Brown thumb grow

[Brwnthmb]

Use a pH pen like an Apera PH60 and measure the pH of your input water.

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Dont you want to have the water be in the soil for a little bit before you measure the ph?

[Bluey]

Well mine was not accurate after a few weeks.

Best measure the inputs.

If you had decent size pots you really wouldn't need to worry about it too much at all as the soil will take care of itself. That is the greatest benefit to using soil, it takes care if itself but you need a bit of it to do that. So the more the merrier

[Brwnthmb]

That pH meter is useless for growing cannabis. They are very inaccurate .

is it the inaccuracy that makes it useless for growing cannabis?
the meter seems to be fairly repeatable, for what it’s worth. The plant with a low ph continued to have a low ph when I tested it the following week. It was 6.5 last week, 6.1 this week.

[Brwnthmb]

Gingerbeard
Thanks for LST. That is cool!

[Bluey]

That pH meter is useless for growing cannabis. They are very inaccurate.

Use a pH pen like an Apera PH60 and measure the pH of your input water. If you are using rainwater you will need to add a tiny amount of salts in the form of nutes or suppliments to get an accurate reading.

That is how to best manage the pH in your medium.

Bigger pots required for big buds.

[Brwnthmb]

The flower pot size and type is experimental. The 3 gallon fabric pot is my upper limit. The brown plastic 8” pot is a pot down from a larger size, to see if the plant would grow faster in a smaller pot, and to see if the faster growth offsets the damage from transplanting.

[Gingerbeard]

https://www.growweedeasy.com/low-stress-training-lst

[Brwnthmb]

Grow 2
plant 2 (plant 1 is the upper left hand corner, numbered going clockwise) has been topped. It’s the tallest plant, and is in a 10” clay pot. The other 2 clay pots, plant 4 and 5, are 8”.

[Rwise]

I am not familiar with that unit, tell us about it.

[Brwnthmb]

1-LST? (What is it?)
2- I definitely have some space challenges. My plan was to end up with 3gallon fabric pots that equate to 2ft tall plants. This grow is under one sf1000 light, 2ft square flowering. So I may need another light, or remove some plants, or stagger my flowering and keep some plants in vegetation state, or both.
I have another grow with 6 plants under 2 sf1000 lights. I always planned to discard the weaker ones, and just kept starting seedlings experimenting until I got it right. So I have quite an array of plants.
One grow is representative of the other, so it hasn’t been necessary to show grow 2, but I think I will anyway. I’m proud of how it is coming along.
And thanks for the compliment. I have another set of 3 gallon fabric bags on order, and I hope to get them repotted up. However my first attempt was terrible. I need help there.

[Gingerbeard]

Looking like a nice recovery Brwnthmb!
Notice the differences between the plastic and clay pots versus the bags? Keep it up. You have some time and work ahead of you.
As the plants get bigger, you can use LST to keep everything at the same height, rather than the multi-tiered method that is likely to get knocked over when a big, stoned, dumbass like me knocks into it.
I'm going to make a suggestion for down the road: Don't top. Get your plants back to healthy and fill up that space. If your grow space is even four times what you are showing in your picture, that will be a very tight fit for five plants without topping. Unless you have upgraded in the last little bit, you do not have enough light to take care of much more than the table you are growing on.
What I first said, though. Looking like a nice recovery.

[Smallgrow]

Yes that’s correct.

[Brwnthmb]

@Rwise
I assume you meant ph down? with sulphur combining with water and oxygen to make sulphuric acid?

[Brwnthmb]

PH in soil while vegging should held at 6.2-6.5 in flower 6.5-6.8. I would start with correcting the PH.
Is it the same soil in all pots? IF so then why the wide range in PH?

I can’t get the picture in the right place, but this is the answer to your question ‘how are you measuring the ph?’ Or something to that effect.
Rwise

[Rwise]

What are you using to test the PH?