Growing medicinal plants means paying attention to nutrients, water, and light. Getting the balance right amongst these essential ingredients produces a bountiful harvest— right? There is one more significant factor for big beautiful flowers: pH. Adding a pH meter into your medicinal plants tool kit helps you stay on top of normal pH fluctuations in both soil-based and hydroponics systems.
Why is pH Important when Growing Medicinal Plants
Medicinal plants prefers soil, or a medium, that is slightly acidic. If the pH of the root zone, is not within the correct range, your plant will not be able to absorb the nutrients it needs to grow healthily.
If the pH of the medium is off balance, your plant will suffer with stunted growth, and nutrient deficiencies. It is crucial to ensure the medium is always within the right range, and the best way to do this is with a good reliable ph meter.
Different mediums will need a different level pH. Hydroponics and coco prefer a more acidic medium than plants grown in soil. It is important know which pH range you are aiming for, and how to keep it there.
pH in Hydro
Hydroponics is a method of growing plants, without soil. This can be growing plants in a nutrient solutions, rockool, coco, clay pellets etc.
When growing medicinal plants in hydroponic setups, it is important to make sure the pH of your feed, and the medium or reservoir, is always between, 5.8, and 6.2.
Letting the pH “swing” between these levels will allow your plant to access all of the nutrients in the medium. A medicinal plant in veg, will prefer slightly more acidic mediums than a plant in flower. But only by a little. Keep vegetating plant around 5.8 pH, and keep flowering plants within 5.8 and 6.0. As long as you are providing your plant with the correct level of nutrients, it will be happy throughout its life cycle if you keep the pH at 5.8.
Best pH Meters for Medicinal plants: Durable, Accurate, and Measure More
For those just starting to grow medicinal plants, simple is best. Choose a pH pen that is durable, waterproof, and easy to calibrate. You don't need to get bogged down with numbers as soon as you get started. For any of the cultivators who thrive with data, invest in an option covering more than just pH. The more you know about the grow environment, the more subtle adjustments you can make, and ultimately, the better.
Here are three best PH meters:
ECO Farm High Precision 0.01 LCD Digital PH Value Test Pencil Meter
- ECO Farm portable PH meter is the ideal test kit for water, hydroponics.
- Remove the protective cap and immerse the PH tester electrode in the solution and press the button to be measured. More convenient than litmus test paper.
- Larger lcd display can fast and accurate to read.
- Pocket size, lightweight, high quality.
- With automatic temperature compensation (ATC). Adjust to water temperature and give pH reading almost instantly.
- Lightweight and pocket size, easy to carry. Fast response - pH tester has a sensitive electrode sensor, it only takes a few seconds to stable the reading and get the result out of it.
ECO Farm New 4 in 1 TDS PH Meter PH/TDS/EC/Temperature Meter Digital Water Quality Monitor Tester
- High precision and fast response.
- Adopts the digital screen display with backlight, which is more clear and convenient to read data.
- Compact pen-shape design, lightweight, you can test water anywhere to get the purest water.
- Large LCD screen to display the result, easy to read with high precision.
- Apply in water sources, hydroponics, and other water systems.
ECO Farm 5 in 1 C-100 TDS /EC/ SALT/ S.G./ Digital Water Quality Temperature Monitor
- Conductivity: ECO Farm 5-in-1 water quality meter can measure TDS/EC/S.G/seawater specific gravity/temperature. The measurement range is large and wide and can measure freshwater salinity and sea salt.
- This product can detect the salinity of edible salt. At the same time, it can detect the salinity of seawater. Food salinity measuring range: 0.00-25.00%, seawater salinity measuring range: 10.1-200.0ppt.
- Portable TDS meters can be carried anywhere
- Measurement Range: 0 to 10000us/cm 10.01-19.99ms 20.1-400ms /cm, Resolution: 1us/cm, 0.1ms /cm. Accuracy: ±2% of the reading
- [TDS]: measurement range: 0-1000ppm, 1000ppm to 10000ppm, 10.1-200.0 PPT (automatic range selection), Resolution: 1ppm.ters can be carried anywhere to measure water quality such as tap water, RO system water, aquarium, seawater, pool water.
- Measurement Range: 0 to 10000us/cm 10.01-19.99ms 20.1-400ms /cm, Resolution: 1us/cm, 0.1ms /cm. Accuracy: ±2% of the reading
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