Grower13
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I keep four 5 gallon buckets of water for my growing(soil)...... well I was reading about everybodies climbing PH on a hydro thread....... it got me to thinking about my PH going up while sitting in the buckets waiting to be used..... so I've been checking it........ I have 1 water bucket mixed with flowering nutes...... I have 1 water bucket with veg nutes mixed....... and 2 buckets with water and medium cal/mag added about half the time....... I use tap water........ I let it sit and air out for a day or two before adjusting my PH...... my water is about 7.5 out of the tap....... I use GH liquid PH down to lower my PH...... it takes about half or less to adjust my water as the instructions suggest it takes...... well much to my surprise the PH in my sitting doing nothing buckets climbs...... I'll adjust the water to 6.3 to 6.5 and water in couple days I'd get ready to water I check my PH and and it is at 6.8 or 7.0....... well hit me in the head with a brick........ I would have never thought it........ is this normal? I'm going to keep lids on them and see if my PH stuff is evaporating off my water left uncovered......... SO...... again Is this Normal?