Vinegar to reduce water pH?

I was reading vinegar is a safe, cheap way to lower the pH of water.. is there any truth to that?

Yes i use it. Ph from 8.0 to 6.5 with aprox 0.5ml per litre, or 2ml/Gal.

lime73 said:

Yes i use it. Ph from 8.0 to 6.5 with 0.5ml per litre, or 2ml/Gal.

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Awesome, thanks! Found my water to be between 7 and 8 so I need something for my baby!

If you are not doing DWC then yeah its fine to use vinegar. I've been using organic apple cider vinegar to ph down.

I've used both vinegar and citric acid. Citric acid seems to keep my ph more stable. It's the stuff they use in Earth Juice PH down. Very potent stuff.

GrowOR12 said:

I was reading vinegar is a safe, cheap way to lower the pH of water.. is there any truth to that?

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You should use organic apple cider vinegar if you use it.

Xs121 said:

If you are not doing DWC then yeah its fine to use vinegar. I've been using organic apple cider vinegar to ph down.

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No DWC here, just soil

GrowOR12 said:

No DWC here, just soil

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Why you PHing and amending your soil.

KK26 said:

Why you PHing and amending your soil.

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I'm phing the water for feeding. Is that wrong?

Have you seen the price for a litre of pH down?
It's not something I use much of tf it's £20 a litre, If you use it regularly you can use different acids for pH down depending on the phase you're at, iirc it's nitric for veg and phosphoric during flowering.

GrowOR12 said:

I'm phing the water for feeding. Is that wrong?

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Not sure if it's wrong or not but from decades of growing I never PH my water nor my soil.

What I do know is that there is an ideal PH range for soil and generally good soil does fall within this range. What you put in the top will not be the same as your runoff, the soil has taken care of the PH in most instances.

Call me lucky but I'm generally very pleased with my results and gave up chasing PH numbers about 2 decades ago.

Fucking about chasing numbers reminds me of my marine keeping days before I knew with hands on experience and not complicating things.

Some here swear by PHing their water even though in soil but what works for one will not always work for the other so I'll keep our of those arguments because I found Mt way and would not swap my homegrown for any others homegrown. I'm pleased at my results and I do not PH anything.

Just saying and it works for me.

All i use is Ecothrive Charge and Buddhas Tree Organicus. No thing else and I'm always pleased.

Just a head up I wish someone told me, vinegar breaks down in soil rather quickly. Its not a permanent solution.