- Our soil testing kit comes with all the necessary components for testing. Once you receive the product, you only need to purchase a bottle of pure water (or purified water) from a local store or supermarket. This makes it extremely convenient for users to use.
- 【Designed for Soil pH test】Soil pH specifically affects plant nutrient availability by controlling the chemical forms of the different nutrients and influencing the chemical reactions they undergo. The accurate pH test strips are specially designed for soil pH test.
- 【Easy to use】Quick guide with detail instructions for use. Test tube & droppers are also in the kit, easy for solution preparation, pH test.
- 【Quality & quantity】The pH test strips are stored in the plastic bottle for keeping dry & consistent quality. Enough Test Strips for 200 Soil pH Tests.
- 【Range & scale】The optimum soil pH range for most plants is between 5.5 and 7.5. The soil pH test strip has color range from 4.5 to 9.0, is targeted to nearly all garden soil types, the minimum scale is 0.25.
XLUX Soil pH Tester, Acidity Test Meter, Strips Kit 200 Tests, for Garden Home Lawn Farm Vegetable Yard Compost Outdoor and
£12.99
Description
Product Description
What is soil pH?
Soil pH is a measure of the acidity or basicity (alkalinity) of a soil. Soil pH is considered a master variable in soils as it affects many chemical processes. It specifically affects plant nutrient availability by controlling the chemical forms of the different nutrients and influencing the chemical reactions they undergo. The optimum pH range for most plants is between 5.5 and 7.5.
Specification
Main material: plastic
Plastic test tube size: 11.5 cm/4.5 in
Plastic dropper size: approx. 11.5 cm/ 4.5 in
Color: as pictures shown
Package includes
2 x Bottle (200 soil pH test strips in total)
3 x Plastic Test tube
6 x Plastic dropper
1 x Paper guide
Easy to use
The XLUX Soil pH Test Kit has quick guide with detail instruction and pictures for use. Test tube & droppers are also in the kit. You can easily prepare the soil solution, test soil pH according to the guide.
Our soil testing kit comes with all the necessary components for testing. Once you receive the product, you only need to purchase a bottle of pure water (or purified water) from a local store or supermarket. This makes it extremely convenient for users to use.
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Additional information
| Weight | 140 kg |
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| Dimensions | 9.2 × 7.7 cm |
| Package Dimensions | 16.3 x 9.2 x 7.7 cm; 140 Grams |
| Part number | FT-37-03001 |
| Material type | Plastic |
| Manufacturer reference | FT-37-03001 |
| ASIN | B095Y9FLD7 |
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| Date First Available | 27 May 2021 |
| Manufacturer | Fantan |
gaynor –
Arrived promptly
Pseudonym –
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.
Pat F –
The pH strips used in this test kit do not change colour and do not give any indication of pH when used to test soil pH. A quick test of water from the tap should give a pH of 7 but once again no colour change was noted even when leaving the test strips for some time to develop. The kit is well put together and the instructions are clear, it just the test strips that let it down. Unfortunately this is the most important bit!
Ed M –
Only thing missing was the distilled water.
CurlyT –
Very easy to use
Ralawrence –
The fact one has to buy distilled water to use it. Had it been advised in the description I probably would not have bought it. Disappointed !
S Bruce –
This is a fairly cheap bit of kit. The price isn’t showing as I write this review so I can’t comment on the actual price, but by ‘cheap’ I mean it’s thin plastic tubes, and some fairly weak chemicals. However since it probably only has to do the job a handful of times, it’s adequate for the task.You do need to use distilled water to get accurate results from this test, but distilled water doesn’t necessarily need to be bought- you can distill water at home, there are plenty of tutorials online. That’s what we did, and it’s not especially complex, though it could be seen as a bit of a faff if you just want to get instant results from the kit. It did give us the added bonus of giving our kids a quick chemistry lesson though.The colour isn’t the boldest, but it is at least fairly distinct. The results we got were consistent with what we expected. Our soil is quite clay heavy, and sure enough, we got alkaline pH values, confirming what we thought we already knew. Our garden isn’t especially big, but testing bits of soil from opposite ends of the garden gave fairly consistent results. I don’t think I’d trust the precision of this set for pH values with any decimal places on them, but as a broad measurement to confirm your soil is alkaline and around a 9, I think it’s accurate enough.It might have a bit of a feel of a kids “my first science experiment kit” in the quality, but for a simple bit of investigation when you’ve got a new garden to work with, I do think this does the job.
Rozzy –
I needed to test my soil again. I tested it when we first moved in and found it to be about 4.5 on the pH scale which is very acidic.I grow most things in baskets or troughs using bought compost but my blueberry bushes at the back of the chicken coop haven’t done as well as I would like in the last year or so. I wondered if the soil had changed.I took three samples of soilOne from behind the coop, this used to be the chicken run.One from behind the greenhouse where a huge Christmas tree had recently been cut down.One from the front part of the garden in front of the greenhouse.You need to put the soil up to the 20ml Mark and then fill with distilled water up to the 40ml Mark and shake for 30 seconds and leave them for half to one hour to settle.Then you get some of the liquid and put drops into the two colours on the sticks, I used two sticks for each sample.It was simple to do and the results fairly easy to judge.Apparently I still have acid soil5 behind the coop4.5 behind the greenhouse5.75 in front of the greenhouse.The leaflet explains how to test and is easy to follow but the list of plants that do well in each type of soil are mostly irrelevant, don’t think I’ll be growing pineapples, pecans or tamarind anytime soon.Please note. Distilled water has to be used with this kit.
ButterflyChimes –
Used to find the answer to why a few of my plants were not thriving, showed I needed a different compost mix for rhododendrons etc. Helpful
HY –
I used these test trip to check the acidity of the soil in my hydrangea pots. I grow my hydrangea in pots one is to move around easily and two to have a easier control on the soil pH to get different flower colours. The steps of testing the pH with these strips are not difficult, the most difficult part is to find some distilled water, which apparently it’s not common in supermarket.The colour difference in acidic pH aren’t easy to see. So if you only need a rough idea whether your soil is acidic or alkaline these steps will do. I only want to know whether the soil in the hydrangea pots are acidic or alkaline I didn’t even bother to buy distilled water because I will need to see the pH of the soil based on the water I would use for irrigation. I would then have a rough idea on whether the hydrangea colourant is too little or too strong.