Gee64
Well-Known Member
On a cellular level theres alot of processing/converting processes occuring inside plant cells. Each plant cell has numerous things going on in it. Each cell is actually a factory. Each process is in a different area of the factory. Each process requires a slightly different ph but they are all between 6.2 and 6.4. By watering at 6.5 it allows the soil to naturalize to that number which gives the microbes full availability to all nutes. The plant can easily and does constantly sway the ph on a cellular level to its individual process needs. Too far away from 6.5 and the microbes cant mine nutes or the soil/fungus ratio gets out of whack AND the plant has to spend all its energy trying to internally sway ph. Plants will just shut down and even commit suicide by starvation while they still have a chance to seed out so keeping ph flatlined at exactly 6.5 lets the microbes and fungus balance to mine max nutes and the plant spends zero energy trying to internally balance the ph. A deficiency is a starving plant consuming itself in the first stage of suicide. Its almost always a ph thing. Even low nute soil can grow a plant with good ph to let the microbes/fungus mine the soil and not causing the plant to burn any extra calories on balancing its internal ph.
