Quote Originally Posted by melodious fellow
I love you.



I have been so fucking upset over my grow lately, I abandoned the thread I had on here, and was thinking of tossing the grow because I just couldn't keep my damn temps down and so many other problems.

This thread is an inspiration. I too am a hempy bucket grower with temps often hitting 90!

I am definitely subscribing to this.

What do you use to lower your water ph (I have heard ph down from fish/pet stores is bad so I do not know where to find any as there is no hydro shop and I won't buy over net)

And what kind of Ph meter do you use?

My girls are about the same age.

peace
I love you too! I use general hydroponic ph-down, the dry kind not the liquid. Why won't you purchase at hydro shops online? I've purchased tons of stuff from hydrowarehouse, and greentree's hydroponics, good prices and pretty fast. I would be just as worried if not more purchasing in person than online, (your dealing with a company that sells stuff online to pot growers all day, not people eyeing you in their store to see if you grow pot or not and then have people follow you home) so i would be less worried.

I don't use an electronic pH meter, i use a liquid pH tester. It's 5 bucks, you fill a vial with water, drop a few drops of liquid, and it changes color depending on pH value. 5.0 is completely orange, 5.5 is light orange (to yellow), 6.0 is pure yellow, 6.5 yellowish green... so 5.4pH is a little darker orange than 5.5, 5.3 even darker orange than 5.4, etc... you can learn the shade differences really quickly so you can tell if its about 5.6, or 5.9, or 6.1 blah blah, even though the color chart works in .5 increments (i.e. 5.0pH, 5.5pH, 6.0pH). One liquid tester *should* last you throughout your grow, unless you check your pH every 2 seconds like I do, then you might need a couple.

I'm not dealing with the 90's temps anymore. I took them out of their "nest" (up near the ceiling, grow box lined with mylar) and just put them on a table now that i have a reflector for the 150w fluorescent. They don't have the reflectivity they had in their nest, but hopefully the batwing reflector plus the coolor temps will make up for the fact they aren't contained in a reflective box of light.




Here's a shot of the group, looking much more "dialed in" now