Oh right so they guy at the hydro shop was tlaking runnish then?
I see where he read that. Growell.co has a PDF that's a real official-looking instruction sheet. It's still wrong, and it's not from the maker of your soil product, either. Some goof in their sales department probably put that together.

i have a cheap ph reader the one you stick 2 rods down into the ground
Don't trust that thing. They work better as rectal thermometers than pH or moisture meters.

Really, I would be hesitant to change anything suddenly or drastically at this point. Whatever you're doing is clearly working for you, so far...

pH 8.0 is awfully high, if it really is 8.0... (kinda doubt it)


EDIT. Irydium, please type slower. I can't keep up with you. Besides, my keyboard melted at 4:28...:stoned: