loads of problems start again help.

Hi ive had quite a few problems with wrong ph issues over feeding putting extra things in etc, plants look a little messed up so im going to restart again with some new cuttings, the ones im pulling out are 2 weeks old, my question is i still want to use my same soil, shall i just flush the old soil with fresh water from the tap, i ph the tap water seemed to be around 7.5. my pots are 78 litres so will 3 litres of normal water do the trick? do i after re ph my tap water? this time ill pot my cuttings into smaller pots at first then bring them on until there bigger for the bigger pot. any help would really help thank you

iron-lungs 2015 said:

Hi ive had quite a few problems with wrong ph issues over feeding putting extra things in etc, plants look a little messed up so im going to restart again with some new cuttings, the ones im pulling out are 2 weeks old, my question is i still want to use my same soil, shall i just flush the old soil with fresh water from the tap, i ph the tap water seemed to be around 7.5. my pots are 78 litres so will 3 litres of normal water do the trick? do i after re ph my tap water? this time ill pot my cuttings into smaller pots at first then bring them on until there bigger for the bigger pot. any help would really help thank you

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How long did you use the old soil? Your better off saving yourself the trouble and using fresh new soil mate, it will help in the long run. As far as the ph issues, are you letting the tap water sit out for at least 24 hours? The ph might be fluctuating because of the minerals in the tap water (chlorine) or any other cleaning chemicals, leaving it out for a day should help it evaporate, then try to ph the water. I usually ph my water from anywhere between 5.8-6.2 those numbers are pretty good for me. If you are going to reuse the soil flushing it with tap water should be fine but the last gallon of water or so should be ph'd so that the acidity in the soil isnt off, id flush the soil until i didnt see any discoloration, the water should be clear coming out and if you have a ppm meter measure the ppm's of the soil water thats coming from the soil. Another thing, always ph after you add your nutrients, the nutrients can raise or lower the ph depending on how strong so always ph after adding nutrients to your water and adjust accordingly.

It would be moronic to use the same soil.

i used the soil in total for 2 years, yes i no its sounds alot but trust me every time it just got better i mean the yields, basically after 2 weeks my roots are down then my autopots feed from the bottom, i see the soil just as a support for the plant, maybe this time its a little over used lol. its very hard to get soil in and out of this place and we aint talking 1 plant.

iron-lungs 2015 said:

i used the soil in total for 2 years, yes i no its sounds alot but trust me every time it just got better i mean the yields, basically after 2 weeks my roots are down then my autopots feed from the bottom, i see the soil just as a support for the plant, maybe this time its a little over used lol. its very hard to get soil in and out of this place and we aint talking 1 plant.

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Understandable, before i went to hydro i used to use promix, i could fill up about 10-15 5 gallon pots with 1 bag. there pretty big. If you cant move soil around that much id flush it extremely well. i mean it shouldnt hurt to bad, in nature theres all kinds of plants blooming in dirt thats been used for ages.