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10-04-2009, 12:25 PM #5
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Troubleshooting? or just advice?
Where did you get this soil recipe? Ditch all the crap, and stick with the potting soil.
Originally Posted by grdnofpeace
Never add lime just for the heck of it. Especially if you don't know the ph to begin with. Also, lime is used to adjust soil ph, not water. If you keep adding it, it builds-up and keeps working harder to raise your ph. (way out of range)
If adding lime, why make it fight the bone meal too? (one brings ph up, one brings it down...but at uneven levels)
Better find a way to check. Water ph is as important as any other parameter in the growroom. Avoid the soil ph probes though. I never met one that really worked. Either get an aquarium ph test kit, or a ph pen. Worth their weight in gold. :thumbsup: The aquarium kit won't let you check runoff, but I never really had a ph swing with MG soils to speak of. The most improtant thing is to check your ingoing water ph.
Originally Posted by grdnofpeace
Yup. There's a link to one technique in my signature, as DH mentioned.
Originally Posted by grdnofpeace
I'm not convinced you've got a light leak, but likely good to double-check anyway. I'm guessing you've been over-loving your ladies with soil ammendments and an unstable ph issue. With your future transplants, for heavens sake, don't ever add lime to the top of the soil. You are killing all of the surface roots with a very caustic ammendment. Also, until you know the ingoing and runoff ph, stop adding the extra's like bone meal and potash. I'd cut back on the molasses a bit, too. (in half)
Originally Posted by grdnofpeace
I didn't see on the form what you are using for nutrients. Are you using any, or are you trying to add it to the (Miracle Grow) soil at transplants?
I occationally stress a lady or two for femmed seed production. The strains I use are very stable, and revert to normal during re-veg. No gurantees of success if strain is not normally stable, but you will need to stop degrading your soil with the ammendments before you attempt a re-veg. Also, I only re-veg hermies that were light poisoned, not chemically induced. Residual chemicals (too much lime, bone meal...) in the soil tend to screw-up the re-veg process.
Originally Posted by grdnofpeace
A couple of pictures would help.
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