Plant health

I grow in living soil. I was going to try and flower my plants to pollinate them about 2 months ago and had to move suddenly. I reverted back to veg to continue once I was on my new house. I did top dress bloom nutrients and then suddenly stopped and went back to just water as my soil has what it needs. My plants got moved, started watering at my new house and now they look ill. I’m thinking it’s a ph issue with the new water supply but I thought I’d be fine since I’m in living soil.
1. can I adjust ph with ph up/down without killing my soil?
2. Would the top dressing of nutrients be the issue ?

they haven’t really started to veg again. Purple stems, loss of color in leaves. Very slow growth. I’ve never had these issues with living soil before. Not sure what is going on.

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Lizard0420 said:

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Just checked the ph of my filtered water. 8.5
Gotta be the issue
Some of the hardier plants are doin a little better than the others but the more finicky strains aren’t happy at all. Relied to heavily on the soil to do the work. Denver Co water has a super high Ph, just a heads up. I’m an idiot for not looking before I jumped.

Yeah, a PH like that can cause problems. PH it down to around 6.2 after adding nutes/calmag.

Phytoplankton said:

Yeah, a PH like that can cause problems. PH it down to around 6.2 after adding nutes/calmag.

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Why would they add nutes and calmag if they're growing in living soil? And if you're feeding any decent nutrient why would you even need calmag? Calmag is rarely needed regardless of what you're growing in.

xtsho said:

Why would they add nutes and calmag if they're growing in living soil? And if you're feeding any decent nutrient why would you even need calmag? Calmag is rarely needed regardless of what you're growing in.

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Should of said Organic nutes, some are top dressed, others can be in liquid form. Truly, in a living soil grow PH shouldn't have to be adjusted, but something is messing with the plants. Adding calmag depends on what you put into the living soil. My guessis that a PH of 8.5 might have enough cal/mag, but you'd need the water quality report to see what the dissolved solids are.