Bain
Well-Known Member
So I'm doing a hempy grow, 100% perlite.
I started watering at aprox 6.0 ph, everything seemed ok until I had some very minor deficiency issues about 8 or 9 days ago. I checked the PH of my runoff and it was coming out at aprox 7-7.5. That is way too high. Since then I've been watering at very low PH, around 4-5 PH. In that time the PH has dropped about .3 - .5 and the plants look much better. Still the runoff averages 7.0 even after quite a bit of watering...
I'm curious, should I continue to water at extremely low PH until the runoff is much lower? should I just water at 5.8ish and let hempy work its magic? Would long term watering at 4-5 PH hurt the plants even if the runoff stays high PH?
I did some internet and rollitup searches for similar issues, several people had the the same issue as me but nobody really had a good answer.
Help from people with experience with hempy is much appreciated and will receive +rep!
I started watering at aprox 6.0 ph, everything seemed ok until I had some very minor deficiency issues about 8 or 9 days ago. I checked the PH of my runoff and it was coming out at aprox 7-7.5. That is way too high. Since then I've been watering at very low PH, around 4-5 PH. In that time the PH has dropped about .3 - .5 and the plants look much better. Still the runoff averages 7.0 even after quite a bit of watering...
I'm curious, should I continue to water at extremely low PH until the runoff is much lower? should I just water at 5.8ish and let hempy work its magic? Would long term watering at 4-5 PH hurt the plants even if the runoff stays high PH?
I did some internet and rollitup searches for similar issues, several people had the the same issue as me but nobody really had a good answer.
Help from people with experience with hempy is much appreciated and will receive +rep!