Blastfact
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PH can really screw a grow up and I figured out last night what was going on with my two tents. So let me set this up. One tent the Grape Slurpee is a pure test grow of a gen one cross. And the genetics are whack,,, not worth a crap. The other was a suppose to be a good old GG4 grow in the other tent. Known genetics,,, good stuff. Both grows are in what I call one armed super soil. It's not living soil, but organic and stable. As long as the PH of my tap water does not go over a PH 7.8 or so the soil does deal with it well. So it's just tap to pot. And the PH has been stable for a couple of years. Water plant has been doing it's job for once with our lake water. But around Halloween the Grape Slurpee started getting weirder than normal. Then bounced back. I then beat on the plants a bit with some drought conditions, higher temps and high PPFD. They were doing surprisingly good then crashed. As did the GG4 tent. And the GG4 has been a problem because it was suppose to be a photo grow and one of the tow plants turned out to be a auto because my buddy packaged the seeds up stoned off his ass. Leaves were trying to yellow up, edges and tips burning. So I dropped the PPFD down, dropped the temps, got the RH right and they weren't recovering. So I made sure the environment was right, nutrients are right, lighting is good. And they bounced back after a good watering. Then they crashed again. Then it dawned on me check the damn PH of the tap water. Sure enough it was 8.7 PH. So I called a buddy of mine that is a retired water plant tech because he monitors water quality and has all these super certificates and is a water geek. He told me the PH of our water has been yoyoing up and down since Halloween. So those high PH spikes were screwing with my grows and I had got lazy and stopped checking PH. And the lows were not as bad as the highs. So the soil was dealing pretty good with the lows. But the highs they couldn't deal with. So I watered last night with 1/2 gal ea. at 6.3 PH water and I will hit them again tonight with a 1/2 gal ea. at 6.3 PH watering and get a bit of run off and let them dry back after that. I just watered them Tuesday with a 1 gal. ea. I don't want to wash out the Gaia Green and drown them out. But they should be ok by this weekend. Got to lazy..... and bit!