i think you are waiting a couple days to long to water... If thats a 1 gallon pot, and not even filled to the top with dirt, then you should be watering more often tha once every 7 days. I have a 5 gallon pot and my soil gets dry (top 1-3 inches) every 7 days. You have 1 gallon and it should dry out quicker. It doesnt have 2 b BONE DRY. just crumbly dry top couple inches of soil. I would water a little sooner than waiting 7 days in between waterings.

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Lowes carries a meter to test ph/light/moisture for 7 bucks....make the trip bro...best investment ever...besides a good bong that is!

I have another set of pots that are 6" and they are now bone dry on the top and these plants are not droopy, but the large pots I have are not as dry as the small, so that must mean something, that Maybe I should be waiting longer, this is MG soil and it holds a alot of water, Well I am going to water 1 and compair it with the others.

Ok I watered one of the 6" pots and one of the gallon pots, lets see what happens, tomorrow I will water all the plants if things look good. But once again that MG holds water like anything, I watered untill some water went into the catch tray.

how ur babies doing? ne pics?

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I am new to this, and I have a few qustions on PH. It sounds to me that their are different ways to correct PH problems, 1 is to get the water PH to be such that the soil ph will correct, (soil has ph of 5.0 so using water ph 7-7.4 will get you soil to ph of say 6.5/

The other is to use the PH water at 7.4 and just adjust the contents in the soil to make the PH correct using lime or other items to bring the soil up or down.

and I was told that you can add epson salt to correct the ph too.

I am doing the 1st methold where I am setting the water PH to 7.4 to yeald a 6.5 ph but my soil is not taking it down enough so I will be using a water PH of 6.5 lets see what happens.

it could bee ph.../heat stress/...or it needs to be transplanted....or overwatered/underwatered...

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First i dont think it is heat related, Maybe overwatered, Those ph/moisture/light meters for seven dollars are crap, crap, crap. They are basically only good for moisture. The ph meter on that is so inaccurate it is funny. Red stems can be an indicator of phosphorus deficency. First thing i would do is flush my soil until the runoff or drainage reads a correct ph of between 6.2 and 6.8. Even though i believe you are over watering i would still reccomend getting the soils ph correct first. That perlite should be mixed in with your soil not just in the bottom of the pot, better to use rocks at bottom and mix the perlite in with your soil. also wait till the soil is dry more than an inch down especially if you dont have good aeration the top layer drys out way faster than the rest it is exposed to the light and air. A good method to know when to water is to use light pots, then water feel the pot weight and dont water again till pot is light. I also dont think it is caused by stagnant air.Hope this helps and all grows well

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listen to him..hes on to something

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If the water is the wrong ph then the run off will never read correctly.. But as far as over watering, I really felt that is my issue but after 7 days and the soil is moist an inch down, i have to think that I need to wait more then 7 days, but people are telling me NO every 5 days.. if I wait 10-12 days people will be telling me its UNder watered, and this is whY I think its all PH issue, and not the water.. But I could be over watering but I could be under watering.. So at every 7 days you are going with over watering, so I will try the 10 days to water.