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Ph and ec

Budha420
Budha420started grow question 4y ago
Checked my #1 n #2 plant runoff. Got ph 4.4 and ec 3.0 t worst. Plants seem to do ok tho🤔 any ideas what to do and how could they b ok on that high ppm and low ph
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gottagrowsometime
gottagrowsometimeanswered grow question 4y ago
How is your PH getting that low. If it's from the run-off then it's simple. That isn't a true reading. If you aren't making a mix then say add too much of one nute over another, say 100ml of 1 300ml of another well, the PH of that 300ml will effect the PH/PPM of the other reading, only real results that you can count on from run-off if is when being applied they are all mixed and after that pour to the tests. And I'd flush your sub after a few days of feeds to get the salts out and avoid nute lockout. If you read my PPM for my zkittlez hydro it was 8500 and I thought that had to be wrong, but my friends much better PPM gave 8550. And no way was I giving them that the highest was 1400 it was a thing of me not changing the run-off for over 2 weeks and roots were drinking from the plate but clearly there was nute lockout and was only taking up mostly water, I'm putting this down to some advice I got to add a higher PPM and I broke my routine of just adding my mix and too much of 2 nutes locked out my whole mix, I just caught it in time. As my plant was starting to get very light green and starting showing slight signs of 'the claw"
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ojetepelon
ojetepelonanswered grow question 4y ago
check your ph meter, probably the diode is near to die or is way off from calibration use 2 points ph 4 first then ph 7, if is well calibrated idk how they survive that healthy
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Budha420
Budha420answered grow question 4y ago
Also did flashclean yesterday if that could be the problem?
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