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03-20 - Week 14
03-20 18:00 Water 1 gal 6.5 pH water at week 10 levels + 4 ml CalMag instead of 1 ml
03-21 18:00 Left alone, still getting browns spots... check pH meter and runoff
03-22 18:00 Left alone
03-23 18:00 Water 1 gal 6.35 pH water at week 10 levels + 5 ml CalMag instead of 1 ml, runoff at 1800(!) b/c I've been reading the meter wrong, so need to flush next watering
03-24 18:00 Left alone, further yellowing, gonna have to flush
03-25 18:00 Recalibrated pH meter with 3-point calibration, suspect it was measuring HIGHER. Confirmed against liquid test kit. Flushed with 10-12 gal of pure RO water to lower runoff to 300 ppm (pH meter WAS reading 7.3, was 6.7 - 6.8 post calibration). Then reestablished a clean 1 gal 6.4 pH water at week 10 levels with 2.5ml Calmag instead of 1ml. Runoff at 400 ppm post feed
03-26 18:00 Left alone
Thanks! First grow so trying to figure everything out as I go. Definitely learned:
1. I really shouldn't trust the soil to be properly pH balanced ahead of time... Gonna have to mix some dolomite in next time, and properly slurry test everything.
2. I really shouldn't mess with it so much. I think half the things I scrambled to "correct" were probably fine and I just freaked out (see: flushing in the early stages of the veg as I thought I had a nutrient issue and probably didn't).
3. Overwatering seedlings is easy to do even when you think you're being careful...