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[Baron Von Blurple]

Using this method for slurry test gave me a ph of 7.43

Here at post 40 is how I made @farside05 Canadian version of Faux Mix, which shall be called Praux Mix in Canada, copyright pending.

How to - Preparing a Soil Slurry

• Baron Von Blurple
• Nov 14, 2019

Learn the proper way to prepare a soil slurry to test the pH/EC/TDS of your soil.

 

[InTheShed]

Oof! This info might help, since amending the substrate is tough to do with a plant in it:

"Some types of fertilizers can help to acidify the soil and most of them are safe to apply. Acidifying fertilizers include ammonium sulfate, diammonium phosphate, monoammonium phosphate, urea, and ammonium nitrate. Read the label on the fertilizer bag to determine if it is an acidifying fertilizer."

Source

 

[Baron Von Blurple]

Aluminum sulfate which is quick ?...but aluminum turns me off.

or

Elemental sulfur which is slow....but no aluminum

 

[InTheShed]

Iron sulfate was listed as quick.

 

[Baron Von Blurple]

Oof! This info might help, since amending the substrate is tough to do with a plant in it:

"Some types of fertilizers can help to acidify the soil and most of them are safe to apply. Acidifying fertilizers include ammonium sulfate, diammonium phosphate, monoammonium phosphate, urea, and ammonium nitrate. Read the label on the fertilizer bag to determine if it is an acidifying fertilizer."

Source

If I recall, Megacrop slightly drifts the alkaline direction...no?

 

[InTheShed]

I don't believe it would over the length of any single grow. Any buffers would take care of a potential shift over that short a time period I would think.

 

[Baron Von Blurple]

I don't believe it would over the length of any single grow. Any buffers would take care of a potential shift over that short a time period I would think.

Would not the lime I added to the peat start to lose its buffering in the near future?

 

[InTheShed]

Not sure when the near future is, but the ProMix rep only mentioned buffer depreciation in terms of reuse of the HP product, rather than during the life of the grow. Some of my plants went over 200 days and didn't show signs of nute deficiencies.

 

[Baron Von Blurple]

Im thinking I might drop off a 5 gallon bucket at Tim Hortons (Canadian coffee shop) and see if they would be nice enough to fill it with spent grounds instead of throwing them out. Then work that in as best I can.

 

[InTheShed]

"There's a myth that coffee grounds (2-0-0) are a quick fix for lowering soil pH. Most of the organic acids in coffee are water-soluble, and flush out into the brew. Coffee grounds have a pH around 6.8, close to neutral, so they won't do much to lower pH. They do add a little nitrogen, so they can help reduce pH over time, just like manure or compost.

If you need to drop soil pH more quickly, try watering your plants with leftover (cold) coffee, diluted 50-50 with water. This works especially well for houseplants and container vegetables."

Source

 

[MrSauga]

Aren't coffee grounds mostly N based?

Coffee grounds are approximately 1.45 percent nitrogen. They also contain magnesium, calcium, potassium, and other trace minerals.

 

[Backlipslide]

Go for a coffee run while your at it bro! I’ll take a double double, and a raspberry filled. I’ll get you your two toonies, and a loonie

 

[Baron Von Blurple]

"There's a myth that coffee grounds (2-0-0) are a quick fix for lowering soil pH. Most of the organic acids in coffee are water-soluble, and flush out into the brew. Coffee grounds have a pH around 6.8, close to neutral, so they won't do much to lower pH. They do add a little nitrogen, so they can help reduce pH over time, just like manure or compost.

If you need to drop soil pH more quickly, try watering your plants with leftover (cold) coffee, diluted 50-50 with water. This works especially well for houseplants and container vegetables."

Source

Im wondering if the 4 gallons of just plain tap water I dumped on each plant has anything to do with that soil slurry reading. The ph of my tap water is just over 8.

Anyways if one can dump diluted coffee on a plant, had I known, I would have dumped 4 gallons of ph'd to 6.0 ish water on them yesterday. But again that gets into the talk of the fertilizer and the alkalinity of my tap water to influence it. If that made sense to you....I smoke you know.

 

[Baron Von Blurple]

Go for a coffee run while your at it bro! I’ll take a double double, and a raspberry filled. I’ll get you your two toonies, and a loonie

Roger that...sausage and egger too?

 

[InTheShed]

Im wondering if the 4 gallons of just plain tap water I dumped on each plant has anything to do with that soil slurry reading.

Assuming you did the test with distilled water on reasonably dry soil, I'd say no. Any other variables added to the mix would return unreliable results.

I thought you did the soil clearing in October.

 

[Baron Von Blurple]

it was distilled....reasonably dry?...not so much.

I did a reset in October....I did another last night. 4 gallons each

 

[InTheShed]

Ohhhh...that changes things! Run it again when it dries out and see what you get.

 

[Baron Von Blurple]

That should be a week....

 

[InTheShed]

Those hard-sided pots!

 

[Baron Von Blurple]

Those hard-sided pots!

My hempy pots with the speed gills...