Need Small Soil Mix Help?

[Jay Johnson]

Alright...can i just water in some lime? i thought that because the sunshine #4 said it had lime, that i'd be good for awhile.

 

[Wetdog]

Alright...can i just water in some lime? i thought that because the sunshine #4 said it had lime, that i'd be good for awhile.

You could, but it's much better to add to the mix.

Again, it's *crushed rock*, very slow release and is not going to hurt anything. Mix it in and fuggetabout it. It doesn't dissolve in water, not many rocks do.

Quit over thinking it.

Wet

 

[randomseed]

You could, but it's much better to add to the mix.

Again, it's *crushed rock*, very slow release and is not going to hurt anything. Mix it in and fuggetabout it. It doesn't dissolve in water, not many rocks do.

Quit over thinking it.

Wet

Hey Wet, your words are always wisdom.
I do have a bone to pick though, with lime.
I understand the logically sure, its a rock so you figure it would take awhile to break down...sure.
But in observation I mixed a batch of recycled dirt and skipped out on the lime thinking "hey its slow release I dont want a buildup now do I" since I always mix it in.
That batch had MAJOR issues with cmag defs. Fought those for awhile with liguid since I didnt want to screw with the mix.
On the next run I had a few plants still in that batch of dirt and pleanty in a new batch with lime, the stuff in new dirt did fine but the ones in the old batch started showing issues as soon as they got three weeks into veg, since I was confident on the cause at this point I when ahead and top dressed and watered the guys hurting with 2 tbl of lime each. Within two days it was almost like it never happend, plants new leaf edges started coming out perfect again, all cupping stopped etc.....
So my observation says Lime is useful much faster then I think people are giving it credit for.

THoughts?

 

[Wetdog]

Hey Wet, your words are always wisdom.
I do have a bone to pick though, with lime.
I understand the logically sure, its a rock so you figure it would take awhile to break down...sure.
But in observation I mixed a batch of recycled dirt and skipped out on the lime thinking "hey its slow release I dont want a buildup now do I" since I always mix it in.
That batch had MAJOR issues with cmag defs. Fought those for awhile with liguid since I didnt want to screw with the mix.
On the next run I had a few plants still in that batch of dirt and pleanty in a new batch with lime, the stuff in new dirt did fine but the ones in the old batch started showing issues as soon as they got three weeks into veg, since I was confident on the cause at this point I when ahead and top dressed and watered the guys hurting with 2 tbl of lime each. Within two days it was almost like it never happend, plants new leaf edges started coming out perfect again, all cupping stopped etc.....
So my observation says Lime is useful much faster then I think people are giving it credit for.

THoughts?

Could very well be. My 'ground' lime from Lowes is about the consistency of flour. I would bet there are even smaller particles in there that would be available real quick.

The main reason I say this is more than one guy top dressed with lime, didn't see any results the next morning and applied it again! So, I say 2 weeks to slow their urges to do more *fixing*. LOL

Plus, I guess it would depend on who's doing the grinding and how fine it is. I've noticed the same thing as you with my maters. Those suckers just chew up the cal/mag and I had to top dress a couple months into the season, and it was well limed to start with. Things started getting right within days.

But, I wonder if it would have been that fast if it wasn't quite as fine as it is?

Your observations are spot on. +rep Says I must spread it around before I can rep you again. BAH!!

Wet

 

[randomseed]

The stuff Im using is about as fine as flower too so that would make a ton of sense.

I dont get why bashing on lime is so popular these days, I feel like Id be lost without it

 

[Jay Johnson]

Yea, i went and got some Hi-Yield agricultural limestone, which i was told is Dolomite Lime. Its very powdery as well. Ph on my cooking soil is nowhere near as low as I've been hearing tho, its staying at like 7.3ish. So I'll probably try to get it down some before adding in the lime. Probably going to cook it one more week before use.