Perfect PH level of water

Highflier22

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• Aug 8, 2011

• #1

What is the perfect level for water used to water your plants? Or what is the IDEAL number?

 

RawBudzski

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• Aug 8, 2011

• #2

Theirs only 1. Bottled Water. Then Never Look Back.

 

sen.c

Active Member

• Aug 8, 2011

• #3

I would say that carbon filtered rain water does pretty good actually.

 

Highflier22

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• Aug 8, 2011

• #4

What do you guys use?

 

RawBudzski

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• Aug 8, 2011

• #5

I use Tap water. Let it sit in a big garbage can for two days... I mix my solutions in 5gal buckets. After I add nutes I PH it... my tap is 8 ph.. but theirs no need to PH water until you put nutes in it.. Unless your not adding nutes... then just PH it

 

taipanspunk

Active Member

• Aug 8, 2011

• #6

...distiled water plus 3 different dyna grow nutes = 6.6pH and 128ppm

 

Highflier22

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• Aug 8, 2011

• #7

sounds good, whats a good level to be at PH wise after adding the nutrients?( sorry if I am being annoying asking all these damn Q's, just trying to get my shit together lol)

 

taipanspunk

Active Member

• Aug 8, 2011

• #8

Highflier22 said:

sounds good, whats a good level to be at PH wise after adding the nutrients?( sorry if I am being annoying asking all these damn Q's, just trying to get my shit together lol)

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pH 6.2 to 6.7 is best to ensure there is no nutrient lock-up occurring...

 

kevin

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• Aug 8, 2011

• #9

my plants get the water that comes out of the water hose

 

Milovan

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• Aug 29, 2011

• #10

This PH thing is up in the air!
My huge healthy outdoor plants
do just fine and thrive at 7.2 PH
tap water and Fox Farm soil.

 

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Wetdog

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• Aug 29, 2011

• #11

I use lime in my mix (dolomite), and don't pH anything. Especially, like kevin, the water coming out of my hose or tap.

Why complicate the simple?

Wet

 

smokebros

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• Aug 29, 2011

• #12

6.2-6.8.

If you go above or below this you are making your plants susceptible to nutrient lock or disease.

 

VX420

Active Member

• Aug 30, 2011

• #13

In the book “Growing Great MJ” page 125 has a chart with all the nutz and at what PH levels they are absorbed by the plant. It shows the nutz before they get locked out at either the low or high end. When you PH lock a plant you cannot lock out everything, just the high range nutz or the low range nutz. According to the book 5.5-6.2 allows all the nuts from both the high and low range to be absorbed by the roots.