If using tap water, would it be safe to say the pH would be in a good range after letting it sit 24-48 hours? I have read that this allows the chlorine to evaporate. I'm growing in soil and aiming for 6.2-7.0 pH (is this correct range?). Thanks!
While you should leave it out to let the chlorine evaporate, I do not think that necessarily means the pH is correct or not. I think you will need to test the water regardless. I don't plan on testing mine unless I have problem, and suspect a lot of lazy or uniformed growers probably just let it sit and use it.
Leaving it sit out evaporates chlorine it's not a pH fix. You'll need pH up& down for that. There's other ways I've heard that work, but that's the most widely used method I would think.
You are doing great. A beginner learning Hydro-Chemistry is a SMART beginner. If you have 6.0 dirt, the 7.0 water that comes rom most taps is FINE. Evaping the chlorine out just makes for a smoother smoke from a healthier plant. [SIZE=13.63636302948px]A pool shop has Test Strips for like $3 a hundred. They also have chemicals but I avoid them as they are NOT for potable water. Vinegar and Hydrogen peroxide (AMAZING STUFF for PLANTS!!!! Oxygenates the ROOTS in the soil) are CHEAP and gentle and edible. $3 should set you up for a couple years @ a TABLESPOON a grow. use an eyedropper per gallon.[/SIZE] [SIZE=13.63636302948px]One other thing that grows Me 20 OUNCE TOMATOES and 7 inch Bell Peppers outside is "SUPERThrive" It's EVERYWHERE for a nickel a dose and I SWEAR it's better than fertilizer. It can bring plants back from the DEAD. Google all these things. most of it is CHEAP!! Save your money for good papers or a MEGABONG with FUEL InJECTION instead of a Carb! LMAO![/SIZE]
Be careful. Many water supplies that use chlorine also use chloramine. Chloramine, unlike chlorine, will not evap out of the water. Noone can tell what the pH will be like.
Kind of. Evaporating chlorine removes chlorines ability to render soil dead by destroying microbe populations. Hydrogen peroxide is not smart To add to soil, it may oxygenate roots, but it also, once again, destroys microbe populations. Vingear doesnt have as good of an effect as something like citric acid. Dolo lime mixed into a properly mixed soil with living microbes makes the soil "self adjust" Superthrive wont release their ingredients list,, but many believe its simply molasses and b1, plus other vitamins. I wont use it, it causes hormonal changes in all the plants ive tested.
Thank you. this is how we learn. The reason I don't LIME is that if your PH is 7.6 and you want it 6.5 you need to REMOVE LIME, by adding sulphur. SO... @ 3# per hundred feet of surface, how many tablespoons does a BEGINNER use in a 3 gallon pot with a 7.1 PH soil he needs to adjust. Vinegar is a simple solution that permeates ALL the soil within hours, instead of having to be SOAKED IN OVER MONTHS. I guess as a Botanist with a lab, you can 'TEST' plants. I get magnificent growth from following the Superthrive directions. I encourge EVERYONE to research EVERYTHING BEFORE they try them out. If 48/50 bloggers say sex in your grow room is better, then go for it. Just don't hurt the plants.
Thank you for this! just bought the liquid pH kit with the dropper. You mix the solution with the water and the water changes color. Is this okay instead of strips? 250 tests/kit for $5.
Unless you're having issues its best to change pH slowly through waterings not suddenly with in hours. Sudden changes are a terrible idea if it can be done slowly without issue
Sure thing!! you can go all out on a soil test kit too. I have seen electric analysers that will tell you the difference between Nitrogen in one pot compared to the next. But I don't need that. What I am doing produces a 2 gram a day quality product @ 4 #'s a month. I'm happy. And PLEASE. Don't take anything ANYONE has to say on a stoner blog as GOSPEL. Check everything 5 times! ASK questions, develop you OWN answers. I was a little wrong abut Peroxide before. It CAN harm Microbes in the soil, but MOST microbes are interested in eatng decaying vegetation in your soil, thus making it richer. I a garden, that is VERY important over the long run. In a shovel or 2 of dirt in a bucket with a WILD PLANT (weed) like Sativa growing for 3 months... not so much. Hit these links for a short Biology class. LOL http://bio-organics.com/mycorrhizae/ http://www.usemyke.com/mycorise/mycorrhizae/mycorrhizae.html http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/faculty/davies/research/mycorrhizae.html YES, it's good for the plants... BECAUSE it's good for the SOIL!. You can't just treat the plant and get results. Wanna know a real simple secret? us COCO coil instead of dirt and add precise doses of nutrients into you WATER. This is Hydroponics MEETS Old Fashioned Gardening. LMAO. I hope you are having fun with your grow. it's been almost as great a hobby as it is medicine for me. TOKE HAPPY.
Cheif Smokumlot is RIGHT. In all things, be gentle. Except Kicking butt. i even take names gently. lol
Soil if organic will self adjust ph i use tap water left out for 24 hrs i add my nutes and i havent tested my ph in over a year now i found it was doibg more harm than good soils optimum range is 6.5-6.8 auto help page if you need help with autoflowers http://forum.grasscity.com/index.php?/topic/1294434-Need-help-with-autos?-Welcome new vote page sept please vote http://www.dutch-passion.nl/en/photovote/2014-09-03-autoultimate%C2%AE-loki_1752/
You want to know a better secret in my opinion, grow with properly amended organic soil and don't mess with pH, nutes, flushing, or headaches anymore. This would mean completely avoiding peroxide because why let it destroy what you spent time building and the living soil will take care of its own pH.