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ive switched from commercial ph down to apple cider vinegar. dont know how well this works if at all... trying to see if anyone else has experiance in this area.
Ph adjustment is really insignificant in the grand scheme. Meaning whatever it does kill will only be a small % of the millions of bennies you are introducing to your soil.
What will i use when i want ph more alkaline ??
as i see it ph dosent matter in tlo and as long as your soil life is happy they will deal with that for you..make sure your microlife is thriving and your ph will fall right into line.... if your using chem products in tlo and it killed your microlife thats probaby why your ph is out of wack.
a healthy portion of dolomite lime in your mix should also help buffer it at 7
I personally would dissolve dolomitic lime in RO water. It takes some agitation and some time, but believe you me, once dissolved that pH will NOT fucking shift!What will i use when i want ph more alkaline ??
Buddy, if you're only taking 5mins to watch pH, you're not watching it long enough. It will move, then bounce, depending on alkalinity of the source water and other compounds (how they might latch onto cat/anions). It takes me fully 30mins to pH my feed for my coco girls, and if I wait long enough it absolutely will shift further.
I personally would dissolve dolomitic lime in RO water. It takes some agitation and some time, but believe you me, once dissolved that pH will NOT fucking shift!
The best method I've found for driving pH down and keeping it shifted down is to filter through peat. I used to do it for my more delicate wild-caught South American fishes when other methods would kill them. And what kills most quickly is a huge pH bounce, IME (with fish). Getting it shifted down is a pain in the ass, especially if it hasn't been filtered of mineral content at all, because if it hasn't it's going to bounce back up.
Getting pH shifted up is so easy, so incredibly easy, here are three things that you can just keep in the water that will keep it shifted up. and you'll get the added benefit of calcium:
Dolomitic lime (or dolomite, same thing pretty much, but dolomite is prettier to look at).
Crushed coral
Crushed oyster shell
A few hours is a minimum period, but reactions may not have finished at that point. What you might want to do is mix up a half batch the way you usually do it, and mix one up where you adjust, then wait and measure again and see what happens. If the pH is still stable a half hour after you've made adjustments, then you know that your combination is stable and don't have to worry about it so much.I mix whatever I am using that day and bubble it for a few hours and then adjust the ph and feed immediately.
Are you saying wait a half hour or so after I ph? and then readjust after it settles down?