Living organic soil from start through recycling CONTINUED...

[Coba]

I don't remember how I got that conversion ... grams to tsp. But, FatherEarth is spot on there ... 1g of 200x to a cup of water makes aloe ... then use a 1/4 cup of that per gallon of water

or just a 1/4 cup of pure aloe to a gallon of water.

i works as a good cloning gel too.

remember the good stuff in it degrades fast too so, storing any leftovers is useless.

 

[FatherEarth]

basically 1.5 tsp is 1 gram of the 200x.
225 ml is about 199 grams of h20.
This is like the regular strength stuff in the bottle.
1/4 of a cup of this mix is what to add to 1 gallon of h20.

My 2

 

[FatherEarth]

all leftovers should be used as a foliar right away... I mix it with 1/2 cup coconut water per gallon, water in or use as foliar. You can see the difference overnight

 

[The Dragon]

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[FatherEarth]

The long awaited "Organic Terrorists" award. Given to growers that 'Dro boys fear.
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Id rather be in the Microbe Mafia. Terrorists are so underpaid and never see the rewards or the respect.

Microbe Mob

"We'll make you an offer you cant refuse."

 

[Microbeman]

Id rather be in the Microbe Mafia. Terrorists are so underpaid and never see the rewards or the respect.

Microbe Mob

"We'll make you an offer you cant refuse."

OR

We'll make you an offer you can re-use

 

[FatherEarth]

OR

We'll make you an offer you can re-use

'The Don' himself just coined the phrase...

 

[Coba]

Id rather be in the Microbe Mafia. T'sts are so underpaid and never see the rewards or the respect.

Microbe Mob

"We'll make you an offer you cant refuse."

Yea, I have trouble typing the "T" word into the ether of the cloud nowadays anyways ...

The Microbe Mafia has a ring to it doesn't it.

 

[The Dragon]

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[The Dragon]

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[FatherEarth]

Hey dragon,

have you reversed any males in search of genetic qualities to pass to the progeny?

 

[Microbeman]

Dragon; I love the poster. May I use it?

[google; The Logical Gardener]

 

[The Dragon]

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[FatherEarth]

Dragon, I plan to use GA to reverse males as it seems to be a good non toxic option. Thanks for sharing.

FE

 

[The Dragon]

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[Coba]

I couldn't help myself and just felt compelled to promote our cause with humor.
If you can't laugh at yourself then whats the point?

 

[Payaso]

Kitty waiting for a drink of water, no?

LOVE how this thread has come alive again!

The power of recycling is within this thread!

 

[Coba]

Here's an interesting article I just found on the effects of lime in our container gardens...

Understanding Plant Nutrition: Limestone, Calcium And Magnesium

I'll attempt an abstract,

... Research at Michigan State University tested the effect that a dolomitic limestone had on pH and calcium concentrations for the first four weeks after mixing...

It was shown that the reactive fraction of the limestone had little effect on root-medium calcium concentrations, even as the limestone continued to react. It appears that once the calcium from the reactive limestone is bound to the peat, it is not released back into the soil solution under most conditions. Since nutrients must be soluble to be taken up by the plant, the bound calcium does not influence calcium nutrition, either in the short term (mixing to stable pH) or the long term (stable pH till the end of the crop).

The high-residual lime treatment contained a dolomitic lime with a large residual fraction.
When the acidic NS (nutrient solution)was used, both media and shoot-tissue calcium concentrations were significantly higher in plants grown in media containing the high residual lime fraction compared to those grown in the media without the residual lime.
However, when less acidic fertilizer solutions were used, there was little difference in the media or shoot-tissue calcium concentrations of plants grown in the two media.
These results suggest that the residual lime contained in the medium after the equilibrium pH was reached did not, in itself, buffer the root-medium Ca concentrations. Instead, the increase in root-medium and shoot-tissue Ca resulted from the reaction of the acidic NS with the residual lime.

The effect that limestone has with magnesium nutrition follows the same pattern as with calcium.
The reactive lime fraction did not influence magnesium concentrations in the media, even as the limestone continued to react.

Basically, it's saying that if we add enough dolomitic lime to our soils to both balance pH and have enough left over for Ca and Mg in the soil for nutrition, the only way it's available for the plant is under acidic conditions.

kind of a catch 22 because, we don't want acidic conditions ... that's why we add the lime in the first place.

 

[Coba]

^ two days and no comment ...

did everyone just get bummed out or something?

 

[The Dragon]

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