Do you pH your water when growing in soil?

GreenhouseGreen said:

Yes. It's even on the annual water quality report mailed out.

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Crazy. Just seems really high.

PadawanWarrior said:

Crazy. Just seems really high.

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I know. I always see other people posting numbers way lower than what we have. It makes me want an RO unit real bad. Especially since I'll be getting into indoor with coco here soon.

I was in the 300’s before ro

BlandMeow said:

Curious to hear from the organic growers if they pH their water when growing in soil.

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Yes, I do. My reasoning is that I know my soil can buffer any feed that I give it ,but knowing the PH just gives me piece of mind.

Skunkbudz said:

Yes, I do. My reasoning is that I know my soil can buffer any feed that I give it ,but knowing the PH just gives me piece of mind.

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This goes for anyone that does mess with pH. Do you use a bottled pH up/down or do you use citric acid and baking soda to adjust?

GreenhouseGreen said:

I know. I always see other people posting numbers way lower than what we have. It makes me want an RO unit real bad. Especially since I'll be getting into indoor with coco here soon.

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Is the water in your municipality supplied from a water tower filled with pumped up well water? I know many cities in Canada still have those. Do you know what those 500 ppm are? Just carbonates?

BlandMeow said:

This goes for anyone that does mess with pH. Do you use a bottled pH up/down or do you use citric acid and baking soda to adjust?

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Orange phosphoric down and Silica up

BlandMeow said:

This goes for anyone that does mess with pH. Do you use a bottled pH up/down or do you use citric acid and baking soda to adjust?

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phosphoric acid and a silica

Skunkbudz said:

Orange phosphoric down and Silica up

phosphoric acid and a silica

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Adding silica is a good angle to get the added benefit.