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no mate, not in soil. If in soil-less or in coco then yes or it might pick the pH up over 6.5 and beyond.
I find using Bio Balance Foliar is a better option in Hydro. it has less overall organic acids, but it will work at a lower pH value and holds more O2. Bio Balance Media will not get the full power of its package delivered in to the soil if we use it at low pH values, eg below pH 6.2 and so its not the best solution for hydro ranges of pH, where bio balance foliar will work across all pH ranges, from base to acid.
Bio Balance Foliar does most of the things Bio Balance media does, apart from feed K and there are some missing acids that I think are really useful, but these are low polar acids, eg they function at pH 7.0 down to 6.2, hence I always grow something in soil, but if you do want to grow Bio Coco, then I recommend pH 6.2 as the best range, at this level you can use both products safely.
The biggest thing with both is not to use water that contains chlorine mate.
In soil both products act as a natural buffer of pH, this works via the solution stripping out unused IONS which hang around soil particles in substrate with a lack of biological activity. This dont mean you dont have microbes, rather they might not be functioning, temps, moisture, pH, or grower error, etc etc all impact them and various microbes work at different rates and conditions.
So if we use a drench of BBM or BBF, we scavenge the free radical IONS and render them safe, this means they do not hang on to our soils and change the charge in our media, nor do they float around waiting to bind with a phosphate, or a calcium ion or worse, a radioactive ion or some other unwanted metal. It means they dont accumulate, which they do in media devoid of humates and organic acids.
Every time your plant eats some K, it release a OH- for example, anytime it eats a NH4- it will spit out a H+ ion. No or slow life means these gather in the root zone. They are free radicals mate, eg they fuck things up if we get too many. It is this and this alone that causes pH in media to go west buddy. It can not be fixed with extra + or - and so sulfur and lime is a fucking waste of space and for retards who cant understand that soil is electric and so is everything else. if we change the electrical charge of one thing, it has a sequence of chain reactions, most lead to problems for us. BBM and BBF help reduce this naturally occurring risk vector to our media health
This helps our plants by relieving environmental stresses, it helps prevent metal uptake and other pollutants. BBM scavenges IONS so stops electrical interference causing pH fluctuations in the substrate.
Something I do when I meet new soil, bagged or in a yard or field.
Most people dont own or know what to look for if they microscope the land/ media, so we often dont know what state the media is before we plant. because of this BOX has a little system that provides some sort of assurance, it certainly provides the basis of healthy soil.
1. I mix up a drench of BBM, I apply it to the land or media, thoroughly soaking, in pots to run off.
2. After about 48-72hours, I apply via a drench Bio Media Pro. This is free ranging beneficial soil bacteria and molds, they do not need plants to live, they release antibiotic properties in to the soil, restrict the conditions for pathogens, they mineralize NPK Zn Cu Fe and so on, which they hold as fuel in an ION state, this is safe and balanced biological plant food.
3. Next I take my plant, seed of potting, I apply beneficial root fungus eg Root Better.
4. Then i use water only no BBM, no BBF, no food or amendments at all. Why? Well both BBM, BMP, and RB contains enough organic matter, in perfect forms to feed both the bacteria and the fungus, kick starting inoculation.
NB. Dont forget, our soils are rich in all elements, we merely need biology to access them. In the above 3 BOX products, you have a system to access these abundant elements and reduce the damage of randomly applying nutrients where they are not needed. BOX is 100% access nutrients, not some water soluble mythology that prevents you understanding how life and nutrient cycles work. Yes plants eat water soluble ions, but microbes now, they eat organic and make it water soluble all day and all night. there is likely enough NPK in a grain of sand to grow an acre of barley if you use BOX
WS only systems such as synth salts are sold by wickedness. EG the plant cant tell, no it cant, and it cant tell if that EDTA is still on the Fe which it is by the way, and you wont know either, but it will have altered the chemistry of the plant you eat or smoke, did the guy in the store tell you that? Does he know what EDTA does to humans? Can he tell you that? #amateurs :-)
NO BOX products contain EDTA or related chemical chelates. Our chelates are pure biological proteins and our biology is relevant and based on serious research in to natural soil biomes and plant interactions