BusinessManTexas
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Does anyone here use Citric Acid? I come from a long time back-ground in maintaining and raising high quality turf grass and landscapes. One of the most important things I've learned was top notch soil and water go a long ways in raising plants, especially important ones that give expensive crops.
Over my years, in my area we constantly dealt with high pH waters, and VERY HIGH (8+) pH soils. One of my perfect recipes was adding Citric Acid into our spray tanks. This did two things. 1.) Lower the pH or (neutralize) our high pH water. 2. And best of all, we face severe iron deficiency here.It's common to see homeowners dump Iron on their lawn here. Unknowingly, they are using an EDTA-FE. At our high pH, EDTA-FE isn't much so available to the plant. However, I would throw EDDHA-FE into the tank with some Citric Acid. Not only does the Citric Acid lower the pH of the water, it "Chleates" and bonds with the iron molecules. Add a little magnesium into the mix of EDDHA-FE and Citric Acid, and it would turn our playing fields the darkest green you've ever seen. We also use the Citric Acid trick when applying Micronutrients.
So my question is, for you that live in an area with hard water and a high pH, do you use Citric Acid?
Over my years, in my area we constantly dealt with high pH waters, and VERY HIGH (8+) pH soils. One of my perfect recipes was adding Citric Acid into our spray tanks. This did two things. 1.) Lower the pH or (neutralize) our high pH water. 2. And best of all, we face severe iron deficiency here.It's common to see homeowners dump Iron on their lawn here. Unknowingly, they are using an EDTA-FE. At our high pH, EDTA-FE isn't much so available to the plant. However, I would throw EDDHA-FE into the tank with some Citric Acid. Not only does the Citric Acid lower the pH of the water, it "Chleates" and bonds with the iron molecules. Add a little magnesium into the mix of EDDHA-FE and Citric Acid, and it would turn our playing fields the darkest green you've ever seen. We also use the Citric Acid trick when applying Micronutrients.
So my question is, for you that live in an area with hard water and a high pH, do you use Citric Acid?