whats a good cheap way to test ph?

yes , you will be fine doing that sun. sorry about the posts....



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getogrow said:

i used to feed mine with a ph of 4.0 going in.....never had a prob with those nutes. (earth juice) The soil buffered it to an acceptable range an plants ate it.




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I garonfunckingt you if you didn't have lime in your soil it would not buffer it.

soil IS a buffer. the soil food web will take care of it.

I'll post the same thing in this thread so you can read it again. Ph is everything that includes soil ph. If the soil ph is buffered you still need to ph the water unless your water only growing. In water only growing your soil is built up and micro organisms keep the soil buffered. Once you add sythetic chelated nutrients you kill the microbes that buffer the soil.

im not talking "grow mixes" that are made of peat moss perlite an lime , im talking soil.
Even peat moss is a buffer , it will stay in the 5.0 ish range without the lime to bring it up.

mircobes are not the only thing that buffers your soil/mix/dirt.

getogrow said:

im not talking "grow mixes" that are made of peat moss perlite an lime , im talking soil.
Even peat moss is a buffer , it will stay in the 5.0 ish range without the lime to bring it up.

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Ph testing soil is not important? Thats what you said right? It always buffers why test it then?

not important?
i thought i was the one who mentioned the test in the first place.

lets agree to disagree

MSU has an excellent soil testing laboratory and they do really cheap. http://www.spnl.msu.edu/
Sample Submission

and send along with your sample to:

• MSU Soil Plant Nutrient Lab
  1066 Bogue St. Rm A81
  East Lansing, MI 48824.

You can submit a sample directly to the lab, by enclosing approximately two cups of soil in a zip type sandwich bag.

Enclose a check made out to MSU for $12.00 per sample (Standard Test).
For Questions about Field / Crop results, go to fieldcrop.msu.edu

getogrow said:

not important?
i thought i was the one who mentioned the test in the first place.

lets agree to disagree

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Your reading comprehension sucks as bad as your botany.

PH meter or PH tester drops, do it right or don't do it at all

litmus paper. 78 cents from China. Test the water run off.