• Jay
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    201 year ago

    Which also suck. My daughter bought one, and when I stick it into a glass of water it measures about 5 on a scale of 10. (1 being dry, 10 being wet.)

    Apparently I could use more water in my water?

    • @Creddit
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      271 year ago

      Your water probably wasn’t conductive enough. Try adding some salt to raise the ppm and it’ll read correctly. Wet soil is way more conductive than pure water.

      • Jay
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        111 year ago

        Just tried, and with about 2 teaspoons of salt in a half cup of water it reads about 7, or just at the end of the “moist” but not quite “wet.”. So better, but I think the meter just isn’t all that accurate. (I don’t think she paid much for this thing anyway… or at least I hope not.)

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        Almost any salt will work, actually. It could be table salt or any NPK salt that is used as fertilizer.

        So, if there is a farmer that is really pissing you off, dump several hundred tons of NaCl on his fields. Nutrient spot tests might get temporarily fooled and everything will also die.