Water out of my tap at 8 PH!

bricktown73

bricktown73

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I am using Mad Farmer Get down to lower my PH. It currently comes out at 8PH and after adding NUts it goes down to about 7PH. But, I have to add Table spoon after table spoon after table spoon to get it down a 1/2 point. Should I just keep adding this till I get it down to my desired PH? Or can I harm my plants by addind too much of this Chemical? It seriously takes like 5-10 tbls to get it down to like 6.5.
 
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atombomb

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If your using Gen Hydro Ph up/down I recommend you switch to AN or Europonics Gen Hyd I have heard tons of people say they have to use a shitload to make any adjustment. A few drops of my europonics ph down in 3 gallons of water drops my ph significantly more than a half point. Maybe your water supplier puts a ph buffer in the water???
 
bricktown73

bricktown73

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atombomb said:
If your using Gen Hydro Ph up/down I recommend you switch to AN or Europonics Gen Hyd I have heard tons of people say they have to use a shitload to make any adjustment. A few drops of my europonics ph down in 3 gallons of water drops my ph significantly more than a half point. Maybe your water supplier puts a ph buffer in the water???
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I see. I am using Mad farmer "Get down" but my Ebb and flow Tanks are 40 gallon each. are there any stronger PH down Solutions out there? Cause I have to put a ton of solution in my tanks.
 
Lil Czr

Lil Czr

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My tap water is also 8, and I've found that white vinegar works great for me and it only takes about a half cap full per gallon.

But after I started using molasses I didn't have to use the vinegar anymore because the molasses brings the PH down on its own very well.

This is for soil growing of course.
 
bricktown73

bricktown73

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Lil Czr said:
My tap water is also 8, and I've found that white vinegar works great for me and it only takes about a half cap full per gallon.

But after I started using molasses I didn't have to use the vinegar anymore because the molasses brings the PH down on its own very well.

This is for soil growing of course.
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mine is hydro, in clay pellets. Can I try this? Or do you have other alternative trick to lower my damn PH . I am using GH BLoom, Mirco, Grow for nuts and afer affind my nuts to my 8PH tap water, it got it down to about 6.9-7.3. I have heard someone makes Nuts just for hard situtations like mine.

Anyone heard anything on these Hardwater nuts? Thanks.
 
Lil Czr

Lil Czr

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I don't know about the vinegar in your res, I don't see why not but you might want to ask someone with more experience in hydro. But the molasses is a definate no no in hydro setups.

I believe that your PH in hydo should be somewhere in the 5.8 - 6 range if I'm not mistaken.

Are you using a meter or liquid drops to check your PH?
 
bricktown73

bricktown73

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I have a ph, ec, ppm meter. Its just that my damn tap water PH is to high right out of the gate. I hope we can resolve this some how I am just not sure of how right this moment.
 
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LastOneLeft

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My ph water straight from the tap is 6.5 about using the liquid tester. << Am I suppost to test the water after letting it sit for 24hrs? Or can I use it as it is? Btw What should the temp be when feeding?

Thank you In Advance

LastOneLeft
 
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