nute color change ph results???

[timdog4]

I use the ph kit with drops and matching the color, and i was wondering if the color of the nutrients would throw this off. I was mixing some nutes in water and it seems like it takes so much more ph up to bring ph up in the nutes as opposed to plain water. If I added that much ph up to plain water it would be thru the roof. I just ordered an oakton pen so I only have to deal with this for another week at most.

 

[KADE]

The reason it goes up so slowly is because the PH scale is logarithmic... like the richter scale.... each time you go up a point it is WAAAAAY bigger then the last.... however.. to go down... it is a lot easier each time u drop a point.

 

[timdog4]

So you dont think the brownish coloring of the nutes in the water throw off the color which throw off results?

 

[KADE]

So you dont think the brownish coloring of the nutes in the water throw off the color which throw off results?

THAT... is a different problem... I always thought the same thing... back in the day when i used litmus paper... (because i was poor and couldn't afford a meter) I never had a problem... even if teh water was a lil dark because of the bat guano.