Hello and thank you. MY run off ph in Soil is 5.8 this is with distilled water. if I pour 7.5 phed water I can get the run off water to read 6.3. My questions is should I be PH my Nutes up to 7.5? or should I ph the nutes to 6.3 and use a top feeding of agricultural lime to try to raise the run off that way? This is my first grow so im starting to wig out thanks
Top dress with the lime. Use ground/powdered, NOT hydrated. "I" use 2tbl/gallon of mix or 1cup/CuFt of mix. Wet
Lime will help at little on ballancing your ph. It does take a while for it to start working. IMO the best thing to do it add the nutes to the water and then figure out what ph you need to get the run off to be 6.5. Example if the run off has been 5.5 you would want to make your ph about 7.5 and try and get it ballanced to 6.5. Once you get the run of to 6.5 then you make your next watering 6.5 and it should stay there. I use ph up and ph down from genral hydroponics from ebay.
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