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Sulphuric acid and potassium sulphate in water-useful or useless?

malik.hamza069C78FjQNmalik.hamza069C78FjQN Posts: 5
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Dear gardeners,
I have been mixing Sulphuric acid and potassium sulphate separately in water for my crops and I was wondering if i can add both Sulphuric acid and potassium sulphate together to the same 'batch' of water? Will this be a useless endeavour as it'll render an inert product? Could it be harmful to my crops if both are mixed together in water?
best regards,
Hamza
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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Why would you add Sulphuric acid to water for your plants?
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • malik.hamza069C78FjQNmalik.hamza069C78FjQN Posts: 5
    irrigation water treatment, weed and pathogen control and a few other reasons. 
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    how BAD is your water supply? 
    Mine is, literally , good enough to drink
    Devon.
  • malik.hamza069C78FjQNmalik.hamza069C78FjQN Posts: 5
    haha fair point :). any thoughts on my query? any experience of that?

    Hostafan1 said:
    how BAD is your water supply? 
    Mine is, literally , good enough to drink

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    malik.hamza069C78FjQN said:
    haha fair point :). any thoughts on my query? any experience of that?

    Hostafan1 said:
    how BAD is your water supply? 
    Mine is, literally , good enough to drink

    just bizarre to even think of it. Just fill a watering can from the tap
    Devon.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Are you in the UK?
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I wonder what it's like on spam🤔
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • malik.hamza069C78FjQNmalik.hamza069C78FjQN Posts: 5
    punkdoc said:
    Are you in the UK?
    i'm based in the UK, yes. But this is being done outside the UK, hence, the questionable water quality sadly.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    You’re based in the UK but you do your watering outside the UK? I’m confused. 

    My instinct is to say water+sulphuric acid can only be worse than whatever other source of water you have and sulphuric acid could never be beneficial to soil health.
    Rutland, England
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    That's my gut feeling too. Bad idea to mess with sulphuric acid. It's nasty stuff.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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