Quote Originally Posted by keylime
You say you are using distilled water, that means it has no nutrients, and the ph is "neutral" which is a PH of 7. That ph needs to be give or take in the region of 5.5
I have never heard of anyone using packing peanuts as a medium, so I can't really comment on that... but I would use a proven method instead of experimenting with something like that.

keylime
Well I looked around for rapid rooters and rockwool but all the stores say they only stock them in spring so i felt like a dumbass pothead and left lol
So its either packing peanuts or marbles...
I used ph down and got it to 5.7