kronicking
420 Member
Hi, I am wondering if anyone can help me understand. Why would you want to use dolomite lime if you correctly ph your water. Wouldn't it just cause issues by raising the ph? Also why would someone want their ph to be 7. Isn't that high? I feel like dolomite lime was causing me problems because I did a slurry test of my sunshine mix #4 and it came out at a high ph when I had my water correctly ph'd. So I decided to make it a little more acidic than normal (5.7 ph instead of 6.2 ph) and slurry tested first and found it came to 6.2 ph so I watered to runoff with the 5.7 ph water and the runoff came out at 6.2 ph and my plants seem to be doing a lot better. They used to get what looked like nutrient deficiencies and nutrient burns.