What are your favorite soil amendments?

[NickNasty]

If you have chloramine in your water just add a tad bit of humic acid or ascorbic acid < (Vitamin C) to your water and it will bind up the chloramine. It doesn't take much like a tsp of humic acid will do 500 gal of water. Just check your water companies website and it will tell you if they are using chloramine.

 

[st0wandgrow]

Sweet!
Thanks guys - looks like I am ready to make the switch.
I don't have a clue if there is any chloramine in Detroit water system.
Anyone know?
Hmmm - I can pick up a pump and air stone - but I'm open to any other suggestions for chloramine removal.

I was using the full Earth Juice line before I got infested and tossed everything a couple times.
I had to toss thousands of seeds and shit - ended up starting over from seed twice.
All seems well here for the last couple months; so I figure it's time to try and dump the salts and get back to 'organics' from a bottle.
Earth Juice worked well for me; but the pH swing was wild to put it mildly.
I was just about ready to order Flora or Fox or something similar in salts when Johnny started this thread and got me thinking a little deeper.

Detroit will for sure have chloramine in their water. No need to buy an air pump if you don't have one. I use it because I have a shit load of molasses and if it isn't bubbled it will ferment just sitting there .... but as NickNasty pointed out above humic acid will work just fine. Pretty much any organic material will bind chloramine. Compost, ewc, alfalfa meal, etc.

Good luck with the new setup! You have some great looking gear

 

[Stompromper]

Looks like we don't know how molasses works either lol.

Dynamite Lime doesnt do shit to keep your ph stable in Ocean Forest... mine always ends up dropping down in the 5's... What do you do to get it back up? I'vE TRIED adding more lime, flushing the shit out of the soil with a higher ph water.. nothing works. For me
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I grow some killer meds but I can only imagine how much better I could do if I could keep my soil ph more stable. Maybe it does have to do with the city water...

 

[st0wandgrow]

Looks like we don't know how molasses works either lol.

Dynamite Lime doesnt do shit to keep your ph stable in Ocean Forest... mine always ends up dropping down in the 5's... What do you do to get it back up? I'vE TRIED adding more lime, flushing the shit out of the soil with a higher ph water.. nothing works. For me
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I grow some killer meds but I can only imagine how much better I could do if I could keep my soil ph more stable. Maybe it does have to do with the city water...

Stomp, a good replacement for dolo lime is oyster shell flour. It works great, but you will most likely have to order it online. Another good replacement can be found at Home Depot. Pick up a package of "Lily Miller Super Sweet" calcium carbonate, and a package of garden Gyspum (calcium sulfate). You will use that at a 2:1 ratio calcium carbonate to calcium sulfate. This can be applied to your medium at between 1/2 cup to 1 cup per cubic foot depending on how acidic your soil is. It takes a while to become bio available so it's best to add it to your soil while it's sitting for x weeks prior to plugging a clone in there.