Recent content by ontheline

The thought of adding acid didn't make sense to me and that's why I asked esp. after reading several articles recommending it's use. Turns out I didn't understand ph at all until the good people here offered their advice and guidance and I'm still a work in progress.

This was me in a nutshell on my 1st grow. FF soil and their 3 nutes with ro/di water and a cheap ph meter.

A reef keeper as well, so you have some understanding of my fixation or test readings not to mention that's an expensive time consuming hobby and you might hate to hear how I got out. I had a 90 gal. up and running for about 7 yrs. mostly acro's some monti's and 1 5-6" blue elflo which was my...

I did abandon my ph soil thinking after reading your comments along with HH's and SW's yesterday. As for the nutes, you are correct if I understand what you're advising. I began watering on 4-1 with ro water adjusted to 6.5 using baking soda until 4-14 I started using 5.5 ph ro water with...

I can pretty much tell you how I got to 6.2-6.3 thinking and it came mostly from reading a lot of post on this forum once I found it. Prior to that I read articles that like you said gave a variety ph ranges and usually stated 6.5 seems to be the ideal and I thought work towards 6.5-6.8 but try...

Hey Emilya, My thinking has been if I want to grow in 6.2-6.3ph range I reasoned why wouldn't it be easier to start with both soil and water where I want the ph to be rather than lowering the ph as I go and it just kind of made sense to me. As for the nutes, I have already been thinking of...

Thanks and in my short time here everyone has been helpful and I've learned much just reading and to date my belief is the only smoke being blown in my direction is during exhale.

Thank you, and just to clarify when you recommend no nutes does that include no cal and mag in ro/di water?

Good morning everybody, I'm thinking I want to, it's time to, transplant into 3 gal. pots using FF Ocean Floor that is reading 6.8 ph. and I want to grow in 6.2-6.3 soil. I have 6 autos going, all planted on 4-1 in organic jungle growth from Lowes with 6.8 ph and all currently have 2 sets of...

Hi Emilya, thanks for the response and guidance. I do tend to be more cautious in the beginning of something new and with me not finding hardly any info other than general lighting and water for seedlings info I decided to err on the side of caution. After your recommendation of the General...

I thought I'd update the splitting of the 1seed 2 plants dilemma y'all helped me with along with another question. The photos are the 2 I split, the 2nd an undisturbed auto. I cut the tap root on 4-6 and replanted both. I used a smaller pot for the smaller of the 2 for a self reminder to be...

I am certainly appreciative of your time and guidance. I did my 1st grow completely from reading and not asking though I didn't find any forums like this one and I should have looked harder in hind sight. I was in the saltwater reef tank hobby for about 10 yrs. and learned far more...