PH KEEPS RISING! PLEASE HELP!!!

[rapt44]

UPDATE: I woke up this morning before my pump turned on to check the ph and it was 7!!!! This means that it increased all by itself in the rezzy overnight. Also, and this is a head scratcher, the ppm's increased by almost 100 to around 820 ppm. Raising ppm and ph?! Is this hygrozyme breaking stuff down into the water, or is the bacteria/fungi growing, maybe eating some of the organics like molasses that are in there?

I've put the ph down to 5.5, and will let it drift up throughout the day. You think with it increasing as it is that if I let it drift from 5.5 to 6.5 and then put it back down once, maybe twice a day, I will be good?
Thanks again for all your help! Keep it Coming!

And Rhizome, I am currently doing a test with RO water, my organics, and the hygrozome and bacteria/fungi, to see if there is an interaction, but nothing yet.

As for the metal, these are just those little screens/aerators that you put in hoses, made to be used with water, not rusty nails or something.

As for precipitate, some, I remember in the past seeing some brown cloudiness, but most noticeably its been the wash off from the hydroton. I've cleaned my pumps filter and it doesn't seem to be getting much more in it, but yes there is stuff in there.

[rapt44]

Can root growth be causing the ph to rise?

[rapt44]

Anyone?

[Weedhound]

I don't think so.......

[rapt44]

I recently flushed and changed out the water to straight up micro grow and bloom with calmag. Only had it on for 20 min before nighttime but THE PH SEEMED TO STABILIZE. It was no longer a steady stream of .1 over out of the drainage.

What could I have been adding that caused it to do that? The hygrozyme? That or maybe the cultures.

I tested the hygrozyme in conjunction with my floralicious and compost tea alone. It did seem to raise their ph a little after first dropping it.

Also, my roots are like black, not brown(only a little of that, not like when I once had full on root rot). This dark color is normal right? Result of the floralicous which turned my res water dark?

[Weedhound]

black? got a photo? And if your ph IS still rising....Id wonder again about your metal.....something made for "water" isn't necessarily made for correct hydro ph levels.

[rapt44]

i think it has stabilized. Imagine spaghetti w watery, not chunky black sauce and the sauce poured off for the roots. I am 90% sure thats normal w organics. Have u used organicslike flloralicious before?

[Weedhound]

No i haven't. If the black stuff rinses off then I don't think you have a root problem.

[rapt44]

Well it seems to have stablilized! I changed the water and just used micro, grow, bloom, calmag, superthrive that good acid to help it digest, wet betty, and . . . hygrozyme (the last of which should clear up any dead material on the roots, like peroxide, but will allow the bacteria and fungi to stay alive).

What I have not added: floralicious, tea compost, supervit, nectarsweet (basically my organics), and dm ZONE - potassium silicate.

HOWEVER, I did tests in kitchen glasses with all the not added ones on the bottom (except zone) mixed with the hygrozyme then later cultures of bacteria and fungi. The ph first dropped, then climed about half a point. It was NOT as vigorous a ph change as what I saw in my rezzy.

SO WHAT IS HAVING THE INTERACTION? The hygrozyme and silica? The only two I haven't tested? This is weird!!!!

[Weedhound]

did you remove the metal or is that still there and still no problem?