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When the amount of alkalinity in your source water hasn’t been measured and is then used to mix your nutrient
solution - even with a properly pH balanced nutrient reservoir - your plants can suffer from a continuous build up of
alkalinity that will silently sneak up on you and quickly raise your growing mediums pH, locking out your plants vital
elements, and hijacking you from your crop’s true harvest potential.
stability problems in your reservoir
and growing medium, substantially
decreasing your yields.
In fact, farmers who have to
irrigate their field crops and have
alkalinity in their water supply
have to continuously inject different
types of acids - depending
on what the farmer is trying to
accomplish with the crop and soil -
into their irrigation lines to counter
balance their alkalinity. An easy
way to think of alkalinity is pH up.
Unfortunately a very bad form of
pH up. Once alkalinity is neutralized,
fertilizer is then injected into
the lines.
Here’s something to think about,
depending on what crop is being
grown, the fertilizer being injected
will be balanced with the correct
cation to anion ratios for that crop’s
soil pH requirement. If they need
to lower their soil’s pH they’ll use a
fertilizer that has more cations than
anions. And if they need to raise
the soil’s pH they will use a fertilizer
with more anions than cations.
We’ll go over this more in the nutrient
section.
And then there’s the subject of
water hardness. Shouldn’t you be
concerned about that? Well, it’s
important not to confuse water
hardness with the alkalinity of water.
These are two different things.
Here’s The Difference:
“Hardness” is the measure of the
combined concentration of insoluble
calcium and magnesium in
the water, not the presence of
the carbonates or bicarbonates
mentioned earlier.
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