Pm’ed you! Would love to chat
I will get to you Yerba... I am at work and inbetween meetings... getting forum time in as I am able. Yours needed a little bit more than a passing answer.
Ok thanks. I think should mention that I have never given them Cal-Mag. Maybe that right there is the issue, as you've mentioned. I'll grab some today. That said, should I rewater with it? Or wait until the next watering to add? And when you say by 50%, how much is that from zero? What it calls for on the label? I've heard it's hard to overdose a plant with it.
I think that some organic liquid/dry nutes lower the ph of your soil slowly. That’s why I added lime pellets last grow. I think it kept my plants healthier longer into flower.
I can not see that nutes which are used, broken down into salt and basic minerals, and that get flushed out of the soil regularly, could possibly change the base pH of the soil. People need to stop trying to manually adjust their soil... just water with the correct pH every time and you are good... there is no need to adjust anything else.
would be curious where you read this... it is absolutely untrue
And this is true... but what does this have to do with the soil? Nutes are acidic and when added to water near neutral it is going to drive the pH down... this is basic science... but it has nothing to do with the base soil pH.
not that I have ever seen
What usually happens though is that soil with a high peat content drifts toward the acidic over time as the very acidic peat breaks down into its base components... without flushing, that debris can definitely whack up the soil... but that is one of the reasons we flush.
So then, having a soil with a high peat content, it's advisable that I flush it out? You mentioned in an earlier post, that flushing only drains valuable nutes away. I may be mis-remembering. I know my soil is naturally acidic, but I continue to just water with pH corrected water.
And so adding lime pellets to the soil would counteract the peat leaning acidic over time?
If you are growing in a true living soil and you are not using synthetic nutrients you would not need to flush. If you use synthetic nutrients, salt will build up in your soil, and you will need to flush several times during the grow.
yes, they would balance against each other somewhat... until the peat got flushed out and/or the lime broke down and neutralized against the acid. Your band-aid is both unnecessary and temporary.
