Advanced Nutrient PH perfect for soil grow?

Hey guys,

I've been having problems throughout my first grow with ph as I haven't had a reliable ph tester so I switched from hydro to soil. Now I have no way to test my ph. It hasn't been tested in 20 days. I started flowering two weeks ago. I'm wondering if ph perfect mixed into feedings would help or is it just good for hydro.

Also, would plants drooping be a sign of ph problem and lower leaves going veiny yellowish green. No chance it is overwatering.

Test your water before you feed it to your plants. So mix your nutes in your water, pH it to 6 and then feed. Any product that claims to buffer your pH into a certain range is total BS. No one knows your water or your nute line except for you and you should treat it as needed.

Homebrewer is correct. You do not own the pH perfect line, because it hasn't been released yet, and theyve been talking about it for a very long time now (i tihnk close to a year). You may own some of the re-released additives, but those have nothing to do with ph perfect. The so called ph perfect is apparently to be built into their base nutrients when they are re-released, which they havent, and probably wont ever be.

Anyways.

You need to look up some basics about checking your soil pH. Switching from hydro to soil because you don't have the tools t ocheck your pH is absolutely insane. You need to be checking your pH in any cannabis cultivation, period.

Normally you can get away with pHing your nutrients before watering, but since you have no idea what you put in there, look up checking your run off, and consider a soil pH kit.

Get the proper tools man, or get used to yellowing leaves.

And to answer your question, i find that plants typically demonstrate a yellow or neon green colour when dealing with wild ph swings. If its just yellowing, that might be a naturally occuring part of your plants flowering process. its difficult to say... pics would help.

DankBudzzz said:

Hey guys,

I've been having problems throughout my first grow with ph as I haven't had a reliable ph tester so I switched from hydro to soil. Now I have no way to test my ph. It hasn't been tested in 20 days. I started flowering two weeks ago. I'm wondering if ph perfect mixed into feedings would help or is it just good for hydro.

Also, would plants drooping be a sign of ph problem and lower leaves going veiny yellowish green. No chance it is overwatering.

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Never just add something because you think you should - even if it's Advanced Nutrients. LOL

I haven't seen this ph Perfect stuff anywhere, though the legends are growing.

If you have no way to check your pH, I think you're going to be in trouble pretty quick. You need to save up to get a tester - or you need to make sure that you are watching the plants carefully for signs of pH changes. Of course, if you can't test to see how much the pH has changed, how will you know if you've fixed the pH at all?

Time to suck it up and pay some money for a tester man.

what is a good tester? Im checking on ebay to get an idea of what i would need.. would this one work?

http://cgi.ebay.com/4-WAY-SOIL-ANALYZER-1880-pH-Light-Moisture-NPK-Tester-/140269610993?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20a8b867f1

I would suggest running sunshine organic peat moss as a medium. It is perfect for AN nutes. Been running it for a year great stuff. Treat it just like soil.

treeburner said:

Never just add something because you think you should - even if it's Advanced Nutrients. LOL

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EDIT: ESPECIALLY IF ITS ADVANCED NUTRIENTS.

They've been preaching ph perfect for well over a year. I'm pretty sure its the same as most of their products- a marketing scheme.

I'm surprised no one has asked what kind of soil you are using? Most "packaged" soils are designed to maintain a certain PH range. IE the ever popular sunshine mix #4 is garunteed to be approx 6.0-6.5. They add dolomite lime to the mix and other stuff to acheive this because peat on its own has a ph of 7+. This means you dont have to ph your water/feed. Thats one of the benefits of growing in pre-made store bought mixes, you do not have to adjust your ph. It is ofcourse a very well abused myth that the ph of your water somehow has long term effect on the ph of your soil. MOst posts asking for help with diagnosing sick plants in soil are replied with, "whats your ph?" which is totally irrelevant.

Hydro is ofcourse different because the water is your medium so odvisouly ph has to be monitored and adjusted.

Think about it, you grow pansies in sunshine mix #4 and MJ. You would never ph the water you feed your pansies and they thrive and grow fine. Cannabis is not some sensitive alien strain that needs special parameters that no other plnts on the planet need. Its a weed, it thrives easily compared to lots of other common plants.

Also, a good ph tester can be had for less than 50 dollars. So why on earth you would switch from hydro to soil because you dont have a ph tester is completly beyond me. I switched from soil to hydro and I will never EVER go back to soil. Soil sucks indoors. Its dirty, it smells, bugs love it, disease loves it, its heavy, it wastes TONS of water, its labour intensive (hand watering sucks) and probably the main thing is that I dont think I could stand the slow growth of soil again.