I’d keep feeding at 5.8 and not worry too much about the runoff. Just make sure you’re getting a good amount of runoff each time
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THANKS FOR THE HELP! I will update you guys in a few weeks unless i run into a problem. Thank you ALL!
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@MattyBear is correct. I grow in 7 gallon pots and I run 2-3 gallons of plain ph water through before I feed. But I feed everytime though
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@MattyBear interesting… currently in 4 gallon wrong plastic pots. New crop i have cloth 5 gallon pots. i would love to see your feed schedule and results you get.
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I’ll tag you into my threads now 
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@MattyBear OMG!!! YOUR BUDS ARE LIVE AT 5! AWESOME! Thats the type of buds i want…i checked it out! mannnnn im going to tweek my feeding schedule a little. like… i got 2 pots of the same strain… one pot is huge with buds but short… the other is taller than all my plants with little buds…i think i need to feed her more because there is never a lot of run off and ppm be low.
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@MattyBear what line of nutrients do you use?
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Currently I’m using CX horticulture’s coco line.
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It took me a while to figure this out and what the numbers were telling me. I check and annotate ppm in and out each time I water or feed. After comparing the numbers following several feed or waters I could start figuring out what my plants were doing. I gain my best knowledge looking at the ppms out after just water and comparing that to the ppms out from previous feed. You can see if your plants are eating or not by whether the ppms drop and how significantly.
For a while, my hard water was causing a calcium build up in the soil and locking out the nutes(my plants were unable to absorb the nutes) so my ppms out kept rising. I’d put in say 1000 ppm and the out reading would be 1400 them maybe 1600 the next time. This told me the plants were unable to eat and the nutrients were building up in the oil. Flushed and the changed to RO water. After that I would feed say 1000 ppms. I then annotated the ppms out. Let’s say it came out at 1100. This alone didn’t tell me too much but when I would water with low ppms the next go round and check ppms out. If they were something like 700 I knew the plant had been eating in the last few days. If it was up around 1000, it showed me it wasn’t eating.
Hope that makes some sense. Took me a minute to wrap my head around it
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@DeTHC420
https://ilgmforum.com/t/first-grow-nothing-legal-about-it/35862/76
Around post 76 I asked the same question on ppm and received some good answers
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if your plant flowers for 9 weeks, do you begin flush on the 7th week or go the full 9 weeks then flush? @AfgVet @Missiles
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Mostly they will go the full flowering time if not longer but I usually let the trichomes and the pistils guide me also. Once I see she is where I would like her
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Im on 6 weeks of flower. I want to use Koolbloom dry for 2 weeks but is it time or even safe to do it now. My ppm run off is 700 to 800 today… so can i give it the 1st feed of koolbloom dry? I feed every 2 watering. see my calendar… Im trying to plan out the last few weeks. @Missiles @HornHead @Seeddog @AfgVet
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Yeah , she’s ready
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@HornHead… quick question… now deep in flower … its been raining alot with humidity spikes of 89%… i cant control it! i cant afford a huge dehumidifier right now. my temps are almost perfect 75-79f. I dont want mold!
no bugs insight and I lysol the tent once a week.i have a small dehumidifier but my 5x5 tent ventilation system rotate so quickly it barley do anything. Do i have anything to worry about with these spikes of humidity? If so what to do to get a handle on it up front?
@Covertgrower @Seeddog @MattyBear @AfgVet the question above…thanks
The better question is if the other tent is in flower or veg? Veg you can have higher humidity and be fine.
If you do need less humidity, and no dehumidifier the best I can offer is raise the temperatures, increase airflow, and increase air exchange.
im in flower 7th week and humidity here is super high! Raise my temps?
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You could make a homemade air conditioner out of a box fan and ice. No idea what kind of results you can get out of it, but it’s worth a shot?
Unless you have an actual spare air conditioner you could use.
I’m with @Covertgrower, if you can’t afford a dehumidifier, the only thing I can see is raising the heat. Heat drys out the air