ph problems

My soil's ph will not come up the water is at 0.7 or 0.8, but the soil stays at 5.5/5.8. What do i do? Please help.

Chumlie said:

My soil's ph will not come up the water is at 0.7 or 0.8, but the soil stays at 5.5/5.8. What do i do? Please help.

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Add a little Lime (Ca), you can find it at any gardening or farm supply center.

To raise pH you want to add a base (alkaline substance), to lower you use acids

Add dolomite lime.

Have you tried flushing?

I have had several babies that were having PH in the low 5's!! I took water with a little higher PH than normal, like a 7 instead of a 6.5, ran about 3-4 X the water as the pot size and by the time I was getting about 2/3 I check the PH again to see if it is going up, as I am getting closer to a more normal range of run off I start using water at my regular PH level. This has worked for me, it takes a lot of water and I was afraid of it being too much but they were ok, I hold off nutrients till they have a 2nd water with just plain water and the PH is not lowering like it was.

Chumlie said:

My soil's ph will not come up the water is at 0.7 or 0.8, but the soil stays at 5.5/5.8. What do i do? Please help.

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what do you mean your water is at .7 or .8 do you mean 7 or 8. are you reading it right or a typo

Thanks for all the replies, but i figure it out just some realy crappy dirt. I went and bought Miracle G (organic) mix it with some bone mill, and perlite.
It's Saw Good.