Soil mix and general questions

[headshake]

water needs to be pH'd. unless you are talking about reverse osmosis or distilled, those other "filters" don't do crap.

i've used miracle grow just fine, but it's not optimal.


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headshake Reviewed by headshake on 10-20-2010. Soil mix and general questions So I have only grown once before in regular potting soil and used regular liquid ferts and did NOT ph adjust any water (just used filtered water) and surprisingly got 3ozs off my blueberry, 2oz's off vanilla kush and 1.5 ounces off super lemon haze all from jiffy pot to 3gal to 5gal pot. Problem tho was my vanilla kush came out with an insane amount of seeds and my lemon haze turned hermie but not quite as many seeds but terrible taste and not strong. Blueberry thankfully smokes grrrrrreeaaatt Rating: 5

[cypher420]

water needs to be pH'd. unless you are talking about reverse osmosis or distilled, those other "filters" don't do crap.

i've used miracle grow just fine, but it's not optimal.


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Umm it's just one of those brita filters you attach to a fossit. What idealy do I want the ph of the water to be at? I think our city water is around 7.5-8 or something. Kinda high I'm guessing?

[headshake]

Umm it's just one of those brita filters you attach to a fossit. What idealy do I want the ph of the water to be at? I think our city water is around 7.5-8 or something. Kinda high I'm guessing?

you want a pH between 6.3-6.8. 6.3 being ideal.

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[superjay]

you want a pH between 6.3-6.8. 6.3 being ideal.

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at my local supermarket they sell bottled mineral water at a ph of 6.4 so would that be ideal?

[headshake]

at my local supermarket they sell bottled mineral water at a ph of 6.4 so would that be ideal?

that would work, but be careful as to what minerals are in there. and when you feed your nutes are gonna drop your pH if you are using the mineral water then too.

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