It depends on your tap water. Tap water is mostly fine unless it has a super high alkalinity. What is your tap water ph, ppms, and alkalinity/total hardness if you know them? If you live in a municipality you can find the tests online.
I always use it in my coco/mineral salt grows, but I'll def have enough magnesium in my no till mix-unless of course enough is just not available right away. I'm totally convinced that epsom salts help make dank buds-but there are a lot of ways to get that sulfur. I like how people are using lots of gypsum in their no till recipes. Discovering gypsum was a revelation for me in my early outdoor gardening career-it performs magic on clay soils and it has that same "dank bud" effect as epsom.
How do you guys use the epsom? Just apply to the soil as a topdress or is it in the mix?
Thanks for the reply Rurumo, i could take a look online but seeing as i live in South-Africa the likelihood of those tests being true are low. The last thing i want is something like arsenic in the water. Let me change the topic. How should i be using R.O water in no-till ?
You could try Poultry Grit from a feed mill. Most are made from Granite. This will improve the ec and give you aeration.
Those grassroots beds are pretty cheap here finally, and they would make such an amazing upgrade from my current ghetto setup. I'm just not motivated to change over due to it being a great disturbance to my soil which I've kept in that same pot for 8 cycles now. And when I stared this I used soil in another no-till setup, but 15 gallon bins that were easy to incorporate into the 4" diameter fabric pot without disturbing too much. I had those ones for years.
Use vermiculite with that perlite.
most people will flat out say NO, but it really depends on your water. If your water has very high alkalinity and/or PH then over time you will start seeing things lock out. My water is highly alkaline so I always ph it with citric acid, but I don't outdoors in my veggie garden and I have chronic iron lockout out there. It's equally important to follow the recipes and add enough oyster shell, because people with lower alkalinity water might see the opposite result if they don't lime it enough.
How would that ratio with 2 g pots and 7 ? Realizing its needed would this only work if mixed in soil or can it be top dressed? Since I already mixed my soil about 2 weeks ago for a cook.. Thanks for lookin out as Always Rurumo
Which recipe did you use for your soil? Did you use either oyster shell or dolomite? There is a pretty wide range of amounts of these "liming agents" that work, you might be just fine.
I havent got a hold of any atm just a basic happy frog base / worm castings / added pearlite and thats about it until flower and organic 444
You might be fine, it really comes down to your water. Do you know the PH of your tap water? If you're on city water, you can usually find a report online that has that info, plus things like alkalinity, total hardness, and calcium level, which are sometimes good to know too.
They'll be outside too if that makes a difference. Will be watering with phd Ro water when rain isnt taking over. I have a thread under organics as well if u wanna check it out gonna be posting everything there im not trying to clog this thread with my noob questions. haha
