ph meter on the fritz better to skip a watering tonight or...

[areUkind]

should i skip the watering tonight and get to the store first thing in the am and get a new meter or should i attempt to ph without meter all based on what i routinely do? ahhhh!

 

[sneakinman13]

what medium are you in? if its soil i would def wait till you get the ph pen calibrated.

hope this helps

 

[apep]

Hey, well if you do the same thing every time you water you should be pretty good. Same water, ph adjuster, nutes you should be right on where you usually are till you get your new meter.

 

[areUkind]

what medium are you in? if its soil i would def wait till you get the ph pen calibrated.

hope this helps

coco not soil...

 

[FreezerBoy]

Hey, well if you do the same thing every time you water you should be pretty good. Same water, ph adjuster, nutes you should be right on where you usually are till you get your new meter.

This gets my vote.

 

[areUkind]

Hey, well if you do the same thing every time you water you should be pretty good. Same water, ph adjuster, nutes you should be right on where you usually are till you get your new meter.

sometimes i screw up and add like 3drops too much of AN ph down and it throws my ph into the 4's i only mix 4-6 gallons a night so its quite a delicate balance...

 

[areUkind]

i think my nutes come out around 6.2 so would watering tonight at like 6.2 and then a nice heavy watering tomorrow of ph'ed water seem ok or is coco forgiving enough to wait 13hrs and get watered in the night cycle....

keep in mind these are full sized plants just flipped into flower. everyday these girls are drinking about half a gallon each every night in only 3gal buckets

 

[Green lung]

About 2 weeks ago my ph pen lost its calebration and I didn't know, I know for certain it was one day maybe two. I got 7.0 known solution and my pen was low by 1.2.

How was in flower 3 or 4 weeks and it caused some yellow and some spotting, so I woudn't water is my vote i think my plants looks worse from the PH rather than missing a watering from my experience.


Is your calebration off or is the pen actually shot?

 

[buddin_904]

u should water them based upon your memory of how much pH 2 add to a certain number of gallons.....cmon now, i know you have a good enough memory to get it pretty dam close!

 

[Hereward]

And from now on always keep a little dripper bottle of ph drops on hand. They're a life saver in exactly this type of situation, and I actually find them easier to use and more reliable. The only major downside to them is they obviously lack pinpoint precision, and the perception of color tones may vary from one persons vision to another, not to mention different lighting, so they're subjective. But once you've got your feed regimen dialed in and things are consistent and predictable, they work great for just a quick confirmatory check.