HB - Regardless of your water source, you are going to have to adjust the pH of your water each and every time you add it to your soil. Get used to it! pH is really one of the most important factors in growing healthy plants that properly use the nutes you give them, so give pH a real high priority.

Tap water has stuff in it that is beneficial to your plants - trace minerals and such. If you take these things out of the water, you need to replace them with special additives, which is an added expense. There should be a reason for not using tap water. In other words, there is something wrong with your tap water. 8.5 pH is not something wrong, it's something that needs to be adjusted. Anyway, the pH of bottled water is all over the charts - there's nothing constant about it.

The mfgr's website for FloraNova should tell you what kinds of mediums it's good for. There's some real good info about different mediums in the link I gave you above. You really should read Stinky's thread. She has a simple, and cheap, recipe for soil that is a proven winner.

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PharmaCan Reviewed by PharmaCan on . pH/FloraNova Questions Well, I realized it was a waste of money, as well as ignorant on my behalf to buy spring water at a time, for fear of messing with the pH of my own tap water which is very alkaline. Well, I realized it would be easier, and cheaper to just buy the GH Control Kit, that comes with a pH tester and pH up and down and just adjust my own water. I'm also going to be using GH FloraNova Grow and FloraNova Bloom. This is the feeding schedule I will be following: Rating: 5