5 gallon bucket DWC users- Feeding schedule?

I am interested in how you feed /maintain your plants on say a weekly or bi-weekly basis. I ask because all of a sudden I am having trouble keeping my ph up, or at least now it is affecting my girlys. I always use to premix my solution in another 5 gallon bucket, adjust the ph alittle lower, between 5.8-6.2, then just pour it into the buckets with the netpots adding to what was already in there. For the past 2 months this was fine and they looked great! Now for the past week or two 24 hours after I have been doing this my ph drops to 4.6ish. So what is going on. I have tried acouple things such as completely emptying and washing the buckets and also tried lowering the ppms. And tonight I hit them with Florakleen. Any help would be appreciated. Also before my plants showed stress I never checked the ph of the solution actually in the netpot buckets.

Raise or lower your PH.. soil or hydro?? Makes a diff?? Very faigue question.

Budsworth said:

Raise or lower your PH.. soil or hydro?? Makes a diff?? Very faigue question.

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Sorry didnt read quote right my apoligles

DWC usually people use rubbernaids with a 5 or 6 hole netpods and plenty of ariation, check your PH and water temps of course nutes with good lighting your GOLDEN, Its these people that try to grow in these small places....I understand people don't have the right conditions or space or place to grow good bud. But please don't stop trying cause thats where
AMERICAN nohow comes into play....and we are the BEST at that...Smoke em if ya gatta em and save yer roaches....

sounds like you dont change your water enough.i just used that florakleen the other day and i think that shit rocks. put it in and 2 hours later my plants were a total dif color. drained and refilled my bucket add nutes,then ph and it is doing great 3 days later.I add nutes 1 time a week and only use water the rest of the week to keep my level up and i ph the res after i add water.

So six string you would say your schedule is Feed, Feed, Water, Change? And you change it about every week? I started using Awesome Blossom which is 2-11-11, along with my other Technaflora products which would give me a total recipe of 6-15-20 I am wondering if I am using too much AB and that is causing my low ph, I mean in 24 hours it drops more than 1.0 so something is up. The girlys aren't dead or anything but they are showing multiple deficiencies. They are on day 35 of flower. Maybe I'll change their buckets again tonight and just try mixing up some new shit without the awesome blossom. Well thanks for the replies six and budsworth!

If your using tap water let it go for a half day and see if it raises...I usually empty my tub every week and let my roots have a air bath while I clean the tub and fill it back up...when I get the tub filled up I add my nutes and check the ph(I also have the air pump and air stone running)...wait 20min or so then check the ph again (should be around 5.5-6.0) and most of the clorine is gone and I put my lid and plants back on top...after a couple of hrs I check the ph again and it stays arond 6.0...if it's went up I'll add about 5 drops of ph down then wait a couple of hours and check again

Ok, so last night I added Florakleen and let it circulate in the buckets for 2 hours and then emptied the buckets and ran new solution. Now 24 hours later my ph is steady at 6.1ish and ppm just about where I left them. All 6 plants drank about a gallon which is more than they were drinking as of late. I topped them all off with ph'd water and believe I will start a new each week. I think my drama was that I hadn't cleaned my bucket solution good enough/ever, eventually leading to nutrient lock out. I hope all is well from now on and I hope this update helps someone else.

I think that florakleen really is the shit, must have some kind of ph stable in it. i have had no problems since i did my flush.sounds like your on the right track if they drank that much water.