Can Someone please help

Thanks bro

Oh ok. So if it increasing on the run off I'll use that oh down right? I never use that stuff before

Oh ok appreciate it. Yea I usually let tap water stay out for 3 to 4 days and that's what I usually use; if I go low for some reason I'll use distilled water

eazy147 said:

Oh ok yea the ph tester with drops does kinda suck. Will most def switch to digital. I think temps r a lil colder than 68 degrees when lights off so WaT should I do to keep it warmer? so I never did adjust ph levels before? So if it's kinda low, do I just use ph up when I water to get it where it needs to be? Thanks again in advance!!

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Maybe an electric heater? I'd get the ph pen, some ph up, ph down, and ph 7.0. Use the ph 7.0 for calibrating the pen. If the ph of your nute mixture is low, add ph up until you get to the correct ph for your fox farms soil [I use promixHP and the correct range is 6.5-6.8]. If your tap water is high, add ph down until you get to your correct ph.

Flagg420 said:

I just keep a bottle of blue lab calibration solution handy, i recalibrate once a week, whether i think it needs it or not. Ph and PPM meters.

Remember to measure the water going in AND the run off.... if its going in @ 6.0 but runnin out at 8.2... may need to adjust accordingly...... or flush the shit out of it...

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I've grown for years without checking the ph of my runoff. I'm not saying that you can't gain information by testing it, but it hasn't been necessary in my experience (promixHP, fox farms nutes)

SATIVAZOID ROBOT said:

Straight up calcium deficency in my opinion.. Cal/mag should fix that quick.. And if you growing organic LOSE the ph pen.. you will be chasing your tail...let the microbes do there magic. never used the big bloom or tiger bloom so i can't comment on how organic it is...

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Fox farm soil and fox farm nutes...not organic. absolutely keep the ph pen...and use it.

howsitgrowin420 said:

Maybe an electric heater? I'd get the ph pen, some ph up, ph down, and ph 7.0. Use the ph 7.0 for calibrating the pen. If the ph of your nute mixture is low, add ph up until you get to the correct ph for your fox farms soil [I use promixHP and the correct range is 6.5-6.8]. If your tap water is high, add ph down until you get to your correct ph.



I've grown for years without checking the ph of my runoff. I'm not saying that you can't gain information by testing it, but it hasn't been necessary in my experience (promixHP, fox farms nutes)


Fox farm soil and fox farm nutes...not organic. absolutely keep the ph pen...and use it.

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Oh ok thanks you guys.. only think I'm confused about is , what is calibrating the ph pen? What u do when u do that?

eazy147 said:

Oh ok thanks you guys.. only think I'm confused about is , what is calibrating the ph pen? What u do when u do that?

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the pen will come with instructions on how to calibrate it and what it means.

howsitgrowin420 said:

the pen will come with instructions on how to calibrate it and what it means.

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Oh Ok

A decent quality Ph meter often wants you to have both a Ph 7, and a Ph 4 solution to calibrate, just a heads up b4 u go shoppin n end up with half the gear, hehe. (Cal to 7, then move it to the 4, tweak that tiny bit, its an accuracy thing) ((as stated above by howsit, any new Ph pen will come with in the instructions, but rarely with the solutions)

Flagg420 said:

A decent quality Ph meter often wants you to have both a Ph 7, and a Ph 4 solution to calibrate, just a heads up b4 u go shoppin n end up with half the gear, hehe. (Cal to 7, then move it to the 4, tweak that tiny bit, its an accuracy thing) ((as stated above by howsit, any new Ph pen will come with in the instructions, but rarely with the solutions)

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OOh ok I'm getting it a little ima ask the guy at the grow store how to mess w the ph pen . You guys have been a lot of help.. I wish I could pass y'all some buds when they done lol..

I had a BlueLabs pen that called for a two point calibration (ph4 and ph7). That pen was $110 and fried out on me within a year. My Milwaukee was about $35. It just calls for a 7.0 calibration, but it seems pretty accurate and it has lasted longer than a year so far. A good pen will be fairly expensive though, the Milwaukee was purchased in a pinch and just happened to work out.

The cheaper the pen, the more often you wanna double check its accuracy with calibration solution, but other than that, yea, I'm rocking a cheapy meter too.

its the chroful been pulled out of the leaves during the latter part of flowering nothing to worrie about

howsitgrowin420 said:

I had a BlueLabs pen that called for a two point calibration (ph4 and ph7). That pen was $110 and fried out on me within a year. My Milwaukee was about $35. It just calls for a 7.0 calibration, but it seems pretty accurate and it has lasted longer than a year so far. A good pen will be fairly expensive though, the Milwaukee was purchased in a pinch and just happened to work out.

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Yeah I hear a lot good things about those Milwaukee s

Flagg420 said:

The cheaper the pen, the more often you wanna double check its accuracy with calibration solution, but other than that, yea, I'm rocking a cheapy meter too.

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