Good evening everyone, I had another thread and we figured out I have a cal or mag issue with one of my plants. My water going in is 6.5 and coming out around 5-5.3ish. It is oceans farm but apparently I’m missing the PH balancing part lol. I’m using jacks 321 for the last 2 weeks.
I just bought this dolomite and was going to flush and or add this. My question being should I just flush with 7.0ish water a few gallons ( I have 3 gallon pots) or should I try to just put the dolomite lime in?
My other question is how and how much do I use the dolomite?
Last question is how in the world do you PH distilled water? I have tried plain, with nutes, with PH up and down, with mychorizze you name it I cannot get accurate reading. I put 1 drop of PH up or down and it goes up 5.0PH like wtf and then I try to balance back and same thing other way.
I don’t have to use distilled water I was just going to use for my flush since I had a few jugs. Thanks in advance
I recently raised my soils ph by adding a shot glass into a quart of my water and when it mostly dissolved I added it to my next watering.
I use r/o water also and you can’t ph it, it’s neutral. Your basically starting at minimal ppm’s also.
Back to this- flushing can be done with tap to push out any unused nutes/salts that may have been building up, if you then use your r/o with lime in it last it’ll push the tap out the bottom as well.
IMHO though
@PurpNGold74 I know you know lime bud, can you add your experience?
Ive done several throught a grow, no problem. people use soil probes and bamboo steaks to support branches by pushing into the soil. Use a metal tube so you dont have to dig with a spoon to get under the topsoil. TP holder rod makes a great core drill. (Sanitized obviously). Dont know what soil your using but any good one will have buffers in the soil. You really should try and be sure you wanna add lime, tuff to un-add.
I’m using oceans farm which apparently had a ton of issues with PH just from reading on here. Im 99% sure it is accurate because my other 2 I have no issues with are spot on with my run off PH using other soils ( one happy frog and another a mix I made).
Do you mean Fox Farm Ocean Forest?
Me too, I actually stack two FF soils together.
Fox farm has buffers in it already, do the soil slurry before you add stuff. Runoff numbers will tell you alot but even the speed you pour your liquid in plays a roll in the numbers you get. Its meant to be a guide. Like feeding when the runoff dips bellow 1000ppm for example. Identify trends like at the end when the plant suddenly stops eating so much thats a good indicator the final stretch has arrived. If your gonna ammend the soil, should check it first. Just my opinion.
Seriously though. Thats what I use to get a core. Only disturbe 1 square inch of soil 2 inches down. Gotta be gentle right, thats a lady, and you intend to penetrate her dirt
Yes the fox farm oceans forest. Yea I know it is supposed to have buffers in it but this forum is littered with tons of post about them not buffering correctly (how i ended up finding about dolomite lime in f irst place was an oceans farm post). I will try to do a slurry test tomorrow if I can get the soil out, my roots are crazy though hopefully I can find a spot to get the sample from without hitting too many roots.
I was just saying when testing my runoff on my other 2 plants they measure perfect and have no issues but the one that is measuring way low has an issue. I will give the slurry a shot in morning before doing anything else.
