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Help With A Ph Issue

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I have a well and use it for all of my indoor and outdoor growing. I noticed some yellowing in my clones and a couple of my plants in flower. You can see from the pic that most of the plants are doing well, but some aren't. I tested the ph yesterday (AFTER watering) and found it to be 7.6. I used ph down and got my water buckets down around 6.0.
Indoor won't be an issue for adjusting ph, but my outdoor plants will be a huge PIA, if I have to adjust it in buckets for watering. So, my question is.......what can I do to help with the ph issue for the outdoor plants? Should I add dolomite to the soil before planting them outdoors? I already have premium soil in the pots, but stressing on the ph issues. Also, since I watered yesterday, should I go ahead and flush them today or just wait a couple of days and water as usual?

Any help would be appreciated.
Help with a ph issue
 
#2
do not add dolomite, dolomite is for neutralizing acidic soils.

If you're going to be doing large scale gardening at that location you should probably get your water tested to find out what's in it. Not all alkaline water is created equal.
 
#3
Adding dolomite to your soil is only gonna make things worse. Your well water is already loaded with minerals majority of which is most likely lime that makes the water pH pretty high. Adding more lime to your soil is gonna raise your soil pH even more and it will be a royal pain in the ass getting it right afterwards as lime will be buffering high soil pH.
 
#4
It's weird. Most of the plants don't seem to have an issue. In the flower room ALL but 1 plant seem to be doing fine. But that one is starting to yellow pretty bad. It's identical counterpart (same strain) is perfect. Maybe I'm just freaking out over something minor.
 
#5
I believe you will find zero need to adjust pH for your OD girls. I haven't ever done it, I'm on a well, my pH is 8+, my carbonate hardness is around 10*dKH, GH is the same. Indoors is an entirely different beast, IME.
 
#6
Appreciate the replies. I was stressing. Indoor isn't an issue as I hand water the plants, so easy fix. Was thinking it wouldn't be so easy if I had to do it for the gargoyle outdoor pots, lol.
 
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