This is about the happiest I've been since I harvested my first plant in the spring of 16!
@MIMedGrower and his short efficient plants were my inspiration, even before I found out his plants were kept short because he had a low-ceiling LOL! nonetheless this is going to be great for me! Don't know exactly how much but I know this will add substantially to my per plant yield too!
The water that channel's through the medium will have close to the same ph as your input liquid is, that will influence your test and not give a reliable indicator of the soils ph. The water I vacuum out is that influenced water, the water that now leaks out of the medium is more of an indicator of soil conditions because the channeled water is gone.Just a thought on that whole water channeling thing, probably has some truth to it but I personally don't worry about it
but if you'd like to minimize it at least twice during bloom I take a shish kebab skewer and I poke it about an inch to 2 inch deep about a hundred times all over the top of the soil, & all angled in towards the main stem of the plant;
and that seems to redirect the water, I can't say this is science but this is what I do and I do believe it works
The water that channel's through the medium will have close to the same ph as your input liquid is, that will influence your test and not give a reliable indicator of the soils ph. The water I vacuum out is that influenced water, the water that now leaks out of the medium is more of an indicator of soil conditions because the channeled water is gone.
I believe now that I've done both a deep soil slurry test and run off tests with both test within a couple of points of each other, the deep soil test is more harmful than helpful. A slurry test on a new medium where there are no roots to damage is understandable but to do the test and damage the roots in the process isn't. What difference do a couple of points make in the diagnosing of the mediums conditions? If a slurry test reveals 5.35 and a run off test reads 5.4 - 5.30 who cares your soil ph is too low, time do deal with it regardless of what the actual ph is imho
Thanks I needed that! lolI agree.
We'll have to agree to disagree on that but the numbers at the beginning and at the end are quite different; the last numbers more closely mirror what is poured in in my opinion and PPM in particular is often hundreds lower than the more accurate first draw from my experienceI agree.
We'll have to agree to disagree on that but the numbers at the beginning and at the end are quite different; the last numbers more closely mirror what is poured in in my opinion and PPM in particular is often hundreds lower than the more accurate first draw from my experience
Here's an experiment: take readings of first and last runoff and then do a slurry test and see which is closer to the slurry results
I have and done that numerous times, The first reading I've taken reads closer to the input waters ph than water that drains after the soil is saturated. The slurry test I took when I had the low soil ph issue read 5.30, early run off gave me 5.80, soil saturated run off gave me 5.35, more of an indication of actual soil ph than the early runoff water. PPM I have no idea about, yet, wife says Christmas.We'll have to agree to disagree on that but the numbers at the beginning and at the end are quite different; the last numbers more closely mirror what is poured in in my opinion and PPM in particular is often hundreds lower than the more accurate first draw from my experience
Here's an experiment: take readings of first and last runoff and then do a slurry test and see which is closer to the slurry results
Well again I've been taught to do it exactly the opposite; take the first of what comes out down near the bottom, once the soil is completely saturated, not from the last that's poured in. I'm going to keep doing it that way but thanks for the inputI have and done that numerous times, The first reading I've taken reads closer to the input waters ph than water that drains after the soil is saturated. The slurry test I took when I had the low soil ph issue read 5.30, early run off gave me 5.80, soil saturated run off gave me 5.35, more of an indication of actual soil ph than the early runoff water. PPM I have no idea about, yet, wife says Christmas.
Well again I've been taught to do it exactly the opposite; take the first of what comes out down near the bottom, once the soil is completely saturated, not from the last that's poured in. I'm going to keep doing it that way but thanks for the input
If a plant blooms for 9 or 10 weeks it might get its runoff checked twice, three times if I feel a need to monitor it, so it's hardly an obsession with me, didn't check it at all for the first year and a half or so that I was growing in soil LOL not sure why I started?
I didn't do that on a regular basis until I had the low soil ph you helped me with. Now because it's still low 5.65 moving up slowly each watering I'm testing every feed / water. I'm wondering now that its been about a month since I added the dolomite and the Cherry bomb still has low ph soil would you recommend another tbs to it?Well again I've been taught to do it exactly the opposite; take the first of what comes out down near the bottom, once the soil is completely saturated, not from the last that's poured in. I'm going to keep doing it that way but thanks for the input
If a plant blooms for 9 or 10 weeks it might get its runoff checked twice, three times if I feel a need to monitor it, so it's hardly an obsession with me, didn't check it at all for the first year and a half or so that I was growing in soil LOL not sure why I started?
I didn't check it at all once I started adding the Dolomite to the ffof, it was steady as a rock right around 6.3I didn't do that on a regular basis until I had the low soil ph you helped me with. Now because it's still low 5.65 moving up slowly each watering I'm testing every feed / water. I'm wondering now that its been about a month since I added the dolomite and the Cherry bomb still has low ph soil would you recommend another tbs to it?
Oh Work Work Work...........wasn't that a Mel Brooks scene in Blazing Saddles? Nice work, light one up for me when its ready.
Kind work ya love to hate! Looks like ya wet trim ?
Nooooo.. hate trimming!Kind work ya love to hate! Looks like ya wet trim ?
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