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BlackHat
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Raising pH lvl for brf cakes question!
#14357745 - 04/26/11 09:10 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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ok i know this is vague but i have this ph raising powder for a hydroponics system. it doesn't list it's ingredients but it DOES say safe for organic use.
its a slight bluish powder which probably doesn't mean much.
i can post a picture but it just looks like blue suger... lol
anyone think i should give it a go? and what ph lvl is best?
EDIT: didnt even ask my question, smoke too much 
does organic mean it wont hurt you? or just meaning that its natural?
Edited by BlackHat (04/26/11 09:16 PM)
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Re: Raising pH lvl for brf cakes question! [Re: BlackHat]
#14357820 - 04/26/11 09:23 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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You want 6. Test before adding.
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Re: Raising pH lvl for brf cakes question! [Re: Carl Sagan]
#14357885 - 04/26/11 09:34 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Try using 50/50 water/fresh brewed coffee to hydrate your BRF/verm, and even a pinch of gypsum. My cakes really take off when I use half coffee, they can contam before the third flush with coffee easier though I think. Not sure, haven't done enough research to see. I should have made half my cakes without coffee this time, maybe next time. The fact that I am nocing them with LCs could be one reason they colonize so fast too though.
Organic means that it was grown with natural fertilizers, no chemical fertilizers or hormones.
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Re: Raising pH lvl for brf cakes question! [Re: 3n1gm4]
#14357895 - 04/26/11 09:36 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Re: Raising pH lvl for brf cakes question! [Re: 3n1gm4]
#14357943 - 04/26/11 09:45 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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theres no need to adjust the ph of pf tek cakes
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Re: Raising pH lvl for brf cakes question! [Re: veda_sticks]
#14358061 - 04/26/11 09:58 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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gypsum has no ph buffering capability.
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veda_sticks said: theres no need to adjust the ph of pf tek cakes
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Re: Raising pH lvl for brf cakes question! [Re: BlackHat]
#14358124 - 04/26/11 10:04 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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We often need to lower the pH of our cakes or other substrates, but we rarely need to raise them. Mushrooms like a pH of 5 to 6. The only thing we raise the pH on is casing layers, but that's what lime is for. I also suspect what the OP has is hydrated lime with a fancy name so it can cost more at the hydro store. RR
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Re: Raising pH lvl for brf cakes question! [Re: RogerRabbit]
#14358480 - 04/26/11 10:45 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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If you want to mess with the PH of your cake you should make some rough ground BRF from long grain brown rice, add a pinch of gypsum per 1/2 pint cake to the dry mix and use some fresh brewed coffee/water 50/50 to hydrate it, try at least one batch so you can measure the coffee. Or just add a very small amount of diluted coffee/gypsum to half your cakes, if you haven't already.
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Edited by 3n1gm4 (04/26/11 10:55 PM)
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BlackHat
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Re: Raising pH lvl for brf cakes question! [Re: RogerRabbit]
#14358525 - 04/26/11 10:51 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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^^
thanks for the info.
awesome so i don't even need it. Yea i figured it was something they just put a fancy name on it. haha at least it was free. I'l mess with it another time but if its not that big of a deal then w.e.
thanks everyone for the help. Simplicity seems best, so i wont mess with the pH lvls for a while. haha
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Re: Raising pH lvl for brf cakes question! [Re: RogerRabbit]
#24449262 - 07/01/17 09:51 AM (6 years, 6 months ago) |
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RR,you may have a answer to my question, I can't seem to find a straight response. If I was to mix a bit of hydrated lime in with the dry verm when I roll my cakes, what effect would it have? I've read lime signals the mycelium to start fruiting. Any truth to this?
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