Donāt use vinegar or baking soda. Itās not the right chemistry.
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Goodmornin Terps n OG fam hope u all have a good morning I pH my last clones in the bucket they turned out fine my water is city I smell chlorine bleach etc is that not good for my plants Iām thinking I might need to get one of boogie blue filters what u guys think
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We are talking about adjusting the ph of water for plants not adjusting the ph of soil itself. It takes very little to adjust the ph of water.
Personally I just use up and down to adjust but some like to use everything natural/organic.
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Yah the problem with acetic acid is that itās not a plant nutrient. Once it interacts with the calcium in the soil, a precipitate forms thatās not a plant nutrient. Add enough, and itās a real problem.
puts on his agriculture hat
The ph in the soil is determined by the amount of calcium present. So in the natural world, moisture builds up in the soil and creates anaerobic conditions, which lead to soil microbes stripping out the calcium and lowering the ph. In the agriculture world, there are two basic methods. chemical where you add sulfates or organic where you add sulfur and the population of bacterium in the soil changes into sulfate producers and create the sulfates that acidify the soil. The sulfates react with the calcium and make it available to the plant, lowering the ph.
Now, youāre thinking to yourself, but weāre using phosphoric and nitric acid. Right, those go into hydro systems and medium systems. Donāt go outside and acidify with nitric/phosphoric.
Soā¦ I go outside, and the plants are dying from a high ph. I can slam the ph in 15min by adding the sulfates. Thatās not gonna last. So I add handfuls of sulfur pellets as well, so over time the ph is maintained, due to the fact that outside the ph will try to rise again to the ph of the surrounding soil.
Yikes! I wrote a book.
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Either that or hope its chlorine and not chloramineā¦ and let the water sit out for 24 hours before using
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77 today. A little warm.
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Not as bad as you think. Yes, too much isnāt that good for you? I donāt believe. But if you let it sit out at least 24 hours it will calm down some. I actually donāt have a problem using tapwater. The bleach does help in my opinion with algae and stuff like that. I start my seeds and regular tapwater. I donāt pH or anything. Even the first couple of wateringās is right out of the tapwater.
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Gonna be 80 f here today
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Motherfuckers. LMAO. That thoroughly got me 100%ā¦
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I swear youāre the only 1 that admitted it lol
Goodmorning brother 
@Couchlocked
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Ok. It got me, too.
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Honesty is the best policy! 
Its that or they may have lied to meā¦ not sure hmmmm 
Seems like i was in trouble shortly after being honestā¦ hahaha 
Awesome I do fill my jugs an let them sit for 24hrs or longer thank u for that information
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Jugs w small tops? Or jugs like open 5 gallon buckets? Air matters hereā¦ @Cummings420
Milk jugs gallon jugs some sit for weeks I have so many lol
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Id think itāll take longer with the smaller openingā¦
Just keep that in kind broā¦ but i still say just grab 1 of those boogie filtersā¦
Letting water sit out doesnāt do anything anymore as the chlorine added isnāt chlorine hydrochloride itās chloramine and itās molecularly bound to the water molecule it needs a kdf 85 catalytic carbon filter to remove the chlorine bond
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Those boogie and the copies are a great all-in-one simple option for removing chloramine you can also get a dual 10x2 1/2 whole house filter setup on Amazon for $62 and then you need about $50 of filter to put in it 40 bucks for the catalytic carbon in about 10 bucks for the pre-filter
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Good morning @Terpsnpurps and all!
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Morning, Terpenstein
(Thats Terpen-STEEN).
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