Perfect Sun LED
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You can check my second grow journal if you need more background.
I am su frustrated. I can't figure this crap out.
So, first, the plant was in a bottom feeding pot from Walmart. My stupid ass didn't pre-think the outcome of the bottom shape leaving room for pure water and holes for roots to grow down into, so algea grew. I am pretty sure this is what started the rising ph issue.
So, I cleaned everything, roots, container with peroxide and water 1tsp per gallon. 3% store kind. Then I filled a 5 gallon bucket up. Check picks really quick to see the pot it used to be in, and I sat that pot in the orange bucket.
They are in a 100% perlite. The roots hanging down are now in dwc with four air stones.
I filled the res with only 230 ppm (these are autos), vf-11, 29% peroxide 2mL per gallon (4 gallons of water in the 5 gallon bucket), recommended hygrozime (I think 10mL per gallon), oh, and a teaspoon of baking soda, so hopefully help stablise the ph longer. Oh, and drip clean.
Ph was 5.5 when I put the plant in, ppms 230. 2-3 hours later, ppms 330, ph 6.5
There is no more algea that is visible or that you can feel. No sliminess to the roots at all. WTH would be causing both PPMs and PH to rise? This means the plant is not taking up nutes, but you would think it would take some up even at 6.5, and while it was 5.5 and rising to 6.5
For now, I am going to ph it again to 5.5, then run all that 4 gallons through the perlite to clean the roots in that medium, to which it will empty in another bucket. I will then run it through again. I will then check the ppm and ph after running it through to see how much nutes it picks up in the perlite. I will keep doing that until the ppms and ph are the same after running through medium.
Then I will once again make a new res, this time with less peroxide, less hygrozyme, just a bit of GH at 1,2,3 parts, drip clean, and this time no baking soda. I will then Ph it if it drops before I go to bed, then check when I wake up and check both ppms and ph.
I am also going to see if I have the answer to why ppms and ph would rise so quickly in my Cervantes books.
I am su frustrated. I can't figure this crap out.
So, first, the plant was in a bottom feeding pot from Walmart. My stupid ass didn't pre-think the outcome of the bottom shape leaving room for pure water and holes for roots to grow down into, so algea grew. I am pretty sure this is what started the rising ph issue.
So, I cleaned everything, roots, container with peroxide and water 1tsp per gallon. 3% store kind. Then I filled a 5 gallon bucket up. Check picks really quick to see the pot it used to be in, and I sat that pot in the orange bucket.
They are in a 100% perlite. The roots hanging down are now in dwc with four air stones.
I filled the res with only 230 ppm (these are autos), vf-11, 29% peroxide 2mL per gallon (4 gallons of water in the 5 gallon bucket), recommended hygrozime (I think 10mL per gallon), oh, and a teaspoon of baking soda, so hopefully help stablise the ph longer. Oh, and drip clean.
Ph was 5.5 when I put the plant in, ppms 230. 2-3 hours later, ppms 330, ph 6.5
There is no more algea that is visible or that you can feel. No sliminess to the roots at all. WTH would be causing both PPMs and PH to rise? This means the plant is not taking up nutes, but you would think it would take some up even at 6.5, and while it was 5.5 and rising to 6.5
For now, I am going to ph it again to 5.5, then run all that 4 gallons through the perlite to clean the roots in that medium, to which it will empty in another bucket. I will then run it through again. I will then check the ppm and ph after running it through to see how much nutes it picks up in the perlite. I will keep doing that until the ppms and ph are the same after running through medium.
Then I will once again make a new res, this time with less peroxide, less hygrozyme, just a bit of GH at 1,2,3 parts, drip clean, and this time no baking soda. I will then Ph it if it drops before I go to bed, then check when I wake up and check both ppms and ph.
I am also going to see if I have the answer to why ppms and ph would rise so quickly in my Cervantes books.