Another lot of sense made.
I have seen light tops, thin tops and twisted leaves in the past, ph issues blatently. And as you say, always the tops that look funny first. I seriously can not believe I overlooked this for so long.
I watered my first ph'd water last night, it was a plain feed, no nutes so I ph'd to 6.3, EC of the plain water was 0.6.
Checked my runoff, pH was 6.3 EC was 1.6 which with what little I know about EC is quite high? Which would explain why I've got a little bit of tip burn at the mo. Sticking to my usual schedule I would have fed nutes next feed but now that I've been able to check EC, I can clearly see, my plants won't need nutes next go.
So whilst I'm only trying to keep an eye on my pH, it has enabled me straight away to gain a better understanding of how my medium is at any one time, before I used to base it on, alternate water and nutes and watch out for tip burn, if I got burn, slow it down, lol. This way is much more precise, and should allow me to see when the plant is uptaking max amounts of nutes. I like it
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