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?
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
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.
So should I use Lime to raise the ph in the soil? What is preferred?
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:
I used 60 percent Hydrafiber/40 of soil
Noooooooooooooo not just any lime ....
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.
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.
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.
@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.
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.
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
