Do you guys ph your water outside?

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2012dmax

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Just curious, it set me back almost an extra hour a day calibrating each bucket of water for each plant. It would be so much easier if I could just walk up to the plant with a garden hose.

only reason I'm asking is because I read in a blog that calibrating your waters ph level is mainly for indoor growing and if I knew this I could have saved myself a crap load of labor. Do you think your yield will be a noticeable difference if you ph it vs straight garden hose from a domestic well?
 
Foothills

Foothills

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I save up the rain water all summer and use it. If your well water is hard with a high ph, I would not use it.
 
Garden Boss

Garden Boss

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What is the Ph out of the hose? If its way off, then you could Ph a massive batch all at once (instead of Ph balancing each bucket)
 
budsgalore

budsgalore

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Ph is overrated..I use swamp water, you know that black shit that smells like sewer..if that's not available use the closest stream for the source. An old timer taught me that trick and with stalks the size of my wrists they must love it.
 
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2012dmax

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I only do soil grows, nothing else. My water is pretty hard and has a natural ph of around 7.6
i have a 250 gallon tote I guess I will just make a huge batch and pull from that.
 
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Dyna Ryda

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I think it's funny how people over complicate growing cannabis. You don't need to ph your water when growing in soil/soil less medium. Most bagged soil has dolomite lime in it. That works as a ph buffer. Changing the ph of the water you use will not change the ph of the soil. If the soil your using doesn't have a ph buffer in it you can easily add it.
 
petert

petert

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Never had..I have irrigation rights on my land..It's right from a local river, snow melt and natural spring water.
 
SenorBrownWater

SenorBrownWater

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2012dmax said:
I only do soil grows, nothing else. My water is pretty hard and has a natural ph of around 7.6
i have a 250 gallon tote I guess I will just make a huge batch and pull from that.
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Thing is, the minerals that make your water hard also act as ph buffers. So you will fill your 250 and ph it, water your plants, then when you get to the last plant the ph will have drifted up a few tenths ....Over hours tenths turn to whole points....then your right back where to started...So then you need an RO filter and with it you need to worry about waste water,calcium,mag and your pumps daily limit....

Yeah phing is a slippery slope....
 
Darrin661

Darrin661

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Uhh it really depends how much you baby your plants,.And well I say yes at least let the hose or tap water set over night to let the Ph and chlorine levels drop,or just buy a cheap Ph meter
~Happy growing
 
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TWS

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Chlorine from tap water does not effect the plants as the soil buffers it( does it kill your land scape plants ?). Chloramine doesn't go away and my tap water PH tends to rise when setting. Im pretty sure large grows aren't PH'ing 100's gallons of water.
 
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