UncleCannabis
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Thank you for your knowledge. I just checked my ph of my tap water and it is around 8.13. Its really high. When I mix my nutes it brings it all the way to around 4ish. Im not sure watering with 4ph would be a good Thing to do. Maybe its my newbie side that is worried.
I suggest that you forget about the ph of your water for now and focus on the ph of your soil instead. Have you checked your soil ph lately?
When growing in organic soil it's all about the soil and the things that are going on within the soil. Feed the soil correctly (or as best you can within reason) and you won't have to worry much about the plants. You can make quite a few mistakes and still end up with healthy plants.
On the other hand if you are trying to do organic soil gardening (MJ, tomatoes, whatever..) and you have shitty soil conditions for the roots to live in the end result will almost always be unhealthy and sickly plants that don't yield squat no matter what you try to feed them or water them with.
If you're feeding/watering with a solution that has a ph of 4.0ish I think you are running some risk of it causing your soil ph to become too acidic. As I mentioned previously, some organic soils have a tendency to migrate below 6.0 due to the high content of organic matter and one typically needs to make periodic adjustments as time goes along to keep ph levels up over 6.0. I use dolomite lime to do this. If you find that your soil ph is too acidic you could keep doing as you're doing (no changes) and accommodate for the low ph feedings by periodically adding dolomite lime as a top dressing as needed. Or you could always change to a more ph friendly feeding/watering regime. Hydroponics folks would likely recommend using a bit of ph up in your feeding solution but I personally don't care to use that type of stuff in something I plan to smoke. I know that you said that you don't smoke but hopefully you're either pulling a "Bill Clinton" on us, you're into edibles only, or you'll be making a friend who does smoke very happy in the near future with a medicinal donation.
Anyways, I've probably exceeded my bad advise quota for the day so I'm outta' here. Got a big J of Grape of Ape calling my name.