Quote Originally Posted by latewood
mellow... refresh my memory...what week are you in? what are you growing in? are these KK's beans? lw
I am almost 4 weeks into flowering,I am using shultz potting mix perlite 50/50. 1 gallon pots lots of aeratation temps in grow room reach 82degree's at most when lights are on! temps drop to about 74d 72d when lights go out,flowering with 2 1000w hortilux hps bulbs.........Nute program!...first week bud blood -sensi A sensi B......,also carbo load,voodoo juice,big bud..all light feeding schedule first time advance nute user didn't want to over do it!

The plants in question are not kk's beans the 5 strains I got from kk are now vegging! from seed for the last week or so!.

The plants that have dipped towards the down side are strains continued from clones I cut,fruit punch,Blueberry,Ultra black cambodian,,,,,

I allowed 6 weeks of vegging before flower cycle and since the flowering cycle they have taken a downward spiral!

it's producing bud at a good rate better then any of my previouse grows but seems to be yellow in the fan leaves as well as new growth! .................What caused me to even come to deep thinking in the PH level was because for weeks into the flowering stage I never checked the run off from the plants but always introduced clean balanced ph of 6.5 water even when I added my nute program,i would first balance the ph,add nutes then balance again .....so anyhow after three weeks or more of 6.5 ph water given to the plants I thought everything was going great then the yellow started showing,I then flushed with ph 6.5 balanced water thinking might be nute problem but wasn't,continued with nutes once again,with 6.5.still yellowing getting worse! during this time,I added epson salt 1 spoon full per gallon of water balanced ph 6.5 still yellowing mg problem can't be I even gave the plants last week a shot of peters 20-20-20 to increase the N and see if my plant could start going green again,nope
So today I said what the hell could be the problem ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

So out of curiousity I said just for fun I will check to see what the 6.5 ph would read from the run off of water after I run the water through the soil,wow it read less then 6.0 ,I even questioned it and tryed it again still less then 6.0 ph in the run off? so I tryed a ph of 7.2 checked the run off it was 6.0 6.1,so just for the hell of it I took one plant to exsperiement on and used a ph of 8.0 and then check the run off it was 6.5 6.6?????? I knew clearly that 8.0 ph is not good for my plants lol but I tryed anyhow and now the run off is @ 6.5 6.6? and the thing is I don't have to wait aong time for the 6.5 to drop to a 6.0 or less it happens imedetly which means the soil is proably 6.0 or less.......................so maybe this 8.0 won't hurt the plants if it's turned into 6.5 in the matter of seconds?...............either way this got me down a bit man this was the best grow for me by far but may end up being my worse grow if I don't get a handle on the problem now?.........by the way thanks late wood and others for helping me out....much appreciated!
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