calcium too high
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PadawanWarrior
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Watering with citric acid will get some out. But like Spec said, what makes you think it has too much?
I'd almost think that the one second it would have taken you to actually put down what the test results said the Ca level was would be beneficial.
If you want help, be as informative about your situation as possible. Nobody wants to keep prodding someone to force-elicit information. That's a waste of time.
Put more thought and effort in when asking a question. I can tell you several ways on how to help, but without all available information, I wouldn't have the slightest clue as to which one would suit you best (or at all). To further, you haven't even mentioned what you consider to be too much Ca.
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I use exactly 141 PPM of Ca in my nutrient solution. Any less and I start seeing Ca deficiency. I use the bare minimal amount that keep my plants happy.
At 848 PPM, I highly doubt there's anything you can do to make that medium usable. Someone may know better, but that is a lot of Calcium.
Where did this medium come from? Just dug up from the back yard? What was the PPM of the other ones? Magnesium for example.
I suspect you'll have to find an alternate medium source.
BluntMoniker
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Increase your medium... add peat/coco. Doubling your current volume should roughly halve your total Ca levels and bring them much closer to the high end of the range your looking for.
MustangStudFarm
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People are absolutely oblivious to soil testing around here! I'm leaning towards saying that you should listen to the soil test... Antagonism means that they work against eachother, more of one will lower the availability of the other. BTW, what soil test did you get? Was it a standard Mehlich 3 and Saturated Paste? Post it...
MustangStudFarm
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Cover the personal info on your soil test and take a picture of it, then post it... It's a real pain to decipher a Mehlich 3 test, for real. It's not obvious to what your real problem is until you get a solubility test like the saturated paste or Soil Savvy test.
