This depends on the soil, if it’s nutrient rich soil, you’ll have a higher PPM starting out. Ph going in should be 6.2-6.5.
Edit I missed Shaggy’s response.
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Buy whatever the instructions for operation if your device requires. I use Bluelabs and I buy my solution like this, a bottle of 4.0 and 7.0 I test when I havent used the pen for a while and when I use it a lot. So really, when I wanna kniw its acurate.b
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Don’t think you can do that with those meters. They calibrate to 6.86 and 4.01 (and 9.18 though not needed for our application).
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Ok I think I can find the same brand as I got I believe I saw it thanks
I read someone on here said they used meters that were supposed to be calibrated to the 6.86 and what not. But they bought the 7 solution. I guess long story short, you can, just gotta know the difference of .14 and keep that in mind basically.
Now, I didn’t do it, but the logic seems legit. Lol. Just more work.
Lol that would confusee way to much no smoking before that haha I’ll just get the right stuff
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Yea, I would too. Lol.
As you get close to 5.8 or 6.0 it may be further off than that though.
bluelab is the way! Master.
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True. I didn’t think of that. Like I had said, I read it. Never tried. I ended up just getting the apera ph20. Gonna use it my first time tonight.
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Yea, if you can afford it! Lol. One day I’d love to get a blue lab and have a single meter. Lol.
That’s the one I use. Going to have to get another. After 2 years it won’t calibrate to 4.0 anymore.
Right I was checking out bluelab I found one for like $90 seemed pretty good and had great reviews
Hopefully by then I can get a single meter that’s tds and ph. Right now I’m trying to figure out how to use it. Gonna YouTube it in a little bit I think when I use it.
I haven’t seen one that cheap. If you can afford it, I’d get it. They say they last forever. Aperanis like 2 or 3 years, and the others are like a couple months to a year. From my reading around and asking opinion on here.
You may want to get a bigger bottle of 4.0. You want to pour some in your cap to store it and you do run out of it after a bit.
I heard you can just store it dry and get the 3m kcl. Have you tried to use the 3m kcl to get it to recalibrate to 4.0?
And I’ve also heard from a few people a little distilled water in the lid you’re good for storage too.
I can’t find that paper but I think it’s changed now. Maybe I have a newer model.
And distilled water is different then purified. Lol.