Alter Jean
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Don't freak out. Relax. Your soil is buffering as the water passes through it... No need to flush it.. Pictures are worth 1,000 words.Not good, not good!
@Alter Jean @osowhom
I watered the Hindu Kush (the one with more stains) with a bottled mineral water with pH 6.6 and tds 30ppm (which I use to calibrate my meter).
The runoff pH was 5.8 and tds was 180ppm.
I am thinking to buy and use a mineral bottled water with pH around 7 to 7.5 and flush her with it. Agree?
6.6 should be fine for now as long as you didn't soak it. But it sounds like you ran quite a bit of water through it to get runoff numbers...
IMO runoff in soil doesn't mean much. I wanted to wait and see what Leeski had to say. Maybe check out his journal.
It's about the value that you put in. I don't even think he is PH'ing but he also isn't running water through his plants like a flood..
You need to keep whatever is in the soil, in the soil. If you wash it out every time you're not going to end up very happy..
Sounds like you keep watering when you should let it dry out man.