I always have to ph up my well water
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I use RO because if I don’t it’ll turn everything White. I also add a little bit of hydrogen peroxide. And if I have rainwater I’ll use that
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Thank you @Oderus @Low @SausageMahoney @StevOz @Covertgrower @PogueMahone @Retiredoldguy @Mntmannw @Crazy81 @DaveySprocket for sharing your current water situations!
It’s nice to know everyone basically has to pH up and down all the time and it’s just a thing. 
I suppose I could go out and scoop snow too, I hadn’t really thought of doing that either. Man y’all are so dang helpful!
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Fun fact. Flouride is a derivative of flourine, a heavy metal toxin. Since the 1800’s flouride was used to suppress overactive thyroid. It is a known thyroid suppressant. There is minimal evidence flouride can be beneficial as a topical to prevent tooth decay. There is widespread evidence flouride in large amounts can actually lead to tooth decay. Zero evidence ingesting flouride is good for you in any way at all.
Levothyroxine is the 4th most prescribed medication in the world i believe
RO is the only way to go if you are in city water source. It also filters out flouride.
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@Oderus That’s some very interesting information! And I’m not one bit surprised!
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Using Advanced Nutrients perfect pH doesn’t require using pH Up or Down and is not recommended. @lostgirl uses AN and never checks ph and uses tap I believe. I also use Advanced Nutrients but I check pH anyway
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You’re correct when utilizing Advanced Nutrients you have what’s considered the pH perfect system. This is simply chelation. You never and I repeat never adjust the pH with a chelated nutrient. You will end up offsetting the chelation and potentially screwing up the pH in your soil. Feel free to check your pH with Advanced Nutrients but it’s really irrelevant as your nutrients have uptake from levels as low as 4.0 to 10.0 and anything in between regardless of what the pH says.
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Probably more information than you require but here
HS1208/HS1208: Understanding and Applying Chelated Fertilizers Effectively Based on Soil pH
Basically chelation is helpful in preventing certain macro and micro-nutrients from precipitating out of solution and becoming unavailable for root uptake. Chelates are organic compounds that kinda embed the ions and keep them available in the soil solution. Microbial activity will breakdown the organic compounds and will release the micro-nutrients. Think of slow-release aspirin, it is a similar mode of action.
Fertilizer companies have been using this technology for some time. One technique uses a biodegradable coating to form different thicknesses on fertilizer pellets. The thicker the coating, the longer it takes to breakdown.
I take a different approach, I endeavor to feed my plants with as much leaf compost and native soils that I can mixed mix with a half gallon of my previous grows soil and a bag of Promix HP. I mix it in a 30 gallon tote. I use Happy Frog dry fertilizers. I am not a huge fan of liguid fertilizers, they are the equivalent of fast foods.
I haven’t pH’d in ages.
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You are killing for a newbie. Better than me I must say. Looking good you are almost there. You’ll have green for St Patrick’s Day green 
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Beautiful job @Krista 
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Outmotherfrigginstandin My Sister!!!
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Yesssss!!! Drooling over here 
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Do you have runoff numbers for that one plant? Something’s off, perhaps potassium, but not quite sure.
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They’re getting close to the end I think…
I fed them tonight so I guess we’ll see if that helps or makes it worse
I’m in soil and there’s probably not much time left so maybe I’d be better off just giving water for the remaining time that’s left and not worrying about it?
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Definitely getting close 
if it was me at this point of the game and it only being the one plant, I’d give her water and let her ride. Great job getting them to this point!
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