Quote Originally Posted by latewood
If your plants are healthy and fluorishing, well, it is hard to change something, but if you are shooting for, balancing your run-off ph; Here is an answer to your query, I believe that your idea is correct. You should raise the ph level of your mix before watering and that would equate to higher run-off/ph...Now, I hate to admit it, but I mix my pot-tea
ph it and pour it in...I never check my run-off/ph...maybe I should, but I just like the way the orchid mix based medium I blend is real ph stable...lw :smokin:

Yes sad but true I do have a ph problem! I will post pics as soon as possible,first I thought it was a magnesium problem so I feed the plants ebson salt as well increased some (n) to help restore the healthy green colour,now I didn't go heavy on the (N) feeding because I am well into my 3rd week of flowering!.......I also have been giving the plants carbo load as well as big bud nutes along with a b sensi bloom....but I have no indicators showing me a nute problem or burn! so a week ago or more I gave some plant food high in N but not to much to see if the green could be restored because the yellowing is also effecting my new growth along with the old growth?....

So I am now wondering maybe I had no N problem or magnesium problem to begin with? perhaps it was my ph balanced water @6.5? which infact probably becomes less then 6.0 the instant the water soaks into the soil? which would mean it's still a ph problem rather then anything else that I already listed?............. so what am I to do? hmm...........well like I said it's starting to effect the new growth as well and with the nutes that I am giving the plants they should be getting all they need,so my next solution to the problem is perhaps raise the ph in the water before watering the plants but the question now would be how high to go on the PH to balance the run off @ 6.5?.............I'll post pics as soon as I get some new batterys.
Mellow Man Reviewed by Mellow Man on . PH Question! Guys I grow with soil mixed with perlite about 50/50 and I always maintain the ph level @ 6.5-6.8 so I am in a good zone,but my question is why is the ph water that is coming out of the pot that I watered shoot down way below 6.0? .. I will use perfect ph balance water but the run off shoots down way below the 6.0 mark,why is this? of course it's probably because all the excess salts and unused nutes in the soil may be causeing the ph to go down so does this also mean that once the balanced Rating: 5