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you know ive had nothing But probs with this ffof first my ph way high so i buy tester for water and soil fix water prob Now today i check soil level and its down way low 5.5-6 any1 else have probs with this prob?any help is nice Thanks

are you using ferilizer? fertilizer will lower ph. feed with regular tap water from now on, it normally is buffered to around 7 so itll balance it out. the living organisms in the soil like a ph of around 6 anyway.

if youve used lots of fertilizer the organisms in your soil will be dying off

Roots Organic

next time add dolomite lime and you should be fine. i had the same issues first time using it. good luck!

The original prob was my water reads at 8.4 so i lowered it to 6.8 Well low and behold 4 days later after i watered them they went down to 5.5 (soil) so i watered it again to day and the water was about 6.2-6.4 so im hopen it'll even out, i think next time i'll go with dolamite tho c if that make a difference, what gets me about all this is i used sannies buffertabs so i ruined those with the ph being off so much i think anyway

just fix it homie. roots organic sounds good they probably have some good organic feed if you want ti mix it in their soil if you havent already added compost

never have a prob with any ff but i always add some lime

The only issue I have is how hot FF soil is with nutes, on the plus side I dont need to feed veg nutes at all.

dckdjg said:

you know ive had nothing But probs with this ffof first my ph way high so i buy tester for water and soil fix water prob Now today i check soil level and its down way low 5.5-6 any1 else have probs with this prob?any help is nice Thanks

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I had the same problem back when I really was growing tomatoes. I can't help much fixing it though, because my solution was to just chuck the dirt and go straight to hydroponics.

Soil can be really great, and it can be really simple. But if it isn't, it fights you way more than hydro does. All those particles and "stuff" in the soil are like a huge pH anchor dragging you back to where IT wants to be, not where you want it to be.

If you ever want to try hydroponics, I'd suggest checking out the pH Perfect nutrients that Advanced Nutrients makes. Obviously study up on hydroponics extensively before you take the plunge, but the pH Perfect technology they use makes it much simpler to transition by basically guaranteeing that the pH will be, well, perfect. Basically "Easy Mode".

And before you ask, I don't think it would work in soil, at least not if the soil's natural pH is off the target already. The two would "fight" if that were the case.