brownredroost
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Hello,
When using Recharge and Mammoth P are you supposed to PH?
Thanks in advance
When using Recharge and Mammoth P are you supposed to PH?
Thanks in advance
Recharge and Mammoth P
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Emilya Green
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Hi @brownredroost and welcome to the forum!
Microbes don't need to be in a specific pH range... the pH is either way too acidic for them to survive or way to alkaline, but as long as the pH of your soil and your fluids are anywhere within the normal range, say between 8.5-4.5, nothing is going to burn up. The only reason we pH to a narrow range, depending on if we are in hydro or soil is so that the nutrients can be activated. The plant doesn't care about pH being in that range and neither does the soil. Manufacturers bind their nutrient products into EDTA chelated bundles so that they can't interact against each other while in the bottles waiting to be used. The nutes are unavailable and inert until they are put into a fluid that is adjusted to the proper pH, and then they break free of their EDTA bonds and become available to the plant. If you are not using synthetic nutes that are locked up in this way, there is no need to adjust pH.
Your Mammoth P and Recharge are microbes... they do not need to be pH adjusted.
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brownredroost
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Thanks for the reply.Hi @brownredroost and welcome to the forum!
Microbes don't need to be in a specific pH range... the pH is either way too acidic for them to survive or way to alkaline, but as long as the pH of your soil and your fluids are anywhere within the normal range, say between 8.5-4.5, nothing is going to burn up. The only reason we pH to a narrow range, depending on if we are in hydro or soil is so that the nutrients can be activated. The plant doesn't care about pH being in that range and neither does the soil. Manufacturers bind their nutrient products into EDTA chelated bundles so that they can't interact against each other while in the bottles waiting to be used. The nutes are unavailable and inert until they are put into a fluid that is adjusted to the proper pH, and then they break free of their EDTA bonds and become available to the plant. If you are not using synthetic nutes that are locked up in this way, there is no need to adjust pH.
Your Mammoth P and Recharge are microbes... they do not need to be pH adjusted.
I am using Strawberry Fields soil and Advanced Nutrients, Sensi Bloom/Grow A and B.
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