Soil ph help!!!!!

crazyj4life

crazyj4life

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I need to know my soil ph and fast!!! I have a pocket ph meter and have no clue how to obtain my soil ph with this instrument. PLEASE HELP!!! I'm looking for as many methods as I can get so I can try them all to see if they differ.:?: and what should my water PH be?

PS I'm useing Lambert green formula components :White Sphangnum Peat
Perlite
Vermiculite
Limestone
Fertilizer Starter Charge
Wetting Agent
 
er0senin

er0senin

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next time you water you plants take a bit of the water that comes out from the bottom of the pot and check PH on that = soil ph.

make sure to check in your tap water (fairly easy to look up this info) so that your PH meter shows correct values. peace
 
MrGhettoGrower

MrGhettoGrower

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The runoff ph and ppms are not acturate I've tested my fresh ffof and sunshine mix 4 it's low right out of the bag and the ppms are really high but plants look great~ Fresh Sunshine Mix 4 doent' have nutes but the runoff was like 1600 ppms with no nutes add?


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Coho

Coho

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It should work..just read up on it. Put soil in a clean glass with distilled water and shake up. Then check the pH.
 
crazyj4life

crazyj4life

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Coho said:
Are you having issues? If so pics.
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It's hard to see in the pics but the leaves are slightly yellowing and on some plants looks blotchy. Also today it seemed like the leaves are getting dry and felt like they have cracks in them or a reptial like skin.( the cracks don't actually go through the leaves to the other side)
 
thehole

thehole

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Checking your runoff with your meter after you water does work.

It's about a +- error of .2-.4, especially in all organic soils. It's a more accurate method when nutes are introduced, about a +- error of .1-.2.

It will give you an idea of where you are with your pH.

As for ppm readings, in soil it's not necessary.

Get them out of those pots soon.
 
MrGhettoGrower

MrGhettoGrower

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Your plant look good what the issue I don't see nothing? Lime every watering/feeding it still won't raise the ph try it, Your plants look great if they were my I'd stick'em in 5 gallon pot of ffof and plain water~
 
MrGhettoGrower

MrGhettoGrower

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It may raise the ph of the medium but the runoff will stay low here my pic you can't see the color they're really perky with a ph of 5.5 runoff I'm phing my water 6.3 and these babes look happy with their 3rd day of flowering~

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scroglodyte

scroglodyte

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only direct ph of soil means anything. run-off means nothing. run-off ph = how buffered, by the soil, the water became. make a slurry of soil, and test that. as Coho said.
 
(818)MedicineMan

(818)MedicineMan

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MrGhettoGrower said:
It may raise the ph of the medium but the runoff will stay low here my pic you can't see the color they're really perky with a ph of 5.5 runoff I'm phing my water 6.3 and these babes look happy with their 3rd day of flowering~

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I experience this myself. I water with a solution at PH 6.8 my runoff can be as low as 5.3. Using a high end soil PH meter and I get 6.3 - 6.5 in the buckets. My plants are fine.
 
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Wetdog

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crazyj4life said:
I have been watering at a ph of 6.5. and the mix in use has limestone in it. Will that do the same thing as Dolomite lime or should I go grab some???
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Go grab some, it cost less than $5.

I don't pH my tap water and it's ~7.1. You will do more harm with whatever you are using to change the pH of the water. The lime will correct it all on its own.

Wet
 
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