Overwatering with ph fluctuating

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Cookiezealous

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I had to leave out of town for a funeral, I set up an automatic drip system in my living soil containers. The water out here comes out of the tap at 8.5
It’s awful
I never had to pH my water until I moved out here
Anyway, the automatic timer overwatered the hell out of the plants, so they were saturated for four days
The pH in the reservoir when I got back was back to 8.5.
They are very unhappy to say the least, they look really sad
Droopy and slightly yellow with deep ridges.
I foliar sprayed with pure protein dry just to give them a little something to help them bounce back
when they dry out a bit I will be able to water them again, but in everyone’s experience how long does it take for them to bounce back?
Photos are the worst of the worst
 

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calvin.m16

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RO system or start adding an acid Citric Acid or for stronger effect use Phosphoric acid. Feed at 6.5 or whatever your goal is until things balance out. I would recommend RO cause in living soil as long as you have a good amount of minerals, magnesium and sulfur, then you won't need to worry about a thing. RO is pH neutral as pure h2o is neutral @ 7 pH but once it makes contact in the rootzone and other chemicals/minerals it will assimilate with what's there.

Do slurry tests to check your actual rootzone pH and adjust accordingly, in coco I will sometimes say have a 7 pH runoff with RO and need a 6.0 so I will feed a 5.5 pH feed to get the rootzone to 6.0 within 24 hours.

Lots of well water especially is high in silicates which raise the pH. My area is mostly clay and our water is around 7.9 pH straight from the earth. I can use my well water for pH UP if I run out. :eyesmoke:
 
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calvin.m16 said:
RO system or start adding an acid Citric Acid or for stronger effect use Phosphoric acid. Feed at 6.5 or whatever your goal is until things balance out. I would recommend RO cause in living soil as long as you have a good amount of minerals, magnesium and sulfur, then you won't need to worry about a thing. RO is pH neutral as pure h2o is neutral @ 7 pH but once it makes contact in the rootzone and other chemicals/minerals it will assimilate with what's there.

Do slurry tests to check your actual rootzone pH and adjust accordingly, in coco I will sometimes say have a 7 pH runoff with RO and need a 6.0 so I will feed a 5.5 pH feed to get the rootzone to 6.0 within 24 hours.

Lots of well water especially is high in silicates which raise the pH. My area is mostly clay and our water is around 7.9 pH straight from the earth. I can use my well water for pH UP if I run out. :eyesmoke:
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OK, I can definitely try the RO. A little nervous but if you say it works, I’ll give it a go.
I’ve just been using PH down which I don’t even like to say because everyone usually flips out, and then adding microbes at a little bit higher of a rate then you would normally do. I don’t even know if that’s the way it works but in my head I played out perfectly lol.
 
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calvin.m16

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Cookiezealous said:
OK, I can definitely try the RO. A little nervous but if you say it works, I’ll give it a go.
I’ve just been using PH down which I don’t even like to say because everyone usually flips out, and then adding microbes at a little bit higher of a rate then you would normally do. I don’t even know if that’s the way it works but in my head I played out perfectly lol.
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Living soil if made properly should have plenty of minerals for the RO water. You shouldn't have to screw with it either. I used to grow in M3 Mix from mIchigan with straight RO and never had issues. Just needed to use huge pots to carry plants for 16 weeks. (8 weeks veg, 8 weeks flower).
 
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Those pots should of been fine with 1 good watering before you left. You probably killed a lot of roots, so about a week for to recover or so. Add a week on to your planed veg period. But you say photos are the worst so I doubt you 100%
 
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ProPheT 216 said:
Those pots should of been fine with 1 good watering before you left. You probably killed a lot of roots, so about a week for to recover or so. Add a week on to your planed veg period. But you say photos are the worst so I doubt you 100%
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they are the worst. The rest of them look a little under the weather, but not the worst. It’s hard to solve the problem if you’re not upfront about what the problem is lol.
I’ve definitely had some amazing grows
I’ve had a lot of bad ones as well
But I learn so I’m happy
The weirdest looking plant is a re veg
It was a Landrace and I flowered the mother and the baby to see what she would be like and as soon as I realized she was pretty good. I wanted to save it so I threw her back in here. that’s all of them and a shot of my breeding tent. I flower them and pollinate everything in my baby tent, so that I can keep the big tent for fun times lol the last photo is that Landrace in flower
 

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calvin.m16 said:
Living soil if made properly should have plenty of minerals for the RO water. You shouldn't have to screw with it either. I used to grow in M3 Mix from mIchigan with straight RO and never had issues. Just needed to use huge pots to carry plants for 16 weeks. (8 weeks veg, 8 weeks flower).
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thank you
Appreciate your help
 
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