PH level drifting

[Jame9111]

I was recently phing my mango Kush at 6.2 6.3 was told recently to drop it to 5.8 everything's looking good but confused if I need to pH at 6.2 now or continue at 5.8

 

[Roy Growin]

Hiya
Correct pH is determined by your soil/coco/compost medium and what nutes you are using
So what's in the pot and what's it being fed?

 

[Fuzzy Duck]

PH drift could well be a term used in hydroponics when growing in water or inert growing mediums with a water/nutrient solution where various actions may cause the PH to shift.

To be honest with you this where most peeps get confused

How ever when in growing in a soil or a compost blend which is PH correct & this acts as your PH buffer which will change slightly over period of 48 hours once nutrients are applied... There is no need to PH correct nutrients for soil grows.


Ok we will talk a little about REAL LIFE.

Your next door neighbour who grows tomato plants in his/her green house they go out once a week & give them there weekly feed !

Mmm was that PH adjusted for tomato plants or did they just mix that up with tap water ?

Any body thinking about this ?


Do you even know your own garden soil PH ?

How do they grow ?

Should you mix up some bizarre concoction of nutrients to feed your own front or back garden with shrubs, trees, annual bedding plants or herbaceous ?



If so, you have more than likely over looked a lot of stuff or lack of common sense !

 

[Phytoplankton]

There's a difference between feeding in soil vs feeding in containers of soil. Some nutrients are only well absorbed in a narrow range of PH, with the wrong PH, the plants will grow, but not thrive. The water PH, after you add nutes needs to be in the 6.2 range for soil, 5.8 for coco. That way the water containing the nutes is more readily absorbed by the roots as the water flows past them. I personally "float" my PH a little in soil, one feeding at 6.0-6.2, the next at 6.6 to 6.8. I base that on the optimum PH for absorption of the nutes and micronutes. Seems to help, but it might be experimenter bias.

 

[Jame9111]

Hiya
Correct pH is determined by your soil/coco/compost medium and what nutes you are using
So what's in the pot and what's it being fed?

I'm using general hydroponics floor series full line. And I think the pot size is 10 gallon

 

[Jame9111]

There's a difference between feeding in soil vs feeding in containers of soil. Some nutrients are only well absorbed in a narrow range of PH, with the wrong PH, the plants will grow, but not thrive. The water PH, after you add nutes needs to be in the 6.2 range for soil, 5.8 for coco. That way the water containing the nutes is more readily absorbed by the roots as the water flows past them. I personally "float" my PH a little in soil, one feeding at 6.0-6.2, the next at 6.6 to 6.8. I base that on the optimum PH for absorption of the nutes and micronutes. Seems to help, but it might be experimenter bias.

So technically I should be phing my nutrients feed at 5.8 considering I'm using pro mix HP

 

[Jame9111]

PH drift could well be a term used in hydroponics when growing in water or inert growing mediums with a water/nutrient solution where various actions may cause the PH to shift.

To be honest with you this where most peeps get confused

How ever when in growing in a soil or a compost blend which is PH correct & this acts as your PH buffer which will change slightly over period of 48 hours once nutrients are applied... There is no need to PH correct nutrients for soil grows.


Ok we will talk a little about REAL LIFE.

Your next door neighbour who grows tomato plants in his/her green house they go out once a week & give them there weekly feed !

Mmm was that PH adjusted for tomato plants or did they just mix that up with tap water ?

Any body thinking about this ?


Do you even know your own garden soil PH ?

How do they grow ?

Should you mix up some bizarre concoction of nutrients to feed your own front or back garden with shrubs, trees, annual bedding plants or herbaceous ?



If so, you have more than likely over looked a lot of stuff or lack of common sense !

The pH of the soil I use is 5.8, pro mix HP. And I never thought of the example you made using tomatoes lol i do grow tomatoes out front and no I never pH that water outta the tap .. but when I do give food I'm scooping it out of the reservoir and it's already pHed and I didn't think pro-mix HP was considered soil

 

[Phytoplankton]

So technically I should be phing my nutrients feed at 5.8 considering I'm using pro mix HP

Promix says 5.8 to 6.2.

 

[Jame9111]

Promix says 5.8 to 6.2.

Thanks I was phing at 6.2 and it seemed like it started hurting it so I dropped it down to 5.8 and things look better.

 

[Jame9111]

I even dropped the flower room down to 5.8.