CC's Verbal Diarrhea and Place To Ponder

A full log didn't quite work for me and I kinda resented trying to keep it as well as other logs. But towards the end it just kinda died off. Well that Grow is over and done with http://boards.cannabis.com/closet-ca...-afghanis.html , so I now need a new place to come and make comments on my grow to myself to go back and compare as I use my dead thread now.
If you happen to stumble into this room feel free to poke and prode, but unless you ask I probably won't post unless I have notes to make. I've also miss placed my camera so pics are lacking at the moment. I'm not always the most organized but I'll try to keep things strait.

So I Flushed my plants as they enered flower and it took a hell of a time to bring the pH back up. I've been a little lax with my run off testing since I've been following my last grow's schedual, but this grow is different. So I watered transplanted the plants and used water to compact the new soil, then I fed and let drain. Then I remembered that I didn't pH it. I tested it and it was about 5 so I brought it up and started to flush out the first feed with R/O pH'd water. So while I was flushing that one I started the next plant, I then fed it with the pH'd feed and decided to take a sample to compare the other one to. Except it came to a pH of 5 again. So I thought maybe these were the last two plants that I was a little hasty with towards the end of the flush.
So this time I'm thinking. I test the soil quick, and while that settles I brought up a plant but before I transplanted I flushed it to get an acurate run off. It came to 6.7 :wtf: I check the soil and it appears to be 6.5 :wtf:
So now I compact another pot in preparation for the plant I just flushed, as I'm doing that I take a sample, and it's like 4.7! So I don't know what happened to my soil test but I now know what's wrong and how to fix it.
People have been saying Peat has a low pH but I've never checked right after transplanting being a noob and alsways rushed, buy the time I checked after using R/O water then it had been flushed a few times I guess, and then I thought it was over fertilization. It's amazing how much you learn. SO now that I know I had pH problems my whole last grow it makes sense that my next yeild should be bigger since they are the exact same clones. So I'm excited.

So this is why I started this thread, lol.

Now I have those two first plants to flush, the drywall to putty...I probably won't be back for a few days, because K is going with Oma tomorrow so we can work and sanding done around the house.

Now I really have to go.

To fix my pH problem I mixed baking soda in the soil and then flushed the new soil, tested it, and transplanted once the pH was in the right range. I guess the baking soda didn't fully dissolve. So this week, week 2 of flower I plan my second watering with feed. First I flushed to test pH, and it was over 8! So here I go flushing again, and again, and again, urg! So now my plants pH is much better and still at the higher range of 7 but there are only so many hours of light and I don't want to drown them. I figure Next watering I'll flush again first with some water at like 5.5 pH and see what comes out. The plants are doing really good though, the leaves show a few slight signs of a little stress but not much. At the end of week one of flower they had itty bitty buds. These plants went into flower the same size as the first batch and it's week 3 of flower and they are already as big as the last plants at harvest time, now that I've fixed the pH I'm amazed.

Thanks for the visit.