low soil PH..

[FadedMalone]

I need to get a good digital meter cause its hard to check the ph after you add the diamond black with the drops.

 

[Muddy]

I need to get a good digital meter cause its hard to check the ph after you add the diamond black with the drops.

That humic acid will have little effect on the pH, so check it before adding the humic.

 

[FadedMalone]

thanks very much Muddy.

 

[FadedMalone]

One other question and I'll let you be..lol Can I mix a little high calcium garden lime to raise the ph in my water or any advice on what to use to do so. Thanks again...

 

[Muddy]

I wouldn't add any lime until you do the flush and see where you're at. To raise the pH of your water you can either buy commercial products like pH Up and Down, or you can use baking soda to raise it and vinegar or lemon juice to lower it.

 

[n00b]

Flushing with ph 7 didn't raise my soil ph at all. I used a handful of dolomite lime for a 3gal pot and watered as usual. In ten days ph was close to normal.

BUT FIRST!!

Since you may have to flush anyway, try a watering with plain distilled water which is ph7 and check the runoff. See if you get lucky and it comes out good. If it's still low then I would flush and check runoff and if necessary add lime.

 

[FadedMalone]

I flushed plants lastnight and the run off was good afterwards.This morning I watered my biodeisel mass with ph'd water at 7 and checked the run off and it was in the 4s,very low. This is only the second time this plant was watered with nutes. I don't get it man!

 

[n00b]

You'd better get a "dry soil" test to check the actual soil. Something doesn't sound right; if you run ph7 thru it and it comes out in the 4's that means your actual ph is like 1 lol.

I grabbed this from Lowe's: Mosser Lee Soil Master Test Kit

It's nice as it has tests for ph and npk giving you a good idea what's going on in your soil that you wouldn't be able to tell otherwise.

 

[FadedMalone]

I don't know if this even works this way but really can't see a reason it shouldn't, I took some of the dirt I had left put some in a jar with the water I use and shook it up and let it sit till the dirt settled and then tested the water and by the color indicated it to be around 7.5 to 8. The ph actually went up some. I used some stuff called earth recharge that supplies microbes to the soil and I thought that in organics those help control the ph. On the back of the bag of Whitney farms organic soil says this is whats in it, "Regionally formulated from organic materials (including one or more of the following: forest products, peat humus, or compost), sphagnum peat moss, composted manure (in Florida cow manure), pasteurized poultry litter, alfalfa meal, kelp meal and fertilizer".

 

[n00b]

What are you using to measure ph?