Comments on: Water Matters http://rootsandharmony.com/water-matters/ Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:09:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: chris http://rootsandharmony.com/water-matters/comment-page-1/#comment-150 chris Wed, 29 Apr 2009 01:06:11 +0000 http://rootsandharmony.com/?p=85#comment-150 Hey Boke So your nutrients (especially raw nitro, organic blends of bone and blood meals, etc) will definitely darken your water. This does present a possible confusion when reading a PH color key. Remember that the color key is not based on brightness but on hue... i.e. regardless of how dark it is, is it red, orange, yellow, green, blue in hue... if your solution is light enough in color that you are still able to determine the hue and match it, you are safe. Make sure you hold your sample up to some light to get a clear indication of color. The way easier way to deal with it is to just drop the $50 on a digital PH tester, although we rarely have actually seen a need for one. If you can get enough light through the sample to determine its basic hue, then you are good to go, regardless of how dark it is. Hope that helps! - redback Hey Boke

So your nutrients (especially raw nitro, organic blends of bone and blood meals, etc) will definitely darken your water. This does present a possible confusion when reading a PH color key.

Remember that the color key is not based on brightness but on hue… i.e. regardless of how dark it is, is it red, orange, yellow, green, blue in hue… if your solution is light enough in color that you are still able to determine the hue and match it, you are safe. Make sure you hold your sample up to some light to get a clear indication of color.

The way easier way to deal with it is to just drop the $50 on a digital PH tester, although we rarely have actually seen a need for one. If you can get enough light through the sample to determine its basic hue, then you are good to go, regardless of how dark it is.

Hope that helps! – redback

]]> By: Boke http://rootsandharmony.com/water-matters/comment-page-1/#comment-149 Boke Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:46:35 +0000 http://rootsandharmony.com/?p=85#comment-149 In the water article you talk about testing the PH level. I know the article said that to test the Ph water before you mix the nutrient in the water and after you mix the nutrient in right? My question is how do you get a PH reading when you mix your dark nutrient in with the water? ps. Im using general hydropic ph tester In the water article you talk about testing the PH level. I know the article said that to test the Ph water before you mix the nutrient in the water and after you mix the nutrient in right? My question is how do you get a PH reading when you mix your dark nutrient in with the water?

ps. Im using general hydropic ph tester

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