Rick
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http://www.uky.edu/Ag/Horticulture/anderson/orgfert1.pdf
This article shows that organic ferts have EC too.
This article shows that organic ferts have EC too.
Be careful accepting info from some reps - many have no technical background whatsoever, repeating what they "think" they heard or read, without considering the validity of it....I was once told by a rep. for Earth Juice is that you can not test organic compounds/fertilizers with EC.
http://www.uky.edu/Ag/Horticulture/anderson/orgfert1.pdf
This article shows that organic ferts have EC too.
I don't know if any of you checked this article out, but thought the analysis of two different kelp products was striking.
"Algamin" liquid 0.2 - 0.0 - 0.4 Ca = 0.46, Mg = 0.62
"Ohrstom's Garden Maxicrop" (powder) 1.0 - 0.0 - 4.0 Ca = 0.66
Mg = 0.24
In both cases, phosphorus is very low (there is some on actual analysis), and K is higher than N. But in Algamin, Ca and Mg are higher than K, but this is reversed in Maxicrop.
OK.....now after almost a year and a half of using K-lite, I think I have finally noticed some patterns. First- if plants are going downhill, or about to go downhill, K-lite is no panacea. It has not saved any plants in poor condition.
Second- plants that are doing well continue to do well, and in fact, seem to do better. That for me is the important part. I try to repot more or less yearly, and this is the time of year that I do most repotting. Normally, repotting reveals a number of paphs that I thought were doing well, but turn out to be rootless or on their way to being rootless. This is not happening as much, if at all. Plants are turning out to have healthy or growing roots at a much greater rate. I still don't get heavy, extensive root systems on paphs, but these are good, healthy systems, about as good as my paphs usually get. So....I'm definitely glad I switched over.
I'll throw my two cents in...
I would not expect any fertilizer to help save a plant - unless it was starving - any more than I would expect filling up the gas tank to fix a broken-down car.
I'll throw my two cents in...
I would not expect any fertilizer to help save a plant - unless it was starving -
I have been toying with the idea of adding tap water to my RO water. What kind of chemicals and additive do you need to worry about in tap water? I know you can sit tap water out for a day or two in the sun and gas-off some of them.
I am going to get the water test from the city. Ray, do you have anything on your website to help me understand the meanings of these test numbers?
So a carbon filter, like on a brita, will remove the chloramine? That is nice to know. Does it remove any important minerals though?
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