1000 watt HPS. I have 3 of them in flower with 6 pots under each. In the veg room I have 1 1000 watt HPS with 18 pots under it. Rosco that seems like a great yield and your canopy looks awesome!

I would prefer not to use a net/scrog unless it is a last resort. Space is really tight and it was quite a nightmare the few times I have done scrog in this room.

How do you do arrange the plants and stems when doing lst? I am quite familiar with it and use lst along with topping but have the greatest amount of trouble with getting everything to take up an equal amount of space and stay at the same height. My veg and flower room are separate so I have...

I have been growing for a while and have not been getting the yield that I should be. The one thing I am not good at is training, thinning out and arranging everything efficiently under the lights. My setup is 6 grow and flow buckets under a 1000 watt light with a magnum xxxl reflector. I...

I checked the bucket of old solution and new solution and they both had a ph of 5.7. I'm thinking it has to be something in the system that is decaying but whatever it is, is in all 3?

As far as nutes go, that is about the only thing that I have not yet checked. I went and bought 3 new bottles of nutes today. I mixed the old in a 5 gallon bucket and mixed the new in a 5 gallon bucket. They had the same ph of 5.8. I am going to check them both in the morning and see if...

I am growing in flood and drain buckets with hydroton and using GH nutrients. I use RO water and just changed the filters and membrane in the last 3 weeks. Normally I can control my ph by the strength of my nutrients and when everything is good the ph slowly climbs and the ppm stays about the...

My reservoir is the 60 gallon barrel that comes with the grow n flow system. I have got my ppm very stable at 780. Every morning I set my ph to 5.3 by adding a lot of ph down in the orange bag. The next day when I check the ph rises to 6.5. I have repeated this cycle for awhile now. I am...

I have a bluelab ph and ppm meter thay I use to measure everything. fatawa.. thats an awesome analogy and makes perfect sense!

I have slowly brought the ppm's down to 780. They are stable here and go down about 10 ppm every day. My pH is really becoming an issue now however. I set it at 5.4 and by the next day it is up to 6.5. I'm going through a ton of pH Down.

Ok, sounds good. Any idea why the ph is going up instead of down? When I start lowering the PPM I will really have to watch it as I suspect it will go up even faster.

My setup was definitely dialed in as far as ph and ppm before using the additive. I will try lowering the ppm. Could you or anyone provide an explanation of why adding the real growers recharge bacteria and fungi has caused my ph and ppm to change so much?

Ok, thanks. I have chemicals to adjust the ph but have never had to use them as the ph and ppm have always behaved perfectly without adjustment until I started using the real growers recharge. I would just discontinue it to solve the ph and ppm problem but the RGRC really makes a big difference...