Hard water: PH 7.25 Rainwater wash? Stored Rainwater now has PH of 4 clueless How

[Nander]

I seem to have a lot of trouble with our well water. It seems to lock up nutrients because my plants end up being pale green in short order even when I feed them. Also there is a white and yellow crust that forms on the top of my promix/foxfarm soil that is hard water deposits.

Thinking I could store rainwater, I collected springtime's first rains and stored it in milk jugs and two liter bottles that I rinsed out. I measured the PH of the nearly 8 month old water, and the PH was 4!

I have no idea if a PH of 4, something that low would be good to water my plants with. They are in soil, and have been watered with hard water for some time. Could it harm them? That's my main question.

When I put the water into storage under my porch it had a PH of 6.5 I have no idea how it got down to 4.

 

[Opm]

I use water that comes off my dehumidifer when I can. PH 4 will shock your plants and cause other lockouts.

 

[Nander]

Well I'm glad I ph'ed it before I watered every plant with hard water deposits. I only flushed the one plant with the worst deposits with the ph 4 water. But I am also hoping that it might flush out all those hard water deposits. We will see how it goes.

 

[mrhorticulture]

buy bottles of ph up and ph down and ajust to 6.8

 

[Silicity]

rainwater collects pollutants during its time in the clouds and while it falls, i do not recommend giving your plants things that will kill them in nature. also rainwater is naturally acidic due to pollutants.

 

[hexthat]

[h=2]Hard water: PH 7.25 Rainwater wash? Stored Rainwater now has PH of 4 clueless How [/h]

rainwater collects pollutants during its time in the clouds and while it falls, i do not recommend giving your plants things that will kill them in nature. also rainwater is naturally acidic due to pollutants.

Chem like sulfur hexafluoride, selenium hexafluoride, and others like barium, aluminum salts, polymer fibers, thorium and silicon carbide are all found in rain water.... damn retarded governments giving us cancer.

yes rain water has been changing the ph of soil in California effecting the agricultural crops

 

[applepoop1984]

fix your ppm first. get a ppm tester anything over 180 ppm is bad you want your water under 50 ppm. make the mr clean reverse osmosis filter they are cheap and filters are cheap. it should bring ti down to 15-6 ppm. ph to keep your soil from 5.9 to 6.5 ph