mokel
Well-Known Member
Heya,
i hadn't adjusted my PH the whole day as there was nothing to adjust ...
after changing my water on 11-27 to bloom nutes and adding voodoo juice, tarantula and piranha from AN (one or all of those are the cause of this, as i started to notice it after my first usage of those products in veg, but had a slight shift in ph back then ....).
After some days now, my ph rise is constantly slowing down again (the first day i had a 12 hour rise of approximately .6 ph with the new water) and now has nearly stopped as it seems. i don't know about any issues with my plant, she has healthy roots, water is smelling nice and 'earthly' at the moment. no foul or rotten odor (had an aquarium for nearly 20 years so i think i might have a slight idea about how bad water smells).
after the first days, it started to slow down to an actual rise of 0.1 from yesterday morning 5.7 to my actual 5.8 value (ph meter makes a little break at 5.9, goes down to 5.8 after some seconds and then locks the value so it might be a little bit higher but not enough for 5.9, ph pen is calibrated), 36 hours and a .1 ph rise...
she took approximately 4l of water today and an equivalent of ~15ml hesi nutes, from ec 1.65 down to 1.58 without ph fluctuations (measured every 2 hours) water temps were below 20°C/68F the whole day.
Question:
should i enforce slight adjustments, let's say 0.1 per 4 hours or even longer periods in the hydro ph range or should i just continue monitoring it for the next days and adjust it only if it gets out of the optimum range or any deficiency are showing up ?
please enlighten a new grower, as i don't have any clue how to react (despite being happy not to put 10ml acid into the res every day)
for general pictures you can take a look at my journal linked in my sig or if you need more specific information just ask
edit:
i added an additional airstone in my res tank yesterday to increase oxygen over there, but it had no impact on the overall ph value as far as i can tell.
i hadn't adjusted my PH the whole day as there was nothing to adjust ...
after changing my water on 11-27 to bloom nutes and adding voodoo juice, tarantula and piranha from AN (one or all of those are the cause of this, as i started to notice it after my first usage of those products in veg, but had a slight shift in ph back then ....).
After some days now, my ph rise is constantly slowing down again (the first day i had a 12 hour rise of approximately .6 ph with the new water) and now has nearly stopped as it seems. i don't know about any issues with my plant, she has healthy roots, water is smelling nice and 'earthly' at the moment. no foul or rotten odor (had an aquarium for nearly 20 years so i think i might have a slight idea about how bad water smells).
after the first days, it started to slow down to an actual rise of 0.1 from yesterday morning 5.7 to my actual 5.8 value (ph meter makes a little break at 5.9, goes down to 5.8 after some seconds and then locks the value so it might be a little bit higher but not enough for 5.9, ph pen is calibrated), 36 hours and a .1 ph rise...
she took approximately 4l of water today and an equivalent of ~15ml hesi nutes, from ec 1.65 down to 1.58 without ph fluctuations (measured every 2 hours) water temps were below 20°C/68F the whole day.
Question:
should i enforce slight adjustments, let's say 0.1 per 4 hours or even longer periods in the hydro ph range or should i just continue monitoring it for the next days and adjust it only if it gets out of the optimum range or any deficiency are showing up ?
please enlighten a new grower, as i don't have any clue how to react (despite being happy not to put 10ml acid into the res every day)
for general pictures you can take a look at my journal linked in my sig or if you need more specific information just ask
edit:
i added an additional airstone in my res tank yesterday to increase oxygen over there, but it had no impact on the overall ph value as far as i can tell.
