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Luster Leaf Rapitest Mini Soil pH/Moisture Tester #1817

Luster Leaf Rapitest Mini Soil pH/Moisture Tester #1817
From Luster Leaf

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Product Description

The Rapitest® Mini pH/Moisture Tester is an economical way to determine the pH level in your soil and also the moisture content. Instantly gives you the acidity of the soil which enables you to alter the soil conditions for optimum growing conditions. Instantly tells you when to water your plants. Instructions are included with each Mini pH/Moisture Tester for flowers, shrubs and vegetable plants and the watering needs for over 100 plants. No battery required. Please visit us, gardenharvestsupply


Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #11427 in Home Improvement
  • Brand: Luster Leaf
  • Model: 1817
  • Dimensions: 1.50" h x 2.00" w x 9.00" l, .22 pounds

Features

  • An economical way to test for moisture and pH levels in the soil.
  • Instructions and charts with the watering needs for over 100 plants and pH needs of over 50 plants.
  • Knowing the pH level and moisture your plants receive help improve results from your gardening.
  • Designed for simplicity of use with accurate results
  • Simply select what you would like to measure, insert the meter into the soil, and take a reading.

Customer Reviews

Indispensable Gardening Tool5
Extension agents will tell you "Fertilize the crop, not the soil." Good advice if you're using chemical fertilizers. As an organic grower, I believe "Feed the soil, and the soil will feed the plants." Either way, you need to keep up with soil pH and organic matter content.

This great little meter may not be laboratory grade, but it is accurate enough for a quick check on your soil's lime requirements and organic matter content (by way of its relative moisture retention.)

Periodic soil testing is good practice. Frequent spot testing with this inexpensive meter is a gardening breakthrough!

a piece of...1
This meter sucks. I don't know how anyone gave it a 5 star review. I put it in water mixed with OJ and it is telling me that the mixture has a PH of 7. I stick it in my soil... PH of 7. So orange juice isn't acidic I guess? OR THE METER IS A PIECE. Everything it touches is PH neutral... yeah right.

Not to mention the moisture aspect of the meter. It basically is either "dry" or "wet". There is no in between with this device. I can tell when soil is wet... its HOW wet I am interested in. I'd be happy even with a "dry" "moist" or "very wet" but every time I stick this in my soil the needle goes fully to the right (indicating wet) even when the soil is pretty dry.

If you buy this product after reading my review you should also purchase a hammer to help knock the stupid out of your head. I'm a physicist... and this is the worst ph tester I have ever seen.

About as accurate as pouring chemical on your hand and determining the PH by the burn it causes.

Wacks self with hammer1
Agree with Mr. Moore, thing is stuck on ph 7. Have tried Diet Pepsi (ph 3.2) and milk (ph 6.3) and it doesnt budge. Milk does show a "C" on the moisture meter.