Quote Originally Posted by stinkyattic
Forget about the ones on the bottom. Get the ones off the top. Replace them with perlite if covering the soil surface is important to you. Then make sure that you aren't lowering your fert pH TOO much.
You answered the res temp question... are you running a RES in a soil grow? Are you pre-mixing your nutes?
Do you have soft tap water?
How long have the plants been in those pots?
plants those pot for about 1 week, and others in the 2 gallon pots about 4 days.

no res as of yet, i have been thinking about but i have been using gallon jugs. that i leave outside next to the tent, so its room temp maybe a little cooler..

water is very soft... ph is around 7.5-8.

im thinking the res might just be one more thing that can go wrong so i havent gone there yet.. like any mechanic says, the more moving parts, the better the chance of a failure. so i figure, tent, soil, lamp, air, and the water is the one thing i havent maintained, imagine and its broken..

after the flush i fed with half strength, pure blend gro bontanicare nute 2-1-3

not that covering the soil is important to "me" but i read it can help make use of top layer of soil.(stink is this true or not really? and i earlier went prodded through the soil about an inch barely to check moisture and there was a root i uncovered... atleast on 1 -2 plants, i dont see the need to stick my fingers in every single one, if they all look the same.

perlite it is. unless u think i dont even need it..., then i will just remove the clay balls.

now as for the health of the plant and how do they look?

i'll post more pics 2morrow to give u all an idea of the change.

Stinky,

would the hyroton balls cause the ph to spike? like i am seeing?

if i keep watering with 6.5ph water, will that be enough to bring the ph of the soil down, if the flush of 1 gallon i gave the other day didnt completely work to lower the ph..

now if i shocked them with the rapid change of ph how will this affect them.

how much longer should a rebound take should things be okay.., would basicaly one dry cycle and then one more watering be the trick?