So I have been using Earth Juice nutes and also using their organic ph adjusters. Well I just learned about bubbling the mixtures and am seeing that this raises the ph of my RO water + Nutes to 7.2. So I have been Adding Ph up and raising it through the roof! and my soil reads 7-8ph with a stick in the ground probe. My plants have produced decent, but I know that with the variety of issues, pH is likely a main source. Just today I read a ph thread on here and It said that when RO water is ph'd it reads wrong with standard cheap ph electrode testers. So i add my standard 5mls/gal of organic cal-mg supplement that usually only goes in the feed bucket to my plain RO water and it results in 6.1ph, perfect SO here is my question.... my issue has always been too high ph (my fault) and even with the change to RO + calmg, Feed w/o Cal-mg, alternating water days I will be averaging about 6.5ph. Do i get dolomite lime to put in my soil at 2TBS per gallon like everyone says to buffer at 7ph? it doesn't seem that there is a buffer that keeps the soil near the intended 6.0ph so is it useful to buffer to 7 if you actually need to keep the soil pH a little lower? Also, since I am using the EJ lineup (grow, bloom, micro, meta-k, catalyst) should I also be adding mycorhazzae and bacillus org. to my soil-less HP-Pro mix media? it comes with a small amt of both in pkg. Thank you all for your help, I hope to have even happier girls soon
you want your pH of your soil to stick around 6.4-6.8. adding dolomitic lime will raise your pH, something you dont want to do. -OSUB