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Lemon juice or vinegar in a pinch but ph down from a hydro store is best.
Do you add humic acid?Hmmm, the whole reason I went organic was to avoid the hydro shop bottles and I read that you don't really need to adjust water ph with a good soil mix. I guess I can use lemon juice for now and try to figure out why my soil is not buffering properly even though I've got oyster shell flour in there.
Hey, I missed your post about cutting the FF with rice hulls. Take care with that, they will drive pH up. It's a myth that you don't need to pay attention or manage pH in organic. I've seen plenty of times where this is simply not the case, and I've done it myself once or twice. Ok.. maybe three times.
The oyster shell flour, just like dolomitic lime, will buffer pH up. Again, take care with it. Also, you can use citric acid as a pH down but it's also known to kill microbes. I myself like phosphoric acid. Vinegar is a waste of time unless you concentrate it.
Do you add humic acid?
Hey, I missed your post about cutting the FF with rice hulls. Take care with that, they will drive pH up. It's a myth that you don't need to pay attention or manage pH in organic. I've seen plenty of times where this is simply not the case, and I've done it myself once or twice. Ok.. maybe three times.
The oyster shell flour, just like dolomitic lime, will buffer pH up. Again, take care with it. Also, you can use citric acid as a pH down but it's also known to kill microbes. I myself like phosphoric acid. Vinegar is a waste of time unless you concentrate it.
Dang the seedling looks bone dry. I think you need to cook the coots mix for months not weeks.prob still way too hot for seedlings.grab some seed starter soil like seamaiden said.use this stuff in another month or so.
Your soil mix is to hot man! start seedlings in jiffy pellets, cubes or just the base part of coots soil with the oyster shell flour. No offense to the above posters but you are just gonna create headaches if you follow there advice to ph anything. Get the seedlings in a lighter mix, compost has more than enough food for them till they need to be transplanted. Don't worry about teas or anything at this point, once the cups are rooted good transplant to your final container with coots mix and start hitting them with compost/botanical teas and foliars.
Don't complicate it KISS!
At that stage they need a very light soil, neem/crab/kelp are too strong especially at full concentrations. I used a half amended cootz soil this round to transplant seeds I started in rapid rooters and even that was a little hot for the small plants, took them a couple days to get used to it
Check out this thread. Wayne always kills it. Keep it simple.
https://www.thcfarmer.com/community/threads/waaynes-organic-golden-lion-pheno-hunt.53548/
Fortunately, over time. When I've used them I found they take a long, LONG time to break down. And when you have a whole bag of them wetted down, it feels like shrimp shells.Did you notice the rice hulls adjusting the pH more up front or over time?
Fortunately, over time. When I've used them I found they take a long, LONG time to break down. And when you have a whole bag of them wetted down, it feels like shrimp shells.
I know everyone likes to be positive and helpful, but I think what you (OP) are doing wrong here, is Growing.
You're obsessive compulsive, over-thinking and under-qualified. You are unable to sort wheat from chaff and are blithering around, bouncing off of every morsel of advice you can glean from any electronic source available.
Some people just should not be growing...
Some peoples kids...
Good on ya for tryin, you will be a master grower in no time!
When I first started I watered my plant sometimes multiple times a day in miracle grow soil with miracle grow nutes. Besides, the easiest way to learn is to make a mistake and try again.
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