BadlyDrawnBoy
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If those Advanced Nutrients PH perfect told you to mix with Botanicare lines I'd call and bitch !First grow, seedlings have started and I've prepared my 5gal hydro buckets. I went to check the PH today, and began by going through the process of calibrating the new ph meter. As it turns out, my tap (well) water is 6.0 ph. This tap water is what I used to fill my buckets. I thought...great...ph is right where it needs to be and the water needs no adjusting.
But...I've used advanced nutrients ph perfect and hydroguard. Somehow, in so doing, it has changed the ph of my buckets to 8.4. How is this possible? Does hydroguard have that high of a ph? I thought ph perfect advanced nutrients was supposed to keep the ph around 6? My tap water is 6, and these two ingredients changed it to 8.4. I'm just not understanding how that happened.
So I've ordered some ph down. No biggie, but I am curious why this is the case.
Also...My seedlings are only on day 7, so they really don't need to be getting any nutes yet. The roots may be reaching into the resevoir, although I cannot see them coming through the hydroton yet. But even if they are drinking from the nutrient water, the ph doesn't matter unless you are attempting to feed nutrients through that water, right? Ph is basically irrelevant if it's just straight water and not nutrient water? Because the seedlings don't need the nutes, the higher ph should be fine until friday when the ph down comes in the mail, correct?
Still, confused. Just measured my tap water ph and it's 7.8. So the ph perfect Adv. N and the hydroguard made it jump to 8.4. I don't get it.