Just curious
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CannaBoss
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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.
VictorVIcious
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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
castewalpha
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If I am just using water i use ph down, but if I am using my fox farm nutes in my water I use a ton of ph up.
UserFriendly
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Ph Down Ftw!
midgradeindasouth
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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.
skunkushybrid
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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.
skunkushybrid
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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.
green_nobody
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tonnes of ph down, my tab as a ph of 7.7 right now which is really go compared to the 8.4 i measured in the first weeks of January this year
morp
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i am indeed. no room or money for aeroponics. which is what i want...
Garden Knowm
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skunkushybrid
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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.
Garden Knowm
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skunkushybrid
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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?
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?
morp
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i was chattin with the guy in my head shop the other day about aero and he was going on about some sort of new little nozzles with some sort of nifty maggigery which dont tend to clog up. i forget the name but of them and left my brochure in another town. alas!
i also quite like the look of the auto-pot systems, anyone used them? AutoPot Easy2Grow Kit / Autopot / Pot culture / AquaCulture Hydroponics
i also quite like the look of the auto-pot systems, anyone used them? AutoPot Easy2Grow Kit / Autopot / Pot culture / AquaCulture Hydroponics