When amending the soil, I added too much fine powdered dolomite lime. Added about 4 Tsb per gallon instead of 1 Tsb not knowing how much to mix in. It is causing yellowing of new growth. Pretty sure it is a sulfur deficiency caused by calcium locking up the sulfur. My question is how well does Dolomite flush out of the growing medium?
Used too much Dolomite. Help please.
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riddleme
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Flushing will release more, need to transplant into proper soil
CLOSETGROWTH
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I doubt its the dolomite lime...
I use to dump cup fulls into my soil without any problem whatsoever.
Transplanting is not easily done. In 3rd week of flowering, well established under a trellis, and already in 5 gallon container with current setup don't have room for larger containers. They are still growing very well. Still stretching, right before major bud development. Any other suggestions?
Dolomite is something new I added this round. I'm a heavy feeder. Use full Earth Juice line as primary. Use Molasses, Fish emulsion plus Kelp, Budswel, and Hydrozyme as secondary nutes. No problems in other rounds. Added dolomite because EJ line lacks calcium. Soil pH is 6.5 - 7.0. Calcium can block out sulfur and my babies are getting sulfur from the Budswel and Earth Juice Meta-K.
MoReJew-ce
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Maybe the larger aggregate versions. The finely pulverized dolomite acts fast and does EXACTLY what is posted here. Lower leaves begin curling in ward, yellowing and necrotic spots break out on the lower leaves first. It's bad. And all due to high alkalinity... even if your PH measure is spot on. Alkalinity and PH probs are completely different, as they are treated in nearly opposite ways. One requires xplant (you'd think somebody would've come up w a product to cancel or deactivate the lime in cases like these. Would make a fortune!), n the other requires you dry the soil and apply the correct PH water. If you administer it while wet, the PH will not have the same result.