g13laze

miracle-gro soil also contains alot of bark which will raise the acidity of your soil over time

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With a surprise quick delivery I got my Milwaukee SM802 pH meter today. After following the directions for calibration I got to work testing my soil mixture.

I have a total of about 8 gallons of this soil mixed up. I had pulled two gallons out and put into one gallon pots. The remaining soil is in a storage container, mostly dry.

Every day I have been watering both of the one gallon pots of soil as if they had plants in them. I did this to test the drainage and to start dissolving the lime.

Following the directions I test both one gallon pots multiple times and got 6.5 pH from the top of the buckets and got 6.4 pH from the bottom of the buckets.

I also tested the rest of the soil that has not been watered and the pH was 5.9. I assume it is reading more acidic because there has been no moisture to start the lime to dissolve.

I feel like I am in good shape when it comes time to transplant into this soil. I hope to do this sometime this weekend.

tripps

Just a hint, if you water them every day you will probably kill them. Most common mistake of new growers in soil is over watering. Trust me, I speak from experience.

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I am a noob but I do know enough to water the plants once the soil is mostly dry. The pots/soil I am referring to in this thread has nothing planted in them. I was doing this to test the soil drainage and pH before I started using it.