Soil pH

[fatbuds420]

How important is soil ph?

I heard that when the soil dry's, the ph returns to the original soil ph.

So say u water with 6ph water, as it drys it gows back up (the soil ph is 8) correct?

So this way u can have the plant get all the nutrients it needs

 

[TorturedSoul]

How important is soil ph?

Pretty important, I'd say. For example, some types of plants don't seem to grow well when placed in soil very close to pine trees.

I heard that when the soil dry's, the ph returns to the original soil ph.

This article might be of interest:

EFFECTS OF AIR-DRYING ON THE MEASUREMENT OF SOIL pH IN... : Soil Science

rements (global precision of ± 0.035 pH unit) varied, with the poorest precision value (0.10) being recorded for pHw in field-moist samples of organic horizons (O). For any soil horizon group (O, E, B, C), the pH change attributable to drying was always larger in H2O (up to 0.50 pH unit or 130...

journals.lww.com

Also, there are some interesting comments on this webpage:

Does drought have the potential to cause a drop in pH in mineral...

I have some data which I will submit shortly as part of a publication in which I tentatively attribute the accumulation of un-decomposed organic matter to a drop in pH, possibly due to the...

www.researchgate.net

 

[Emilya Green]

How important is soil ph?

I heard that when the soil dry's, the ph returns to the original soil ph.

So say u water with 6ph water, as it drys it gows back up (the soil ph is 8) correct?

So this way u can have the plant get all the nutrients it needs

You have it exactly right. You right now understand more about pH and how it is used in soil than the majority of growers out there.
So yes, soil pH is VERY important. It is what lets you water at 6.3, where mathematically teh most nutrients are the most mobile, and then let the soil take over to allow a pH drift right up through the entire soil range of pH, picking up each nutrient as it becomes most mobile. It is a good system and the reason soil is engineered to have a base pH up near 6.8 or so...

You mentioned a pH of 8, and that would be a pretty lime based soil, maybe not best suited for growing our plants. Are you sure it is a base pH of 8 or was that a guess?

 

[CannaSeedCollector]

You have it exactly right. You right now understand more about pH and how it is used in soil than the majority of growers out there.
So yes, soil pH is VERY important. It is what lets you water at 6.3, where mathematically teh most nutrients are the most mobile, and then let the soil take over to allow a pH drift right up through the entire soil range of pH, picking up each nutrient as it becomes most mobile. It is a good system and the reason soil is engineered to have a base pH up near 6.8 or so...

You mentioned a pH of 8, and that would be a pretty lime based soil, maybe not best suited for growing our plants. Are you sure it is a base pH of 8 or was that a guess?

What that guy said! ^^^^^

 

[fatbuds420]

You have it exactly right. You right now understand more about pH and how it is used in soil than the majority of growers out there.
So yes, soil pH is VERY important. It is what lets you water at 6.3, where mathematically teh most nutrients are the most mobile, and then let the soil take over to allow a pH drift right up through the entire soil range of pH, picking up each nutrient as it becomes most mobile. It is a good system and the reason soil is engineered to have a base pH up near 6.8 or so...

You mentioned a pH of 8, and that would be a pretty lime based soil, maybe not best suited for growing our plants. Are you sure it is a base pH of 8 or was that a guess?

No. It wasn't a guess, it says it on the package, it's a bio universal. Soil, all i can get rn due to corona sadly. Not an issue tho, I've grown huge girls with the shittiest soil ever lasg year lol

 

[Emilya Green]

Well it is going to have a solid upward drift to it for sure. Like you said, its usable since knowing that you can take advantage of pH adjusting even lower... like 6.1, and really swing through the ranges, solidly hitting the lower numbers where all the heavy metals are most mobile. It should work well... just don't ever try working with it by adjusting your pH to 6.5 all the time... it can easily be seen why that would be a disaster.