XLUX Soil pH Tester, 200 Strips, 4.5-9.0 for Garden Indoor Outdoor Plants

We use these a lot on our allotment. Very useful to find out how the soil is doing so we grow lovely veggies

Seems to work but tap water can distort results. Distilled water must be used at extra cost.

At last! This test kit works, as opposed to an earlier tried zinc-aluminium single rod electronic tester and a generic litmus paper. The kit includes accessories allowing to collect up to 3 samples of soil, and then complete testing in the comfort of your home or shed. The test requires some deionised, distilled, rain, or at worst bottled water. If the sample is too muddy, it could be difficult to read the colour. I this case use a coffee paper filter or paper towel to filter out the sediment. There is no data stamp on the indicator containers, but they are properly sealed. If one would last a couple of months, the next might survive until the next season.

Bit of a faff on to check ph . Have since purchased a batter operated ph meter which is more convenient

1. Use warm water, and after mixing, place in fridge. This speeds up the process, but even so, ignore the laughable "wait 30 to 60 minutes" as stated in the instructions: my mixes usually take 48 hours to separate. 2. Use one strip with the water alone: this reading can be used to fine-tune the soil strip reading. For example my water gave 6.5 (0.5 acidic), soil 7.2, so the corrected reading is 7.7. You only have to do the water test once: the result isn't going to change. 3. There are two pads per strip. Usually the resulting colour pair can't be exactly matched to those printed on the container, so match each pad separately and take the average. For example my pads were 6.25 and 6.75, averaging to 6.5

just as described

Very good tester that can tell what to put where

Saw a lot of mixed reviews but took a chance on this kit. The reality is that you are trying to measure something quite sensitive and this is science not a cooking recipe. If you take care with the preparation it works fine so for me I got accurate results thus good value. The kit contains everything you need so easy to use.