Happy Jack
New Member
Hello Fellow Growers,
I'm a DWC newb, with healthy month-old plants in totes. I've been using my 250PPM well water with the GH Flora trio, hard water micro formula. The water level in the totes is high for initial root growth (12 gallons/tote), and pH initially tested somewhere between 7 and 8 (hard to judge the test color exactly). After almost 8 oz of GH pH Down, pH has only dropped slightly, to around 7. I have a gallon of pH Down on order, but am not sure if that will work, or if there is a better solution (pun intended) .
I'd like your advice on what to do. I'd rather not spring for a RO system if it won't make a big difference, but I will if it will. What do you think? Should I go ahead and buy the filter, or can you suggest an easier/cheaper way to deal with pH--including living with it as it is--while still having excellent yields?
For example, if I could have 90% of the yield with an economical non RO solution--including living with the high pH--I'd go for that. But I don't want to sabotage the hard work and money I've already put into my DWC system.
Thanks in advance, your guidance is greatly appreciated.
I'm a DWC newb, with healthy month-old plants in totes. I've been using my 250PPM well water with the GH Flora trio, hard water micro formula. The water level in the totes is high for initial root growth (12 gallons/tote), and pH initially tested somewhere between 7 and 8 (hard to judge the test color exactly). After almost 8 oz of GH pH Down, pH has only dropped slightly, to around 7. I have a gallon of pH Down on order, but am not sure if that will work, or if there is a better solution (pun intended) .
I'd like your advice on what to do. I'd rather not spring for a RO system if it won't make a big difference, but I will if it will. What do you think? Should I go ahead and buy the filter, or can you suggest an easier/cheaper way to deal with pH--including living with it as it is--while still having excellent yields?
For example, if I could have 90% of the yield with an economical non RO solution--including living with the high pH--I'd go for that. But I don't want to sabotage the hard work and money I've already put into my DWC system.
Thanks in advance, your guidance is greatly appreciated.