PadawanWarrior
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This is a good thread, and where I finally got down to the details. The first page doesn't really help you. Start here and read on. You'll see the recipe and a cool mixing device that I never thought of.
PH questions
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Nutty sKunK
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Funny enough I literally just got that one! Only for the moisture side of things.If it looks like this, send it back.
Hydro Crunch Soil Moisture Light pH Meter 3-in-1 Soil Tester Kit for Garden D940010500 - The Home Depot
With Hydro Crunch 3-in-1 Soil Meter, you can easily check on the condition of your plants. The moisture meter will quickly tell whether your plants is doing well. Firstly, let you know that dry and needswww.homedepot.com
Says my soil is pH 8. When it is in fact 6.2 lol
PadawanWarrior
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Exactly. I bought one too awhile ago and quickly learned the pH part is useless. Mine read crazy high too, lol. I sent it back to Amazon.
Rurumo
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I have an Apera PH pen that was around $49 that has been very accurate and holds calibration well. Once it dies I'll get a bluelab, so it really depends on if you can afford the best now, or need something a bit cheaper to get you through. Soil PH probes don't work, and soil moisture probes aren't necessary. Be sure to store your PH probes in KCL solution, it's the biggest factor in longevity, they are sensitive little things.
Bukvičák
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Honestly I have that cheapo also, I have not bought it, but I think lot of us have tried to “save” some money. Till the moment you realize you might be better to gamble those cash doing much bigger favour to yourself. Bluelab pH pen is shit (or maybe I had some crap unit) and it takes shitload of time to get final readings. Their EC meter truncheon is crap as well inaccurate, you have to take it out and put it back in to let it start blinking. I have bought them both and than sold and went back to my ancient pH/EC meter. They are definitely better than the cheapest amazon shit I guess. Bluelab soil pH pen is completely different story, instant and accurate reading, solid glass probe and you can use it for measuring liquid as well. Those were my best spent money ever. I see guys also mentioning Apera, this one looks great but it also seems to be more fragile and that price is ridiculous. Slurry test is vaste of time since you are not in lab…
twentyeight.threefive
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Continuously adding more water = overwatering. Good way to starve the plants of oxygen.
I wouldn't trust that 3-in-1 meter to skewer marshmallows for roasting. Throw it in the trash, it's only going to create more problems.
xtsho
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I don't understand why everyone is so caught up in giving advice on which pH pen to buy.
The OP has seedlings in 5 gallon pots of a soil coco mix. They used a highly inaccurate pH meter to test the pH that gave a reading of 8. The best thing the OP could do with a seedling in a 5 gallon pot is to let it grow before fiddling around with trying to correct the PH of the grow medium that almost certainly isn't the 8 pH they think it is.
"Ocean Forest is pH adjusted at 6.3 to 6.8"
"Unlike traditional acidic peat moss with a pH of 3.8-4.0, coir's neutral pH of 5.5-6.8"
Unless the OP added something else to that mix that would raise the pH significantly there is no way the pH is 8 meaning that the OP is trying to correct an issue that doesn't exist.
Just water the damn seedling when it needs it. The pH of the medium is going to be fine. If anything it's going to be at the lower end of the range due to the added coco. Trying to lower it based on a false reading of 8 is going to do more harm than good.
The OP has seedlings in 5 gallon pots of a soil coco mix. They used a highly inaccurate pH meter to test the pH that gave a reading of 8. The best thing the OP could do with a seedling in a 5 gallon pot is to let it grow before fiddling around with trying to correct the PH of the grow medium that almost certainly isn't the 8 pH they think it is.
"Ocean Forest is pH adjusted at 6.3 to 6.8"
"Unlike traditional acidic peat moss with a pH of 3.8-4.0, coir's neutral pH of 5.5-6.8"
Unless the OP added something else to that mix that would raise the pH significantly there is no way the pH is 8 meaning that the OP is trying to correct an issue that doesn't exist.
Just water the damn seedling when it needs it. The pH of the medium is going to be fine. If anything it's going to be at the lower end of the range due to the added coco. Trying to lower it based on a false reading of 8 is going to do more harm than good.
PopAndSonGrows
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I use drops to check my pH. No need to calibrate, won't break. Kinda hard to read if you have dark or black nutrient-water, but lucky for me I don't.
xtsho
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You're overreacting.
NewGrassCity
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This is what I was referring to;
Bhizzle28x
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How my plant has been turning out and I had questions about ph I had it the past two times I did a slurry around 5.5-5.6 was wondering if the leaves going into a lime green was a sign of nutrients lock out or deficiencies? I haven’t added any nutrients to my soil at all. It’s just been in a soil & coco mix since I transplanted into a 5 gal.
