gaggrouper
Active Member
Hello, I am a new grower with a couple 9 day old autos.
I have half of a 5 gallon bucket of water left and every two days when I check the acidity it goes up to 6.6 from 5.8. I was using tap water and filling up a 5 gallon bucket then leaving the lid off for a day to remove any chlorine(read this somewhere) then just reusing that water over and over, but the ph keeps going up around 6.6 each time I check.
Questions:
1) Should I not store the water and just dump some store bought/low ppm water as needed and use ph down on it to reach 5.8 then water my plants?
2) Also, how often do you all calibrate your ph meter? I don't have enough solution to check it every time I water.
Thanks.
I have half of a 5 gallon bucket of water left and every two days when I check the acidity it goes up to 6.6 from 5.8. I was using tap water and filling up a 5 gallon bucket then leaving the lid off for a day to remove any chlorine(read this somewhere) then just reusing that water over and over, but the ph keeps going up around 6.6 each time I check.
Questions:
1) Should I not store the water and just dump some store bought/low ppm water as needed and use ph down on it to reach 5.8 then water my plants?
2) Also, how often do you all calibrate your ph meter? I don't have enough solution to check it every time I water.
Thanks.