Giada

cornbreadsquirrel 35l reservoir day 1 (11.04): - gave 14ml of bio-down to lower reservoir pH by 2 full points. Guess-timating to get close to 6.0 pH (I think - using strips and I'm really bad at the color) - gave cannazym 2 days to establish self in the reservoir before adding any other nutrients, 2 days after germination day 3: - the pH meter I ordered arrived finally. Saw the slight yellowing of leaves and knew I had a pH problem but couldnt be exact before. Measurements were exact this time and it was 7.9 pH!!! HOLY COW I was so off with the color of the strips (maybe I'm color blind?) - 14ml bio down - brought pH down to 5.27 - 8ml bio up - brought pH up to 5.8 stable - perfect! 😊 day 4: 8pH again when I woke up. Changed res and sanitized everything even though it smelled fine - cannot keep pH down and don't know why. day 5: 7.41 pH when I woke up @ 9:00. giving plenty of ph down to bring it down to within the healthy range of 5.5 - 5.8, then I check 1 hour later and it's gone back up. By 15:30, I had given ph down at least 3 times to this res. I learned that with really hard water, it will 'bounce back' after a short amount of time if using a weak ph down solution. I was using BioBizz, which was simply a citric acid. That acid would bring down the hard water for a short amount of time, but it wasn't strong enough to keep the entire solution at a certain pH. I went to the grow shop down the road and grabbed a pH - solution that uses phosphoric acid. I brought the ph down to 5.4 in the evening and it held for many hours - looks promising. day 6: 5.6pH in the morning!!!! I have solved my pH issues that have plagued every single grow since I began!! added some silica now that I can manage the pH better. day 7: 6.0pH. Now it is much more stable and easy to keep in range I want

cornbreadsquirrel Day 9: beautiful roots forming :) Topped up with 4 liters of solution (it did not use this much in this amount of time. when I re-did the reservoir last week, I put 7 less liters of water in it to save my back a little haha) Gave another 20mL of CANNAZYM to the res to decrease likelihood of root rot. I can see slight browning on two roots which are in the pump stream permanently. The other roots have almost reached the solution, at that point I will turn off the pump. Day 11: Turned off starter pump Day 12 5.8pH steady 1285ec Day 14: Insane roots forming 20ml cannazym topup. slight browning on some roots - seems like start of some nastiness

cornbreadsquirrel Day 15: Res change day!! She's exploding, so time to up the nutrients. As well, I add a bunch of beneficial bacteria to stave off any root rot (voodoo juice). I didn't realize that cannazym isn't beneficial bacteria, but only enzymes