Help please ph problem!

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jimmyrun

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hey how do i raise the ph of my soil without lime dolomite, i cant find it anywhere!! my ph is 4.5 and one plant starting to show it, any suggestions appreciated!
 
MegaBud

MegaBud

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You can get PH up or down at pretty much any hydro store.
I had the same low PH problems, nothing worked as good or as easy as the PH up. 1/8 tsp to a gallon after adding nutes got it roughly where I want it, a little trial and error and I was right on.
 
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Slow Roll

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Dolomite lime is calcium carbonate + magnesium carbonate. Standard agricultural lime, found in every hardware store and anyplace else that sells lawn-related chemicals, is usually just calcium carbonate and will work every bit as well as dolomitic lime. If your plants aren't suffering a Mg deficiency, use agricultural lime. It's so cheap you will have to buy much more than you need (it comes in big bags) but the stuff keeps forever. Just avoid hydrated lime and quick lime, those are different.
 
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Wetdog

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Slow Roll said:
Dolomite lime is calcium carbonate + magnesium carbonate. Standard agricultural lime, found in every hardware store and anyplace else that sells lawn-related chemicals, is usually just calcium carbonate and will work every bit as well as dolomitic lime. If your plants aren't suffering a Mg deficiency, use agricultural lime. It's so cheap you will have to buy much more than you need (it comes in big bags) but the stuff keeps forever. Just avoid hydrated lime and quick lime, those are different.
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^^^^^^ That ^^^^^^ +rep, good answer.

Lime in one form or another should not be difficult to find. I get mine at Lowes, but HD, wally world and just about any place with a garden shop has it.

It doesn't have to be dolomite, just not hydrated or quick lime, as stated.

Wet
 
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jimmyrun

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hey guys thanks for the replies! i just bought ph up for fish aquariums, as someone else told me to before i read this, will that work? thanks again!
 
bamfrivet

bamfrivet

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that will adjust the ph in your water, but the soils ph is different. you will need to add some lime to your soil to get the actual soils ph to go down.
 
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