best pH buffer available?

[bongerstonerd00d]

I guess its all in what one is comfortable with. I am sticking with GH pH down powder, it does a great job on my h20. Battery acid or muriatic acid is a touch warm for me to have sittin around in the house. Plus, I get stoned and drop shit and knock shit around all the time, thats all I would need is to spill battery acid all over the fuckin place or worse yet, on ME!:rasta: .......LOL


b0nger

[deftdrummer]

haha, wife comes home: "why is there a huge hole in the carpet? - and what happened to fluffy's hair!?" Were you knocking stuff around in a stoned stupor again?

[bongerstonerd00d]

Deft, you know mah wife, huh ?..........LOL:smokin:


b0nger

[Cyclonite]

Umm acid isn't a PH buffer....buffers are cation elements in the water that take in the acid anions so the PH doesn't change. Thats why is takes so little if you use RO water...very little or no buffering capabilities.

If you want the strongest PH down acid use nitric acid....if you can get your hands on it. Make some from ammonium nitrate and H2SO4. Phosphoric acid is best for plants and its what is used in most PH downs if im not mistaken.

HCL is hydrogen and chlorine...if you want Cl in your plant go for it.

[Cyclonite]

BTW all the acids mentioned are not organic acids....organic just means it has H and C in it.....natural is not organic always, organic is a term used pretty loosely though.

[Cornelius]

but getting back to the original topic, does any one know a good pH buffer? i.e. a substance that will maintain your pH at optimal levels without having to add any acid or base (ph up/down)?

this would make hydro a bit easier to manage without having to buy and automated ph control system.

[Cyclonite]

As far as I know coco coir provides excellent buffering since its natural PH is in the right range. Make sure to flush out with a cal mag solution before use though.

The best application for this is ebb and flow, and drip.