RO drops water pH to 4.9, does it matter? Alternative to pH up?

Crab Pot said:

No worries = No CalMag+?

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Exactly. I will be taking my softened (hard water run through a water softener) well water, running it through my 5 stage RO filter, which has the three gallon tank, or whatever. I have a pump that pressurizes the line a bit. Makes the RO work more efficiently, etc. I worked with the engineer at Water General on this. Nice people. Anyway this runs to the Blumat pressure reducer, and then on to the blumats. Worked groovy for 2 years that way. First with straight well water, then one run on RO. Properly mineralized soil is all that's needed. After several grows in the ROLS pots, you would add a few minerals again as part of the amending. A little lasts a long time.

Got to love that... it gets even easier...

Isn't it the truth...?

Soooo guess what I just freakin realized...
A cheap alkaline filter raises pH 1.0-1.5.

PROBLEM! SOLVED!

Every strain I own handled the 4.9 pH water for 2 days, all except one,.. and its a good one (Headband) so I'm real thankful I did a little reading and realized this fix. She got canoe leaves 2 days after I turned off the pH up. It's a mag def, I've dealt with it before with this strain. Soon as I hit it with an Epson salt mist of proper pH'ed water its happy again.

Everyone with this RO low pH issue already has an RO system (obviously) and if you have a strain like me that don't like low pH water, or need to move it up for some other reason, instead of spending money on pH movers (even earth juice) why not spend it on another filter? An Alkaline filter. Doesn't matter if its pre or post all your other filters, just long as its in there it seems to work for me. pH is 6.0 now.

I'm sure the right soil will do the job of buffering, but I kinda wonder why force it into slavery by pouring 4.9 on it everyday.