- Thread starter
- #301
Thanks Sinsei, you guys would shit a brick, I think we should start this discussion now. I water straight up from the hose. Now in my opinion, a happy plant is a good plant, and it's obvious when the plants aren't happy. This is directly linked to pH, and metabolism of certain mobile or immobile trace elements. If there is not enough protons in the soil, the plant cannot efficiently metabolize important nutrients for daily life. Now the contrapositive is also true to some degree, there needs to be enough OH- ions for certain things too, but protons are more important in cannabis. For the record, I am the laziest grower, I do minimal amount of work to achieve best product, I do not "pH" my water, or add any pH adjusting solution. The only thing that lowers my pH is nutrients, or organic feeds (they're typically packed with humic acids,etc). Let me state - the pH of my water comes out of the hose at 8.2 (reportedly), Soil pH extremes are much more forgiving than hydroponic growing mediums.
The situation here is that if there is not enough protons in the environment (acid) , the plant will show you (the grower) by obviously signs of multiple deficiencies. I obviously haven't had this problem, as my plants look lush and green. Now those of you who think that if I do not "pH" my water, that I will magically turn out "crappier bud" and not done as good as I could have, Please Raise Your Hand. I believe the issue with pH is a healthy and happy life for the plants, if something ain't broke, dont fix it right? I am growing in a slightly more alkaline medium, and things seem to be working out great. The less money I have to put into nutrients,solutions,containers,seeds,etc. the better, my goal is for minimal input, and maximum output. The Sun does all my work, I cannot imagine paying for light, that cost alone would outweigh a lot of bud value. The bud I am growing is nearly free when it all said and done, certainly pays for it self quickly. So that is basically the situation... I want to add that the dolomite clay that is in the native soil here that I dug up serves as a pH buffer system, and after build up of nutrient feeding (the way pH is slightly lowered for some more protons), the pH may remain stable and effective for this plant life. So, we will see how this continues to effect things - knowing my pH of medium is a bit less acidic than others - do you really think it's making my product turn out less good than it can be? Or is it about the health and happiness of the plant in total? My opinion is the latter...
Today I've done some work, removed a chosen lady from the tent for Force Flower, did some slight LST on a couple of tall tops, as well as gave the Hippie OG clones some room to grow and thrive as well as LST to them. They're all happy to have the oceanic breeze today, over 100 inland, and roughly 75 here but hot in the sun.
TL 1
TL2
TL3
Cloneville
Side shot
Time to Flower
Any and all rebuttals or opinions are certainly welcome!!
Have a great Day
The situation here is that if there is not enough protons in the environment (acid) , the plant will show you (the grower) by obviously signs of multiple deficiencies. I obviously haven't had this problem, as my plants look lush and green. Now those of you who think that if I do not "pH" my water, that I will magically turn out "crappier bud" and not done as good as I could have, Please Raise Your Hand. I believe the issue with pH is a healthy and happy life for the plants, if something ain't broke, dont fix it right? I am growing in a slightly more alkaline medium, and things seem to be working out great. The less money I have to put into nutrients,solutions,containers,seeds,etc. the better, my goal is for minimal input, and maximum output. The Sun does all my work, I cannot imagine paying for light, that cost alone would outweigh a lot of bud value. The bud I am growing is nearly free when it all said and done, certainly pays for it self quickly. So that is basically the situation... I want to add that the dolomite clay that is in the native soil here that I dug up serves as a pH buffer system, and after build up of nutrient feeding (the way pH is slightly lowered for some more protons), the pH may remain stable and effective for this plant life. So, we will see how this continues to effect things - knowing my pH of medium is a bit less acidic than others - do you really think it's making my product turn out less good than it can be? Or is it about the health and happiness of the plant in total? My opinion is the latter...
Today I've done some work, removed a chosen lady from the tent for Force Flower, did some slight LST on a couple of tall tops, as well as gave the Hippie OG clones some room to grow and thrive as well as LST to them. They're all happy to have the oceanic breeze today, over 100 inland, and roughly 75 here but hot in the sun.
TL 1
TL2
TL3
Cloneville
Side shot
Time to Flower
Any and all rebuttals or opinions are certainly welcome!!
Have a great Day