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Haight1985

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I am having issues with my leafs on all my plants and need help. I am using the moonshine man mix Fox Farm happy frog, ocean forest, light warrior, happy frog fruit n flower. I was told I can use this mix with just transplanting and water with ph balanced water at 6.5. Also being new to organic mixes do I need to flush or will this just flush all the nutrients out of the mix.
 

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Here are some more pics of my problem it happens to the older leafs first and is very slowly working its way up but the new growth always looks very healthy until the new growth becomes old.
 

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Ok I have been watering with tap water adjusted to a ph of 6.5. I was told I can use this organic mix with just watering with 6.5 water and transplanting so there for I never check runoff ph. So I checked runoff ph after runing about 2 gals of 6.5 water through 1 gal pots and runoff is coming out at 5.0-5.5 ph. So should I flush with plain tap water with ph of 8.3 or do I need to add lime and go from there. The reason I havent flushed is because I thought this would flush out nutrients from the mix. Please Help
 
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Haight1985 said:
Ok I have been watering with tap water adjusted to a ph of 6.5. I was told I can use this organic mix with just watering with 6.5 water and transplanting so there for I never check runoff ph. So I checked runoff ph after runing about 2 gals of 6.5 water through 1 gal pots and runoff is coming out at 5.0-5.5 ph. So should I flush with plain tap water with ph of 8.3 or do I need to add lime and go from there. The reason I havent flushed is because I thought this would flush out nutrients from the mix. Please Help
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You def need to do a thorough flush. The 8.3ph water should bring you back up in a decent range.
 
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Nullis

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Use hydrated lime, preferably. You could also spread a bit of regular garden lime or dolomite lime on the soil and water it in thoroughly, which will work in the long term. Hydrated lime may solve the problem quicker.

You're using organic soils; these contain mycorrhizae and other beneficial micro-organisms that work to provide the plant with nutrients and help regulate pH. You're going to kill all of that off if you use any tap water or pH Up.
 
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Haight1985

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Ok so im going to try some lime but as far as hydrated lime is for gardening or is it the same lime used for making concrete please let me know so I can buy the right stuff.
 
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I am not a concrete expert, but I would imagine that limestone for that purpose might not be as pure.

Garden lime is crushed oyster shell or limestone; containing primarily calcium carbonate (as do egg shells). Dolomite lime also contains magnesium. These are both slow acting/long lasting.
Hydrated lime is calcium hydroxide, faster acting and powerful. Liquid lime is finely ground, suspended particles of dolomite lime; also faster acting than dry garden or dolomite lime.
 
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Haight1985

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So I bought some sunleaves soil sweetener it was the only one I could find that was a fine powder so I applied one teaspoon to my 1 gal pots and when I watered with ph of 6.5 the runoff is now at 6.3 so I will just wait and see what kind of visual results I can see in the plants and I will post new pics when problem is resulved.
 
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