qpwoeiruty
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Has anyone used ericaceous soil mixed with regular multipurpose to grow in?
I am unhappy with my bud at the moment, the calyxes seem small and underdeveloped in most of the strains I have been growing recently. I have an entire plant that I have cured which I now consider "trim" to make hash with. I am confident about my nutes (75g fish blood bone in 25l of soil mix), my lighting (mars hydro SP3000) and my strains are from reputable breeders. I have been doing nothing to drop the pH though and I believe that normal multipurpose compost is at like 7.5 or 8, my tap water is at 7.9 and apparently I want to be at 6.5 for soil. I had a quick search on here but can't find anyone talking about mixing erricaceous soil (5.0-6.0) with my 7.5 multipurpose soil to make something closer to 6.5. I've bought "pH down" and a water pH tester to make sure I keep the pH down in the water.
So, has anyone tried using ericaceous? Any other advice? Can too high a pH give teeny tiny calyxes?
MATHS QUESTION ALERT!!! Does it matter that pH is logarhythmic because 5.0 is 100x stronger than 6.0 or whether I can do 50:50 to find the midway point still? or rather to find 6.5 (ish) because 6.5 is not midway between 5 and 6 in a linear (non logarhythic) scale.
I am unhappy with my bud at the moment, the calyxes seem small and underdeveloped in most of the strains I have been growing recently. I have an entire plant that I have cured which I now consider "trim" to make hash with. I am confident about my nutes (75g fish blood bone in 25l of soil mix), my lighting (mars hydro SP3000) and my strains are from reputable breeders. I have been doing nothing to drop the pH though and I believe that normal multipurpose compost is at like 7.5 or 8, my tap water is at 7.9 and apparently I want to be at 6.5 for soil. I had a quick search on here but can't find anyone talking about mixing erricaceous soil (5.0-6.0) with my 7.5 multipurpose soil to make something closer to 6.5. I've bought "pH down" and a water pH tester to make sure I keep the pH down in the water.
So, has anyone tried using ericaceous? Any other advice? Can too high a pH give teeny tiny calyxes?
MATHS QUESTION ALERT!!! Does it matter that pH is logarhythmic because 5.0 is 100x stronger than 6.0 or whether I can do 50:50 to find the midway point still? or rather to find 6.5 (ish) because 6.5 is not midway between 5 and 6 in a linear (non logarhythic) scale.