I just remembered what I was blabbering about,
when it comes to water in Organics/living soil esp, look into the contents of your local tap water, even if you’re filtering out the chlorine/chloramines, you must know the base ppm coming from tap bc the dissolved minerals will remain in the water unless it’s run through deionization resin or RO filtration. the issue I was having that took me forever to find out what was throwing my soil ph off and plant health was that my city’s tap water was very alkaline at 9.5ph and say at around 300ppm...let it bubble for 24 hr and the ph drops to 7.5 and sits there... I would have to add crazy amounts of phos acid to drop it only for it to shoot my EC up with P, and watch it also slowly creep back up over time... it would do the same thing in my soil eventually throwing off the entire balance...came to find that the amount of calcium/bicarbonate in the water results in a higher buffering capacity, and thus stabilizes it. There’s more science to it that I won’t act like I know how to regurgitate haha. Anyway when I strip my water all the way to 0ppm through RO and deionization, I could add one drop of anything and the water would jump to the ph of that...
But when I wasn’t, because I do zero run off, salt build up from the amount of bicarbonate in my water even after carbon/sediment filtration would build up as well as the P from
The phos acid, if I’m not mistaken phos acid reacts with calcium as well somehow...
Lots of imbalance
anyway most soil growers look over this a lot I feel
