why is this soil plant droopy

[texas grass]

ive already got the GH ph up and down

let me make sure i am understanding correctly. adjust my ph down til my runoff is about 6.5.

but is it better to keep the water phed low or try to correct in soil too, reguardless im goin to have to ph water down every time

texas grass Reviewed by texas grass on 09-24-2007. why is this soil plant droopy using a soil mix organic blend with peat(1cu), and perlite(small bag) all plants are fed the same with a GH3 @ 1/4 stregnth everyother feed after leaves started to yellow(water, feed, water, feed)every 3rd day the sl has always been droopy and the 2 sk have not a week just got a cheap soil ph meter and ph was about 7.5 3 days ago i bought a iron + soil acidifier(directions say use 2/3 cup to large bush to correct from a ph of 8 to 6.5) Rating: 5

[whatsthatsmell]

Ive already got the GH ph up and down

let me make sure i am understanding correctly. adjust my ph down til my runoff is about 6.5.

but is it better to keep the water phed low or try to correct in soil too, reguardless im goin to have to ph water down every time

You will have to adjust your tap water BEFORE you flush the soil, and everytime you water/flush you will have to adjust your pH since your tap water is so high. So your going to be testing the tap water before you adjust each time, and then test the soil run-off water when you do the flush, so the min testing you will be doing is 2 per plant.

If your thinking of creating some water that can be used anytime, kinda like a reserve in hydro, your gonna need to keep that water from getting any light, put an air stone in the water connected to an air pump to keep the water fresh (this will be when you have nutes in the water). If you dont have nutes in the water you dont need the airstone and such since the water will be going into soil and the roots already have air.

The good side of this is that with soil your only looking at having to do this every 3-4 days depending on how well your soil drains. Flushing schedule i have decided to do once a week, others do it once every couple, but i want to keep the soil clean and only nutes in there. I am sure i am loosing some nutes with the flush, but i am running around 1500ppm in both my DWC hydro and soil plants, so they always have the nutes in each.

I think with the pH down of the tap water you wont need the other crap that you put on the top of the water, especially if your doing a regular schedule flush. just my opinion and others may thing different, but if i can control the pH of the water going in, and my soil is as consistant as possible, no time release crap nutes or other stuff added, then i know where my pH is in the soil at all times and it makes the grow ALOT easier.

[texas grass]

well everything has been flushed very good and everything is starting to look like a healthier green:thumbsup:

since the soil and everything has been flushed good, how long before i should start to give nutes?

anything anyone else sees?

and again thanks for all the help and
ganjaguerilla for the ph video it was very informative:thumbsup:

[whatsthatsmell]

Depending on the age of the plants will dictate the strength of the nutes that you will give them, along with where in the nute cycle or feeding cycle you are in. By the looks of them you can start giving them a diluted nute solution. You can start out at 25% strength and then work your way up. Your plants will react to the nutes so you will want to keep an eye on them. They will tell you when its too much or not enough. I personally use the Biotonicare nutes but each person has thier preferences to the which to use. The other thing that i do is as those bottom leaf tips die i cut the brown material off so the plant doesnt put any energy into them. There are people who will just pull it off so they know that it is dead and not taking any living material. I prefer the cutting of the tips with scissors so that its an even and sterile cut. This is more of a personal choice than a necessity, imo.

Glad to see things turning around for ya and always happy to help...