Are your plants suffering? My tap water come out of faucet is ph 8.0 my runoff is 6.2 but unless my plants are suffering i rarely check ph, (all i grow is autos) you can buy water if its hard or off, you can buy stuff to raise and lower your ph, but with autoflowers you can tell if there running right, other things can throw off your ph such as types of nutrients over feeding ect, your autos are 45 days old they should be in flower and almost ready for bloom nutrients, i can give you better advice if i could see a pic of your plant, my ph bounces around a bit but what are your plants doing? Your sweating over something that may not matter in the long run yea we all want our ph perfect but sometimes its off i very rarely fix or even check ph unless im seeing a problem, i have run enough autoflowers to know there mo, lets see a pic this is my last grow of 2 critical autos i think i checked my ph 1 time but if i see something off the first thing u do is check ph and go from there, lets see a pic
Here are 3 different auto strains all the same age. At one point they were all struggling badly with drooping, and lighter color leaves. Two of them in the photos are starting to get on the right track but I'm still struggling with one. All three have the same Ph runoff. My well water ph is in the high 7's so I use ph down from GH to get it closer to 6 when I water. Well waters initial ppm without anything added is 320. Ive added a small amount of nutrients early on from
GH flora series but I believe that was too early and I had major drooping early on. The last few weeks its only been fed PHd water of around 6 without any nutes and theyve all gotten better than they were but still showing issues. Runoff is the same ph everytime of around 7.
The first image is a super skunk auto, My last watering was yesterday at a ph of 6.4, 320ppm no added nutes. Runoff ph was 7.1 705ppm.
2nd image is a Blueberry Cookies auto, watered 3 days ago at 6.2 ph, 320ppm no added nutes. Runoff on ph 6.9, 785ppm.
3rd image is a white widow x
big bud. watered 3 days ago at 6.2 ph, 320ppm no added nutes. Runoff 6.95, 731ppm.
All images my camera flash is on.
I have
general hydroponics flora trio series nutes plus a bottle of cali magic from them too. Ive stayed away from using them again from last times experience but maybe they're ready for some nutes? I've held off because I figured I needed to get my runoff ph in line first.