Need help haha

I’m new to growing and my plant is stunted by the looks of it. I use a rootfarm ph tester to adjust my water. Pro mix HP is my medium. General Hydroponics:flora trio is my nutrients. I do not have a DTS stick as of yet.. it comes in 7 long days.

The water I use for the plants is distilled water 0 PPM , pH at roughly 5.5-6.0.
My soils pH is at a whopping 7.0 .. tomorrow I’m grabbing some soil acidifier & some peat moss I’ll eventually slap on the soil.
Anyways, I mixed some CALiMAGic with the 0PPM water so I hope the plants get some PPM in there.. I’m not using nutrients yet.. because of these spots on my babies
Although I have a 4L bottle (of the same distilled) mixed with nutrients for feeding.
I checked my runoff for the very first time and it came out as 5.0ish

I’m now realizing that the PPM is important. Including the soils Ph which I think both is causing my plants stunt.
Any tips and recommendations would be very much appreciated.

Forgot to add that she is 19 days old

Can you use your tap water? If you use distilled you gotta add calmag.
I don’t know much about that soil but I’d ph your water to 6.5. Here a good graph for ph I use it a lot.
If your soil ph is 7 and you put 6.5 ph water in, your runoff should be around 6.7-6.8.

Wait up. How have you determined you need to acidify Pro Mix? Are you aware it’s peat? I seriously doubt the pH is as high as 5 out of the bag.

@hotrodharley
I used those 3 in 1 meter: ph , light and moisture. My expectations for the soil being a 5.0 was the same but once I actually checked, it read a 7.0.
I’m not sure if this contributed to the ph but when I bought the bag it was a day after a rain day.
Picture A is from the bag
Pic B is from my pot

@weoutthere
Thanks I will do that!

That meter is worthless for checking pH. Might as well toss it in the trash. Get a digital meter and pH your nutrient solution when you water.

Skoden said:

@hotrodharley
I used those 3 in 1 meter: ph , light and moisture. My expectations for the soil being a 5.0 was the same but once I actually checked, it read a 7.0.
I’m not sure if this contributed to the ph but when I bought the bag it was a day after a rain day.
Picture A is from the bag
Pic B is from my pot

@weoutthere
Thanks I will do that!

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That meter can go right in the trash where it belongs. My wife has a 8-10 of those that she uses to measure moisture in her house plants and the pH part of the meter is completely inaccurate on every single one of them.

Wow eh. are those digital probe readers the same deal?

I use aqurium test drop kit, cheap and reliable... especially if pen/meter acts up, also its a great backup!

Skoden said:

Wow eh. are those digital probe readers the same deal?

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Most of them are garbage. The only in solid pH probe I would trust is the one from BluLab.