Ok so I calibrated the blue lab, so it turns out Gen hyd. Ph drops(two different bottles) read the water ok actually pretty close to right on track with the blue lab but... I watered ALL the different soils I had with ph'd 8.7 distilled water with equilibrium, and guess what!! The Ph drops read 5.0 EVERYTIME!! but the blue lab is ranging between 6.4-7.0 right on the money now being that I was watering with higher Ph it tells me the soil may be a little low but its not my problem... the drops were as I said they ARE accurate as far as testing water but as soon as water hits soil then drops bam it doesn't read anything but acidic!?? So the soils in the grow are actually close to ideal randing throughout the 6's but they had to have been low as I was watering them Ph up more a while now, however due to all the insecticide watering and trying to pb the water guess what's up now!?? Lol we have mold through all the soil with current plants... so... as much as I hate to think it I'm gonna transplant again with my fingers crossed and if they make it amazing if not it'll kill me but I will be sprouting the back up beans( as I do have a decent many more of all my strains) and hopefully either way next week ill be back on track and in good conditions, I'm halfway through a light 5 bucket rdwc set up ill post on later. But for now with ALL THE CRAZY HELL I've been through with this issue I'm hoping that aside from me this can help SOMEONE!! LOL anyways for future reference if some one could just help me with this one basic principle... now that I have accurate readings... for Max plant growth and nutes absorption, before watering what should I be doing to know were to Ph my in going water to not shock roots?? Should I be taking a soil sample and testing it and adjusting water to that? Just sticking the meter in the soil? Or just watering at 6.8ish and adjusting each upcoming water to the previous runoff results? Any advice would be amazing!! Thanks everyone for the help much appreciated and ill be on to hopefully a happy log for all to enjoy!!!

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