Agent007
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Doing my first indoor in soil under CFLs for many years. After nearly 2 months of veg just started 12/12 lighting. Already showing pistils (hopefully female).
Anyway I read up and saw a video about controlling the ph of your water which I hadn't been doing at all. Nonetheless the plant looks very healthy. So I decided to use the ph kit with my fish aquarium to test the tap water I'd been using and its very alkaline (ph 7.8 ...top of the scale). However the filtered water I should have used is about 7.0 which is close to the 6.2-6.8 we aim for..... and can be easily adjusted further.
My question is when I add my soluble nutrients to the water for weekly feeding do I only test and adjust the water BEFORE adding the nutes? Or do I adjust the water AFTER adding nutes?
I've been using Aquasol 23-4-18. But with flowering starting the only suitable nutes I could find at Bunnings with higher Phosphorous is Manutec African Violet soluble food 14-15-11.5. It also has 1.15% Sulphur as Suplhates added making it slightly acidic (but not as acidic as some nutes used for orchids). So I'm wondering if I should be doing the ph test after Ive added the nutes to the water.
Thanks for any advice.
Anyway I read up and saw a video about controlling the ph of your water which I hadn't been doing at all. Nonetheless the plant looks very healthy. So I decided to use the ph kit with my fish aquarium to test the tap water I'd been using and its very alkaline (ph 7.8 ...top of the scale). However the filtered water I should have used is about 7.0 which is close to the 6.2-6.8 we aim for..... and can be easily adjusted further.
My question is when I add my soluble nutrients to the water for weekly feeding do I only test and adjust the water BEFORE adding the nutes? Or do I adjust the water AFTER adding nutes?
I've been using Aquasol 23-4-18. But with flowering starting the only suitable nutes I could find at Bunnings with higher Phosphorous is Manutec African Violet soluble food 14-15-11.5. It also has 1.15% Sulphur as Suplhates added making it slightly acidic (but not as acidic as some nutes used for orchids). So I'm wondering if I should be doing the ph test after Ive added the nutes to the water.
Thanks for any advice.
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