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Thank you! I did read through all of it and somehow still missed it. In spanish we call growing tents "armarios" sometimes which translates to closets. We also call them "tiendas", which is obviously tents, but yeah when I saw closet I didnt think literally a closet hahaha.
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What would putting a tent inside of the closet? What would that do to the temps if I have fresh cooler air sucking in from outside of closet and blowing out ? Will a smaller space help maintain temps or raise them?
 
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A smaller space needs less airflow to extract all the air but if you dont have proper airflow it can be worse.
 
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Also your lung room, which is where the closet or the indoors is located, needs ventilation too otherwise the hot air will accumulate in the lung room and you will reintroduce hot air again.
 
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A smaller space needs less airflow to extract all the air but if you dont have proper airflow it can be worse.
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I would have air flow coming in from outside of the closet from a room that has an AC in it . Sometimes gets down to 70 but not in the closet lmao. Maybe if I have the top exhausting hot air
 
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I would have air flow coming in from outside of the closet from a room that has an AC in it . Sometimes gets down to 70 but not in the closet lmao. Maybe if I have the top exhausting hot air
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Yes, that would help. Even if you dont have negative air pressure the more airflow you have the better. Its one of those things where you cant have too much of it. Not only to reduce hot air pockets, CO2 pockets and oxygen pockets also form when there's not enough airflow.
 
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When your growing space gets close to the lung room temperature you have enough, but more doesnt hurt.
 
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Okay thats for the heat, you still need to get that ph higher, some nutrients are being absorved at a crazy ratio while others are locked, and if youre using a peat based soil, below 5,5 ph alumina becomes water soluble and poisons your plant. What nutrients are you using?
 
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Luckily peat is not very chemically active so even if they got some alumina in them it wont be much, but its not good.
 
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Luckily peat is not very chemically active so even if they got some alumina in them it wont be much, but its not good.
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So should I use Lime to raise the ph in the soil? What is preferred?
 
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So should I use Lime to raise the ph in the soil? What is preferred?
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Well it depends... lime will help for sure but you can only top dress it at this point. I think a heavy flush with water at 6,5 ph plus top dressing some dolomitic lime if you have it could help. If you dont have it just heavily flush with 6,5 ph. But before that, Im confused about something:
SHes in Hydrafiber/Soil mix supposed to feed for 4 months.
4 months of feeding? Thats insane, what kind of mix is it? Isnt hydrafiber hydro? Whats the ratio of hydrafiber to soil? Because that might change the PH that you need.
 
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Well it depends... lime will help for sure but you can only top dress it at this point. I think a heavy flush with water at 6,5 ph plus top dressing some dolomitic lime if you have it could help. If you dont have it just heavily flush with 6,5 ph. But before that, Im confused about something:
SHes in Hydrafiber/Soil mix supposed to feed for 4 months.
4 months of feeding? Thats insane, what kind of mix is it? Isnt hydrafiber hydro? Whats the ratio of hydrafiber to soil? Because that might change the PH that you need.
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I used 60 percent Hydrafiber/40 of soil
 
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So should I use Lime to raise the ph in the soil? What is preferred?
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Noooooooooooooo not just any lime ....

If you want to avoid over-correcting your soil mix, use dolomite lime. Garden lime is too fast acting. However, at your stage of the grow where leaf issues won't be fixed by a pH change, you might not visually see any benefit. Acidic soil is frequently caused by your soil staying too wet. (NO to using hydrofiber in soil)
 
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I used 60 percent Hydrafiber/40 of soil
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Dont do that. Mixing hydro with soil is not good. You can use about 10% of coco coir or hydrafiber as conditioner for soil but going close to 50/50 is never good because they have different properties and different needs, that changes everything give me a second and Ill tell you what to do.
 
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Dont do that. Mixing hydro with soil is not good. You can use about 10% of coco coir or hydrafiber as conditioner for soil but going close to 50/50 is never good because they have different properties and different needs, that changes everything give me a second and Ill tell you what to do.
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In soil, use perlite to have a fast draining, quick drying, high O2 exchange mix. Hydrofiber is the opposite of what you want ... I'm also not a fan of a homegrower adding coco to their potting soil mix. Leave those tricks to the big companies with million dollar research and development teams and proper quality control procedures ... Homegrowers usually mess up by adding mediums with completely different characteristics together.
 
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Heavily flush the soil with water at 6ph. You can top dress with dolomite lime if you have it, just dont do too much. Even if you over correct a bit with the dolomite lime, it will not go higher than 6,5ph most likely but be careful. Reintroduce at least 1/4 of a nute dosage or 1/2 of a nute dosage after flushing to avoid deficiencies. What nutrients are you using?
 
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In soil, use perlite to have a fast draining, quick drying, high O2 exchange mix. Hydrofiber is the opposite of what you want ... I'm also not a fan of a homegrower adding coco to their potting soil mix. Leave those tricks to the big companies with million dollar research and development teams and proper quality control procedures ... Homegrowers usually mess up by adding mediums with completely different characteristics together.
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Well I do my own super soil so I know what Im doing when I add ammendments and conditioners to the soil but yes if you dont know just buy a premix and go with it, extra perlite at most if you have trouble watering more than once per week because it stays wet for too long.
 
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I did learn the hard way too though, nobody told me, I did a 50/50 peat/coco mix and was one of the worst grows of my life, nothing but problems.
 
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I did learn the hard way too though, nobody told me, I did a 50/50 peat/coco mix and was one of the worst grows of my life, nothing but problems.
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@Eledin if you're using coco to increase "CEC" in your super-soil mix, you might consider (or maybe you already do) using vermiculite. It's CEC rate is 2x-3x what coco is so you can use much less to get the same results without some of the potential drawbacks of coco/soil mixes - Food for thought.
 
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@Eledin if you're using coco to increase "CEC" in your super-soil mix, you might consider (or maybe you already do) using vermiculite. It's CEC rate is 2x-3x what coco is so you can use much less to get the same results without some of the potential drawbacks of coco/soil mixes - Food for thought.
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Good suggestion. I do use vermiculite for that reason yes good nutrient buffer. I use tree bark, arlite, perlite and vermiculite. Perlite to counter balance the water retention from vermiculite and arlite and tree bark because theyre good home for microorganisms and its nice that they have homes outside the rizhosphere or thats what I think at least haha.
 
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I did learn the hard way too though, nobody told me, I did a 50/50 peat/coco mix and was one of the worst grows of my life, nothing but problems.
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ive just done that , thought i would be getting the best of both worlds, mostly soil with coco for good drainage, but ive had problems, calmag issues, and ended up with a below par plant
 

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