High pH
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Bluecheeze
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What is the pH in the water you feed them with? you should adjust it to 6.5. I am not sure but i guess if you would flush your soil with pH adjusted water it should lower the pH in soil. 
TheFertilizer
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Measuring run-off is actually representative of your soil pH. What you need to do is get some of the soil and some distilled water, mix in some water to make it a slurry and then measure the pH of that. If your soil is too high you can get some dolomite lime to stabilize it to 7.
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I wouldn't go any lower than 5.5 as you don't want them to bounce harder as more gradual would be better I would think. Are plants showing problems with PH? As if just minor issues then you don't want to go from too high to too low and gradually bring it down by flushing with 6.0 and see if it changes.
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Spunds like your seeing some lockout already. You should always mix dolomite lime or even powered oyster shell with your soils to buffer them BEFORE planting. Never use hydrated lime also that will burn your plants. Dress the surface with dolomite flour that ways every time you water you will be sweetening the soil! ;-)
