simple ph question. would really like a reply.

dannyboy602

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Now yall are threw with his question, I got one, if I have store bought hapi gro- Organic Potting Soil, some scotts top soil, sta-green potting soil with 9 months of food in it,berter grow Organic Orchid Mix Soil. vermiculite, perlite and mix it all up, would I need to test the soil with a master soil kit that does all this pH, nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium or just a PH test kit, Lowes carriers three they all suck, but tell me which is the best of the worse, and do I even need it? heres the link to Lowes test kits, I need to know quick, they got two 10% off coupons on slick deals.and everything has to come from lowe's.http://www.lowes.com/Search=soil+test+kits?storeId=10151&langId=-1&catalogId=10051&N=0&newSearch=true&Ntt=soil+test+kits#!
Next time u make a run to Lowes for soil lemme know I don't want u buying the orchid shit and potting soils and pre nuted soils, you're spending too much money. I'll give u a list and u can make ur own rich, fertile mix. This soil u have will test acidic. Don't worry about the exact number as Cannabis is somewhat flexible. And u need to add some lime to the mix. That will bring the number up slightly. Get a cheap ph test kit or a meter and if ur number comes in at about 6.8 that's right on the money. Don't worry about runoff. U can't have salt build up in soil that just came out of the bag.
 
okay guys here's an update of sorts.. I brought my h20 down to a pretty dead on 6.5 and watered. Again the runoff was more acidic (which is of course natural), but it was waay down to a 6.0 or maybe even lower. Makes me kind of nervous, my little buddies are doing so well and I really try to adhere to the "if it aint broke don't fix it" model, but then again I've always heard 6.5 would be the perfect ph for cannabis. I'm going to watch my plant and see if there's any reaction to the ph change, and I realize testing runoff is redundant and won't really tell me much but I'm just trying to take care of my plants. So am I doing the right thing? Bottom line is my tapwater ph is up into the 7s, maybe 7.5 or higher even - so I really should adjust according to that alone right?
Same thing happend to me, I dried the soil out and tested it, was in the 6 range somewhere, I was using a stupid color chart, I tested the water in a tube by itself and it turned blueish gray and that color ant even on the chart, took me forever get that shitt staighten out, after adding to it, flushing it add some more, and I still don't have it were I want. Good Luck with your, now I have found out atleast with my tap water, let it set up for a week, not for 24 hours to get the choline out, but a week, no longer cause of bacteria algae, it will have a diffrent reading, then fresh straight out the tap, I've even herd of this crazy shitt, never tried it, let the water alagey up, suppose to make it a lot more alkaline and the live alage maintains it around the 6 PH level, then for every gallon you put two drops of peroxide not in the whole vat, just what you take out to use, otherwise that peroxide might affect the alage, this is for extreme cases where you have diffrent PH levels coming out your tap all the time and tired of adjusting your levels, if can't get levels straight, flush it with 3 gallon to every gallon of dirt of that alage water and test it as you go, but as that goes any water thats the right PH level are lower, if flushed enough times it will bring the PH level to what the water is or real close. Now thats what I herd never tried non of it.
 
Next time u make a run to Lowes for soil lemme know I don't want u buying the orchid shit and potting soils and pre nuted soils, you're spending too much money. I'll give u a list and u can make ur own rich, fertile mix. This soil u have will test acidic. Don't worry about the exact number as Cannabis is somewhat flexible. And u need to add some lime to the mix. That will bring the number up slightly. Get a cheap ph test kit or a meter and if ur number comes in at about 6.8 that's right on the money. Don't worry about runoff. U can't have salt build up in soil that just came out of the bag.
Thanks for the reply, and the info, and definitely give me that list, now ill tell you what I already have but not mixed up and you tell me what I can use, if any, for starting seedlings, this is what I have in seprate piles in my yard 40 pounds of scotts top soil, two 40 pound bags of hapi-grow potting soil, another 30 gallons or more of old potting soil all diffrent varieties betweeen 1 and 6 years old potting mix, spread out thin on 50 foot of ten rased 3 foot off the ground, so the sun can dry it out, aerate and kill anything in it, but the stupid weeds keep wanting to grow in it, then I went and got 50 gallons of top soil out a 1000acer farmmers field that floods every 10 years and use to almost stay flooded 100 years ago, Im told, All I know everything around this field looks like prehistoric plants from 100 million year ago,its even kinda creepy, regular grass growing on the side of this field would have to be cut down with a chain saw, don't think a bush hog would do it, and my buddy drew some on the side of this field and some in his back yard, the ones by the field were twice as big and some of the sweetest tasting piney, half a joint fried us both, and I think all he did was water them, every now and then, and what he planted was local bag shitt weed and it turned out killer. So I had to get me some that shitt, now it looks like shitt, its redish gray, if anything else I want to test that shitt and see what levels has to be way off the chart.
 
Thanks for the reply, and the info, and definitely give me that list, now ill tell you what I already have but not mixed up and you tell me what I can use, if any, for starting seedlings, this is what I have in seprate piles in my yard 40 pounds of scotts top soil, two 40 pound bags of hapi-grow potting soil, another 30 gallons or more of old potting soil all diffrent varieties betweeen 1 and 6 years old potting mix, spread out thin on 50 foot of ten rased 3 foot off the ground, so the sun can dry it out, aerate and kill anything in it, but the stupid weeds keep wanting to grow in it, then I went and got 50 gallons of top soil out a 1000acer farmmers field that floods every 10 years and use to almost stay flooded 100 years ago, Im told, All I know everything around this field looks like prehistoric plants from 100 million year ago,its even kinda creepy, regular grass growing on the side of this field would have to be cut down with a chain saw, don't think a bush hog would do it, and my buddy drew some on the side of this field and some in his back yard, the ones by the field were twice as big and some of the sweetest tasting piney, half a joint fried us both, and I think all he did was water them, every now and then, and what he planted was local bag shitt weed and it turned out killer. So I had to get me some that shitt, now it looks like shitt, its redish gray, if anything else I want to test that shitt and see what levels has to be way off the chart.
Oh and I have to get most of what I need at lowes, cause I have a lowes card with credit on it, can't get cash from it, just store credit,and Iam afraid it might get shutt off are expire soon.
 
Next time u make a run to Lowes for soil lemme know I don't want u buying the orchid shit and potting soils and pre nuted soils, you're spending too much money. I'll give u a list and u can make ur own rich, fertile mix. This soil u have will test acidic. Don't worry about the exact number as Cannabis is somewhat flexible. And u need to add some lime to the mix. That will bring the number up slightly. Get a cheap ph test kit or a meter and if ur number comes in at about 6.8 that's right on the money. Don't worry about runoff. U can't have salt build up in soil that just came out of the bag.
Which one of these you think I should get if any of them?
http://www.lowes.com/pd_234139-1321-MFS42_0__?productId=3142183&Ntt=soil+test+kits&pl=1&currentURL=?Ntt=soil+test+kits&facetInfo=

http://www.lowes.com/pd_251966-83666-1240_0__?productId=3028419&Ntt=soil+test+kits&pl=1&currentURL=?Ntt=soil+test+kits&facetInfo=
 
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