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runoff pH/ppm

shockingelk
16 years ago

Last week, I received my first CPs, 7 Saccarina and a VFT.

The rhizomes/roots were placed in a 50/50 mix of milled sphagnum peat and sand wetted with 40 ppm R/O water, the trey method.

Today, I tested the pH of the water they are sitting in and it's approximately 7.0 (I use drops, so accurate within around .25 points).

I tested run-off water that had just passed through, it also was about 7.

Also curiously, the water which they'd been sitting in a week tested at 60 ppm, the runoff from re-drenching them tonight was 140-160 ppm.

Could it be possible my peat was treated so as to neutralize its pH? Should I adjust the pH of the water they're sitting in? Repot in something else?

Thanks!

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