shall i get an EC meter ?

[NoBarriers]

Your soil. Mix in some lime and stop flushing it and trying to correct the ph. The only thing you need to check is the ph of the nutes and water going in. On your other posts you mention nute lockout from your ph but how do you know this? From a reading on a cheap soil moisture meter? You need to know what you are correcting or you'll just do more harm than good and that's about all a soil ph meter is good for, giving new growers one more thing to worry about.

 

[NoBarriers]

leave what alone ?

are you saying dont bother checking any ph levels, at all ?

i dont fully understand your logic ?

Yes that's what I'm saying. PH your nutes and water going in...

 

[iNFID3L]

Your soil. Mix in some lime and stop flushing it and trying to correct the ph. The only thing you need to check is the ph of the nutes and water going in. On your other posts you mention nute lockout from your ph but how do you know this? From a reading on a cheap soil moisture meter? You need to know what you are correcting or you'll just do more harm than good and that's about all a soil ph meter is good for, giving new growers one more thing to worry about.

lol i like your post, i had ph lockout, i did a thread last week and i was told there was about 6 things possibly wrong , i looked into every one and made a choice based on a weeks readin on the net.

im happy to leave it alone, i just cant work out how much lime to actually add.

 

[NoBarriers]

I mix my soil (2 bags roots organic to 1 bale promix) in a 35 gallon trash barrel and add in 3 cups which works out to about 1 1/2 tablespoons per gallon of soil. This is how much I've been adding for the past 3 years or so, it's not broke so I don't fix it. After that I PH my nutes and water going in the plants to about 6.5 to 6.8 and I never, never, never check the soil ph or the ph of my run off and haven't flushed a plant (early or mid grow) in years. I do flush one week before harvest though. In fact I don't own a soil ph meter anymore, although I do have a water ph meter that I use every time I water and feed. I threw away the soil meter after I fucked up my first grow with it.

Any deficiencies are then taken care of by adding what nutes the plants need as the grow progresses. I expect yellowing at 4 weeks and add in light amounts of veg nutes to take care of the deficiencies. I use the fox farm line up with the 3 solubles (open seseme, beastie blooms, cha ching) and roots ecelerator and that's it.

Oh ya in case I forgot to mention it I Never check soil or run off ph.

 

[iNFID3L]

fk it , im gonna put 4 more spoons of lime in then, shit or bust.

itll have to go on top tho obviously.

 

[NoBarriers]

Put it on top and water it in then leave them alone at least until the dry out and you need to water them again...
Good luck with your grow....

 

[iNFID3L]

well, after flushing them hard today, i think ill do it asap, cos i wanna get some feed in there on weds, mb thursday now