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Reduce Your Concentration
Hydroponic growers adjust the pH of their nutrient solution to around 5.8 to 6.2 this provides the best accessibility to the widest range of nutritional elements.
pH adjuster products are sold in grow shops in concentrated liquid (sometimes powder) form. However, some growers get lazy and add this stuff neat (undiluted) to their nutrient solution. This causes nutritional elements to precipitate out of the solution and therefore become unavailable to your plants. To avoid this, make up a dilute solution of your pH adjusters 1 part pH adjuster to 100 parts water and use this instead.
The weakened concentration of your pH up or down will enable you to safely adjust the pH of your nutrient solution without damaging your nutrients.
Reduce Your Concentration
Hydroponic growers adjust the pH of their nutrient solution to around 5.8 to 6.2 this provides the best accessibility to the widest range of nutritional elements.
pH adjuster products are sold in grow shops in concentrated liquid (sometimes powder) form. However, some growers get lazy and add this stuff neat (undiluted) to their nutrient solution. This causes nutritional elements to precipitate out of the solution and therefore become unavailable to your plants. To avoid this, make up a dilute solution of your pH adjusters 1 part pH adjuster to 100 parts water and use this instead.
The weakened concentration of your pH up or down will enable you to safely adjust the pH of your nutrient solution without damaging your nutrients.