This is awesome! Thanks for sharing it
and sorry i havent been around much. Been a bit overwhelmed in life so dipping in and out a bit at the mag and catching up sporadically at times.
Your buds are looking excellent
You asked a while back there about the calcium in your soil and wanted input about corretcing the soil. I’m sorry you;re battling the issue.
You mentioning it was ‘ringing bells’ for me and took me back about 130pages here where we talked about the calcium sources in your soil... Now, I don’t know what you’ve done or not done to the soil since, or even if it’s the same soil now, but...
I honestly don’t claim to be any sort of expert but I’ve read obsessively about this and experimented w my own soil a bit and have recently been studying some very successful recipes and I think the only way to correct your soil would be to re-amend with limestone powder (CaC03, not dolomite) and recook. I think you really need the ca cooked in there. Or to build a new mix with more carbonated calcium sources.
In the meantime, if you want to avoid commercial cal/mag, you can get them calcium with seaweed fertilisers or the DIY cal supplement made from eggshells. If there’s too much Mg it will be locking out Ca. If you can get stinging nettle a tea Made from it it is a great balanced fertiliser.
If it were me I’d be giving a stinging nettle or seaweed fert and seeing if that gets things closer to range, and I’d be planning on reamending the soil.
I may be wrong and you may get results with top dressing dry amendments etc. but my expectation would be that this would take time to get into the soil. Maybe Van and bobrown might have some input for you if you drop in to their threads and ask
