Soil Ph or water?

[stinkyattic]

Hello! first of all I hope everyone having a wonderful day

Why thank you, I hope yours is also a joy!

As far as growing in soil, how do you monitor the Ph?

It's easiest to monitor RUNOFF. When you flush, or even feed to the point where there's water coming out the drain holes, collect some and do a quick check on it.
You don't HAVE to evap off chlorine really.
Also it helps to start with a buffered soil with plenty of humus in it... link in my sig has info.

I already have a Milwaukee SM802 meter which would have been perfect for hydro, but since that's prolly not the way this will go I don't know if that will still work. I mean it will for the water but I don't know about the soil (if that even has to be checked, and if so, how?)

Oh oops I should have left this with the last bit of the question but any accurate pH meter will do since you are testing water either way- the soil pH meters are a bit cheesy....

Also what is the best soil? the stuff without nutes? I have heard to stay away from miracle grow and those kinds...right? but wouldn't have a clue as to mixing the right amount of nutes in soil.

Until the plnat has 5 nodes, NO NUTES from any source including soil. MG is pretty chemical-y but the MG organic is not too bad in a pinch if you add a bunch of perlite to it, because you ARE going to need to flush at some point.
Don't try to mix in ferts in the soil unless you have a commitment to an organic regimen- your whole approach will be quite different.