New Grower A PH question

[Misanthrope82]

Ok, budelee. Thanks again for your input.

 

[witchyhour]

Hi, guys. I been growing for a bit, not long, but a little while, and obviously am still learning things here and there.

I have a little question regarding PH.

I've grown indoors before and used tap water with a PH around 6.7 - 6.8.

I'm getting ready to do another indoor grow again. After getting all my equipment ready and whatnot, I decided to test the water I will be using. Disappointingly I saw that the ph was around 5.3 - 5.4. On the low side. It's well water so I would imagine it will fluctuate.

I will be using Fox Farm Ocean Forest soil which supposedly has dolomite lime in it for balancing PH. Also the nutrients I will be using (the General Organics Go Box) states that balancing PH is not necessary.

My question is, am I going to have to worry about adjusting PH levels? That will be another thing I have to learn, but I will if I have to.

Thanks.

Switch to hydro, perfect ph. [emoji106] [emoji2]

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[witchyhour]

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Soil, right? Hydro is lower. [emoji13]

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[budelee]

Yes this is a soil chart,hydro is lower..when i snapped the pic from the net it cropped out the wording/info..

 

[BR549]

@budelee: Just out of curiosity, what made you go with lemon juice instead of vinegar? I want to make sure I'm not missing something.

 

[budelee]

I was using a GH ph up down kit,i ran out,stores were closed,i used what i had and kept using it,i could have used vinegar just grabbed what was closer...as far as my reading/knowledge both are good to use for pH down..and baking soda is what i use for up..sometimes we get snow storms that will shut down stores( not my work tho) for days at a time,this caused me to switch back to the Lucas Formula with just the GH maxi bloom powder as my base, start to finish on my feeds,stores were closed for a week,i used what i had and continued..