coco ph level, how to test it

[oldman_67]

That's the one I got. And ill be calibrating my meters if I notice the ph or Ec of straight tap water starts climbing/decrease a lot.

[oldman_67]

Hi all, another question

 

Did a water at 6ph and runoff was 5.1, was wondering why it was so low? And how I can stop it?

 

I've always watered at 5.9-6.1ph. And made sure runoff was correct.

 

Is it because I let the coco dry out too much? My plants look like theyvr got nute lockout as the leaves are light green and yellowing showing all signs of low nutes .

 

Thanks.

[bufo marinus]

Buzzo, you would have to have the worst understanding of growing I've seen in a long time. You've grown a few autos and you think you know it all.

Kindly shut your mouth regarding measuring the run off,... your really giving me the shits with your idiotic advice.... grrrrrr

 

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And ill be calibrating my meters if I notice the ph or Ec of straight tap water starts climbing/decrease a lot.

 

oldman, how did you ever get to become an old man by being so bloody stupid.... Seriously.

Go to the fricken rubbish bin, sift thru it 'till you find the instructions that came with your pH meter, no not the pH meter for soil, the pH meter for fricken hydroponics,.... now read the instructions, it will tell you to calibrate the bloody thing!

You've been given so much good advice by lots of well meaning people, well except for Buzzo's garbage, but you just don't listen! You've bought shit potting mix, shit coco, the wrong meters, you haven't calibrated your meters, you've fucked up the pH, over fed them, grown them in small pots, you've asked a thousand ridiculous questions then snubbed your nose at the advice given time and time again. The only reason I've come back to edit this post is to show other noobies how your making a simple hobbie look hard and your stupidity is attracting other like minded simpletons to further blur the picture.

 

Noobs listen up the following plants were grown easily in coco, most without a meter or flushing. They are the result of trial and error and using something called common sense. I've posted how to grow them like this in another one of the oldmans plethora of threads that ask the same bloody questions over and over and over... the answers are somewhere in these forums, if you want to grow like this, work it out for yourselves, I'm out of here before I fricken scream.

Carry on

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 22, 2012 by bufo marinus

[-SLIPPER-]

Love your work bufo.

[bluntman_77]

 

Did a water at 6ph and runoff was 5.1, was wondering why it was so low? And how I can stop it?

 

I've always watered at 5.9-6.1ph. And made sure runoff was correct.

 

Thanks.

 

did you thoroughly flush the coco ? i would flush again. once the ph of the coco has stabilised if you find it is moving towards one end of the scale during feed cycles then adjust your mixture to compensate , ie if runoff is 5 , put mixture higher , 6.3 .

 

i generally find its the other way , ph goes up during the feed cycle , so I feed with 5.8 ish and end up with 6.1-6.3

 

coco is pretty tolerant though , so if you got big problems there's usually a cause . 1st job flush , flush , flush till input and output of the coco is stable . then re-feed

[jaikai]

Even better is to heed Bufo`s advice...mate ya been told too many times to not know what`s going on. Instead of making threads every other day, try listening and learning.

 

Seriously...

 

JAIKAI

[-RiverRat-]

If you want to test the ph of your coco and its inherent buffer grab a bowl or a cup and put some of your coco in it .

 

Youl need some distilled or rain water (both dont carry a buffer and will swing ph easily) to test with.

 

Best that the coco your using has been flushed with your low buf water aswell.

 

Just mix in the water with your coco and test using ph meter and youl have the ph of your coco.

 

It should be 5.7 to 6 or as is stated on the packet as to its ph range.

 

If the ph is out then your coco is bung and changing the ph of it yourself i cant advise on .

 

You wont do it with nutes alone and ph up or down wont effect coco's extreemly strong buffer which rules over all and will dominate the overall ph of your nutrient uptake.

 

So if your ph is out go and buy more coco or learn how ph buffer coco yourself so you can get it spot on before you use it.

 

I flirted with coco for a lil while and thats the best of my knowledge on it be it right or wrong

 

good luck with it all its a good medium

Edited August 24, 2012 by -RiverRat-

[oldman_67]

Okay thanks bluntman and river,

 

Thought I did something wrong but I guess my coco just wants to sit a bit lower on the ph level, yeh I've flushed it well runoff was what the tap water went in at.

 

id a flush of one last night just to see where they were at and was a touch high, but I did have to put in some really high ph water to get the correct runoff last time. So I just feed my others with 5.8 to lower it a bit till they get a real feed when they have dried out.

 

And boofman, if you don't like my questions don't bother answering and sharing your knowledge. There was a time when you didn't know, hopefully you weren't bullied by arragant people. Plenty of other level headed nice people on here.

[bufo marinus]

Well I've certainly never claimed to be level headed or nice or not arrogant.... but bullying?... hmmm that's a bit harsh, no I'd prefer to say I'm highly strung and have trouble with non-grower types, police, dickheads etc.

... I didn't say you wouldn't get there liloldman,... was only slinging a bit of shit at ya along the road to get you to lift ya fuckin game you can thank me later, carry on.

[bufo marinus]

If you want to test the ph of your coco and its inherent buffer grab a bowl or a cup and put some of your coco in it .

 

Youl need some distilled or rain water (both dont carry a buffer and will swing ph easily) to test with.

 

Best that the coco your using has been flushed with your low buf water aswell.

 

Just mix in the water with your coco and test using ph meter and youl have the ph of your coco.

 

It should be 5.7 to 6 or as is stated on the packet as to its ph range.

 

Good tip there rrat.

Here's one good reason to be reading the run off that I didn't read in a book. Whenever the plants have had root problems I've watched the pH drop from around 6 to low 5's high 4's.

I have used plain tap water to wash the roots, dunked the whole rootball in Scarid10 to get rid of the fungus gnats that were starting due to the shot roots and watched the plants recover in low EC - 1.0 fed coco/perlite mix. For anyone wanting some info.