Just curious

Down for sure, I live at 6000 ft. our local water is some of the best in the state. The ppm out of the faucet is like 30-45 ppm. But the ph is in the 7.0 range. But my Advanced Nutrients balance it pretty well. Never used a nute that did that like theirs. I've had the same bottle of up for a year.
 
I didn't even buy ph up. Best investment I made to this point was the RO system. We have well water around 300 ppm. The ro saves me so much cleaning it would have been worth it just for that. VV
 
Don't use any as I have my own well and a filtered water system. Mogie you already knew that because I shared water from my toilet with you lol.
 
PH down, always even with advanced nutrients I live close to the water treatment plant so i filter the water and usually have to add ph down 99% of the time, never had to raise ph here though.
 
Ya know if you leave the water ( tap h2o) sitting out in a open container for a few days the chlorine and any other chemicals will evaporte. This will leave you with a more neutral ph.
 
whats this avatar picture.... taking my glory?

ad. nutes sensi grow doesnt seem to need ph mods with me...
 
Always the down. When I'm vegging i always have to ph down. When flowering the feed hits about the 5.8 mark. never higher than six, so never a need to ph up or down during flower. Unless I use that liquid silicon, it raises the ph too high.
 
morp said:
whats this avatar picture.... taking my glory?

ad. nutes sensi grow doesnt seem to need ph mods with me...
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sensi grow a and b? You must be growing in soil?

I use the a and b, but only for flower. In veg I use miracle grow, and bloom (3rd part of 3 part feeding programme). I find that the two together compliment each other perfectly.

On another grow though, i do use a and b for veg but I'm using liquid silicon as well so that raises the ph right up.
 
morp said:
i am indeed. no room or money for aeroponics. which is what i want...
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Even so, plants in soil easier take up nute's with a ph of 6.5. I'll bet that after you add your veg' feed your ph is at 7.5, could be even higher. My tap water sometimes comes out at 8, and that's just standard tap water. Mostly it comes out around 7-7.5. Soil is fine really up to a ph of 7. Plants just prefer 6.5 in soil.

I wouldn't bother with aeroponics. I've never heard of a successful grow using this method. The spray nozzles get blocked up with the salts from the nute's, and within a couple of hours your whole crop is dead. There is a way, by using high velocity, the nozzle is spinning so fast that it can't get blocked up.

If I were you, I'd try hydro first. Then move on to dwc or nft.
 
Knowm, I don't want to buy your dvd. I have to work in completely different conditions. right down to climate control.

I know aero can be done, the aerogarden is a good (if very tiny) example. I know that it can be done with the high velocity spinning nozzles too. How do you prevent the normal nozzles from blocking up? Maybe, have more than one?
 
Paulio's water was blue, wonder if that was the tidy bowl? Darn he did warn me first but I insisted on that glass of water.
 
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