haha the local Wal Mart here had 13 watt CFLs, not sure if they were 1700 or 1800 lumens but it was a knock out deal, so I bought a few. The ph deal, I've always used tap water I let sit out over night and the ph was around 7, you know how finicky the aquarium kits are, and watered the plants until a small amount of water began to drip out of the drainage holes. ONLY recently, for about two waterings, have I tried to raise ph by adding baking soda to some water. I only added a tad which raised the ph to around 8 or 9, which was good because the runoff from the plants prior was really, really low. That helped them bush up and spurt into action, but a few days later the yellow began to appear. Now, since that was only towards the end of last week, I've switched to plain tap water with a ph of 7 while I figure out what the heck to do. Thanks for your knowledge! It won't be wasted haha. I'll try my best to make it to the shop sometime soon and get some ph up and down and a better kit to read the levels correctly. It's a REAL small grow area, here I took some pics from afar so you can get a better image of the whole operation.


headshake - appreciate the constant comments, you've replied to all of my posts




The yellowing in the pictures has looked the same since early Saturday morning, today being late Monday night (time of pictures below).