Kinda but not really there are 2 pathways for uptake and ion exchange is how the plant effects the soil PH. This is why ammonium will lower PH of the soil when it taken up and nitrate will raise the ph as its taken up. The ions exchanged are what does this. When ammonia us taken up the plants exchanges h+ ions and that lowers the PH. H+ ions are how PH is measured.
To add PH is only affected by dissolved elements.
But the plant doesn't only take up what it needs as seen by toxicity, heavy metal uptake and if ratios are out it effects the plant negatively. Now there are things that effect the forms of the nutrients and thier availability and ph is one of them, along with temperature and so on. I won't get all into the rest of it.
In
happy frog and other soils and peat they have added buffers like lime that break down slowly over time and buffer the ph of the soil.
You grow in coco and coco does not have that so you need to ph your feed. In soil you absolutely do not need to ph it as the soil will do this almost immediately. While nutrients can impact soil ph when in excess as they are generally acid, soils like
happy frog should have no issues buffering ph for an entire grow unless you have a nutrient build up and that's just grower error.
When you talk about super hiway this doesn't exist. There are many ways to increase availability including microbes.
Imo for soil you want a ph of about 6 2-6.5.
5.8 is best for coco
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