pH Question how to maintain

Padishah

Padishah

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Hello all i been having a problem maintaining my pH level im using earthjuice ph down and the problem i have is i and nutes pH it down to 5.2 ish and a couple hours later its upto 7 to 8 again im running 2 waterfarms with foxfarm nutes i tried flushing them out and adding fresh water then i nute pH couple hours later same deal any help would be greatly appreciated oh and ppm is about 700
 
bud4less$

bud4less$

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Kitty, I love cats, cant you tell. Anyways, I wish I could answer your question, but I cant. Sorry...
 
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Bubba Kushman

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I use PH bufferd nutes. Supernatural products are all Ph buffered and some Fox Farms nutes are too. I use Supernatural for veg and the FF ChaChing, Beastie and Open Seseme for flower plus sweet and bud blaster. You can also add dolimite lime to your soil it will stabilize the PH.
 
Chumlie

Chumlie

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Don't do that, ph the water then add nute the check ph again. Mix nute in real, good.
and 5.2 is way to low try 5.8 to 6.0. Its better at 5.8
 
Padishah

Padishah

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Chumlie said:
Don't do that, ph the water then add nute the check ph again. Mix nute in real, good.
and 5.2 is way to low try 5.8 to 6.0. Its better at 5.8
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what would be the difference in pHing twice when i could just do it once after the nutes and 5.2 is what is recommended in the FAQ as max nutrient absorption but the point being i cant maintain anything under about 7.5 to 8 it always rebounds


and budless for my soil plant i dont pH the water and its doing great
 
Chumlie

Chumlie

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Bud4less Im talking about hydro. Anyways you don't have to add twice, just experiment a little. When you get the ph down to 5.8 then add your nute see if it lowers are raises the ph. If it raises the ph just get the ph lower next time...not to much just enough.

Where I have read here and other sites, etc say that the nute mix in better when the ph is corrected first.
 
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