Thank you so much Miss Mam!
Hopefully the soil ph issue will be resolved after a couple more HAF (half assed flushes) with the 6.0, if it goes down .2 every time! This has inspired me to go ahead and get the ffof mixed with the rest of the fflw I have, add some lime, and get it tested and ready for it's eventual use. I really misunderstood soil runoff, so ideally you really want your runoff coming out @ about 6.5ish or so, that's good to know. That kinda explains some stuff that happened last time! Poor plants. Oh well they are all dead and gone now!
Aww Drainage, yes. You would be proud! Not only of the drainage for the cups that they are currently in, but of the table that they are on! I got these handy dandy plastic storage shelf things that you just put together to, store shit on, well anyway, I took 3 of them and put the legs on so they are all side by side. They have like maybe half inch slots all through the shelf thing, so instead of having my cups, and in the future pots sitting in those damn dishes, they are just sitting on top of the "make shift table that is supposed to be a 5 level shelf. I got some panda plastic and made a sweet tray that the legs are in so that when my cups/pots drain, the runoff just falls straight down and collects about 2 ft away from the bottoms of the pot/cups so they aren't sitting in any water at all! Of course extra extra holes in everything in the bottoms and up the sides! And it is so easy to just sop up the runoff and wipe it clean. I may get to play around with a scrog in the future too, the legs are hollow, and I can easily just drop in some poles that will allow me to tie a screen on. It's pretty sweet really, might not sound that cool but it is to me. I made it with my hands and it works!
Now if I could get a handle on my damn temps! That's one good thing I guess, I'm running right at 85* so in those small cups with all the excellent drainage I have, they dry out in like 2 maybe 3 days tops! Where as before.......ug. Anyway thanks again to you and everyone really, so much good info here this place is a friggin' gold mine!:thumbsup:
Eventually I will hopefully be able to post a grow log, once this is all said and done anyways. I am keeping a good journal now, and collecting all the pics, so after it's all said and done I will put it together in 1 nice shot as a tribute to you and all the other wise growers here. Hopefully it turns out well!
But really, the table is sweet!
8182KSKUSH Reviewed by 8182KSKUSH on . How does perlite effect PH? I probably have a very simple question. Here's some background info. My Amish friend has some babies in 16oz keg cups, they look great, and are still in the "seedling" stage of life. All is well, however, when watering with RO water, adjusted to 6.8, (and even down to 6.7) the ph of the runoff still comes out at roughly 7.2-7.28? The soil is foxfarm lightwarrior, and the very bottom inch or two is solid perlite. (Hoping to aide drainage although the fflw is very light and seems pretty Rating: 5