Help a guy out with a ph mystery

Mashoe

Member
K so lately I've been trying to really science up my grow skills and I'm running into a ph problem in my res and I'm not even doing true hydro! I've got raised soil beds that I'm hand watering with a pump and wand and I've been noticing something I'll mix my res (proper order to minimize covalant bonding)
Then ph I'll make sure my ph is holding for a few minutes before I start watering. When I'm done watering I'll check my ph in the res again and it's always wayyyy out of whack I phed to 6.5 today's and when I was done it was 7.3!!!
The worst is when i do fulvic, humic, b vitamin and calmag
conditions:
Using tap water ppm around 150 ph close to 7

Res size 1000 litres

Using a bubbler to recirculate and air-rate the water

Any help is appreciated I know I'm probably missing something big here
 

Mashoe

Member
I'm testing extra water still in my res that has never seen soil. I mix my res and with out doing anything other than take volume out of it the ph sky rockets
 
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