I do not know about the rose thing. I was under the impression roses like acidic soil so I assume they would add some sort of PH down to the nutrients. I wonder if lowering the PH of the soil could be the cause if using rose flower nutrients, since lowering the PH is going to help the plant intake more nitrogen?
I remember those days! All you could ask or speak about in the hydro store was tomatoes and veggies, so yes, that's the exact logic I used in choosing to do a training run on a tomato. It's all good!!!!
I hadn't added anything when the picture was taken, still haven't in the buckets that dropped in pH. I know you have to mix the 321 as A, Epsom and then B. here's their video..
I am confused. What have you added to the rez in the pictures?I remember those days! All you could ask or speak about in the hydro store was tomatoes and veggies, so yes, that's the exact logic I used in choosing to do a training run on a tomato. It's all good!!!!
I hadn't added anything when the picture was taken, still haven't in the buckets that dropped in pH. I know you have to mix the 321 as A, Epsom and then B. here's their video..
Roses like a ph of 6.5 so i doubt they put ph down in the fertilizer, but most rose fertilizers are higher in N than PK so thats probably why.
That original picture is of my 'tote' reserve RO water supply. It had silica and phosphoric acid. That's all.
PH dropping is usually a sign the plants are up taking nutrients out of the water faster then they are using water. But you only have Silica and PO Down. What are you using for Silica?
This stuff.
Are you putting the Potassium Silicate into the rez and bring the PH back down before doing anything else?
Exactly!
Moe you may know this better than I do. I have learned from my construction background heat pumps suck at heating the air and are much more efficient at cooling the air over heating it.
What is your current PH level. It looks to me as if the Potassium Silicate is precipitating out of the water.
It is still at 5.0 in the 5gal buckets, the picture with the stuff circled in red. It was 5.7 in the tote. Then I added the 321 at 60% strength about an hour ago and raised pH to 5.8. Just checked it and it's back down to 5.7 and the white cloud stuff has re-settled. Go figure???????
As is any electrical based heater. Natural gas FTW when heating.
I think you have a little potassium silicate precipitating out. No biggie.
Id say that sounds very likely and would explain the slight ph drop. The question is why
You are going to see some PH swings no matter how hard you try. I would assume the 5.8 to 5.7 is just the solution settling to it final number. I use auto PH'ers and they still have some swings specifically as the solution gets older which is kind of what I want because if the PH is dropping at the end of the Rez life it means the plants are eating the nutrients as I am hoping.
Well get this one. If you go to build a new house in Cali, they no longer allow a gas line to the house.As is any electrical based heater. Natural gas FTW when heating.
Directly heating the air with fire will always be the best way to go, unless you want to start talking nuclear decay
Heat pumps have their place tho. My mini split is currently producing heat, but soon will be cooling as the plants get bigger and the lights come up. Having the ability to go either way is a nice feature, even tho it is not the most efficient.
I'm coming up to speed here, but it seems like this plant is not happy and is probably severely underfed.
