just got back from the shop... man im tired... installed some of the gear in the grow room, looking good so far :thumbsup:

400 Watt Grolux cooltube is running cool, pulling air in at 330m3/minute or something... very nice PK fan i'm using with 2 settings funky... and veryyy handy if i go stealth..

I also made a purchase of some PH Down solution for my soil fertiliser mix. The guy in the shop was insistant that it's not "good practice" to use phosphoric acid 81% solution for a soil ph adjustment. I dig that advice but I think he was being a bit para.. I am talking about 1ml per litre max, more like 1 per 2 litre... 1:2000 so 81% of 1ml in 2000 = factor 81%/2000 = 0.0405% phosphoric acid... hummm that seems acceptable if I'm getting a PH just under 6 or 7... Anyways thats my thoughts...

I used some CAT5E network cable to create a modest 'ghetto' rail for my HPS. It's okay I was very dilligent at making it as safe as possible, more photo's showing its safety features soon :thumbsup:

I've watered my poor plants, it's been almost 2 months and they only look a few weeks old, farking CFL weren't powerful enough/wasnt hanging them/had a bad setup! Fixed!!! Only problem i encountered was that the 5M of ducting wasn't enough, so I had to setup a temporary 'ghetto' air exchange point too. Which is actually an old LCD TFT box, works a dream, some pressure loss and some recirc but honestly 25% max... not bad for a ghetto exchange )

Anyways, anyone got any advice re my PH? I know the reason my plants are getting lockout is because I have hard water and it is messing with the PH of my soil now the buffers gone. This happened last time. I'm using allmix. Soil PH is 7.0 so, I've applied a 1:1700 solution of phosphoric acid to see if it balances the soil PH, oh god I hopeso!! don't want dead plants since that'd be a first for me...


PLEASE! any advice rocks.. cause I'm not sure what to do now :<


Peace,
Denial