ph bouncing like a 64 impala

[norcal215]

ok i am very rarely stumped but this has to take the cake.... what would make my ez cloner water ph fluxuate from 6.0 to 4.0 in a few days time, and all i have added was power clone and a some ph down, because for the last three months my tap water has came out at 8.0 ph so i dropped the ph in the cloner to 6.0 or 5.8 and then i go back to check it out three days later and its at 4.0? water temps never exceed 75 degrees with my 1/4 horse chiller what gives?

 

[Seamaiden]

I would like to know the answer to this as well, because I've recently purchased an aerocloner from an associate and I would like to better understand how I can keep a mildly nutrient-saturated solution from shifting pH so drastically. If I have to keep adding pH adjusters it's going to become a soup.

 

[InvisibleM]

Whats in the power clone and the PH down?

 

[norcal215]

i cant answer that till this evening when i go in my rooms

 

[BongToker]

I have heard of this if you are not topping off the res, the water evaporates but leaves behind all the nutrients and salts.. Are the ppm rising also?

 

[Str8Dank]

i had this issue with mine and i decided it was too much hassle so i threw it in the corner and switched to rapid rooters. the pump is keeping my res mixed up in my flower room now. if someone has a answer to this i'll probably pull it out of retirement. i was using RO water for mine and still had this issue. i figured it was due to a lack of substance in my ro water making it very simple to drastically also mine seemed to yellow up more in the aero then with rooters which i thought had something to do with the ph issues.

 

[BongToker]

Ya I choose to use rapid rooters as well, seems to make things easier for me atleast

 

[Buddy Flowers]

got rapid rooters today. ez is not so easy anymore...for some reason. had great results in the past

 

[norcal215]

this is a new prob for me as well had this cloner for 4 years and havent changed anything

 

[InvisibleM]

Evaporation could have some affect on ph but probably not that much. When a plant uses ammonium the ph will always go down, so any fertilizer with a lot of ammonium in it will do this. Now once all the ammonium is used up the ph will stabilize. It could be something else though....

 

[Smokey503ski]

When this has happened to me, I gave the meter a good whack. It came back. I have the Hanna PH PPM combo meter. I opened it up and checked the PH wires that are inside. One was a little loose. I saudered it and never had the problem again.
Although some PH Probes do go out. The gel inside them dry's out and gives crazy readings.

 

[Buddy Flowers]

thanks invisible, that's good to know.

norcal215- have u noticed that they started making their inserts out of crappier material than they used to. a set of inserts would last me 6 runs if cleaned properly. now these things are ripping after 1 run. off-topic, i know

 

[Buddy Flowers]

"The gel inside them dry's out and gives crazy readings."


thanks, this may be my problem with my Blue Lab

 

[marihuanero]

is it secure if i buy seeds at this web siteee?

 

[Bioponic]

If you have used those products successfully in the past with the cloner then I would tend to agree with Invisible. If you are trying to use a pH down based on citric or acetic acid this would be what you would expect to happen.