Help my nightmare day

Hello all what a day started flowering my momma yesterday went to check on her this morning when she woke up and the tips of her leaves were brown and curled up i was like oh crap so i figured i would check the ph went and got me a cheap 10 dollar meter got home shined the tip tossed it in the soil and it was reading a bit over 8 so i was like ok i put a little lemon juice in her water to down the ph a bit came back about 30 minutes later and its up to 9 i was like wtf took the ph meter out tossed it in some vinager and it read over 10 i was like no way brought it back to the store got a new ph meter tossed it in the soil and it read 4 i was omg i killed her ran about 5 gallons of dolomite through the soil sucking the stuff out the bottom with a shop vac then flushed with tap water and got her to about 5.5 so please pray for dazey it might be a rough night for her

if you have any other suggestions on getting my ph back to stable please let me know

well don't go by the soil meters! Use a pH tester meant for the pool with the red drops. Adjust the pH properly before watering and you can test the runoff after watering to get an accurate reading.
Leave your plant be! Don't mess with it anymore.

dude ph aint that hard to control just let your water sit for 2 days it will be fine.. it might even be nute burn unless there drying up

Wretched420 said:

dude ph aint that hard to control just let your water sit for 2 days it will be fine.. it might even be nute burn unless there drying up

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That's not true, the pH of my tapwater is 8 regardless if it sits out 2 days or ten! I still have to adjust it...

well this also depends on your conditions' though that is true it isnt always good enough after 2 days so yea sorry haha

No I'm saying letting your water sit out will not magically adjust the pH within an acceptable range

Are you using any Nutes? And how far are you're lights away from you're plants and what type of lights are you using and the Watts?

you say that this happened soon after you switched to flowering so
did you ever figure that it has something to do with the light???

Hope she's doing ok...test your water my water test at 9 and is very hard, I use my pond test kit on my water if your tap water test high like mine and your soil test low by flushing it you may have been helping it without knowing it, leave it sit let her dry out get a test kit at a pet store test your water, and go from there also get some de-clor and ph up and ph down if your adding nutes stop and more info on your set up would help out a bunch but start with testing your water and adjusting it to 6.8 and test your run off sorry so long

sorry about the late replay i got her all better now ill have pics later got a aquarium ph kit all i could find in my budget she is flowering nicely now no shock at all te leave tips are still a little curled up only on older growth