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Happy frog perlite? Do you mean Happy Frog with perlite (if so, how much?) or straight perlite? If you're using straight perlite, there's your problem. Lime is the kind of thing you would ideally add to a mix prior to planting in, and you wouldn't use lime with straight perlite. At this point...

Yes. Compost, castings and humus are dense materials though. Not quite as dense as clay but can still make a potting mix heavy. I try to keep compost/castings at 20-25% total volume, so I calculate how much I'm going to add of what before I start mixing. A handful of perlite per cubic ft is...

Overdose, overkill, more than what is necessary. Materials like compost, humus, earthworm castings, clay, coco coir, sphagnum and vermiculite have measurable Cation Exchange Capacity. The particles are small enough to possess a high degree of electronegativity and attract ions via exchange...

Yeah, a toxic broad-spectrum compound to half ass what nature does better while simultaneously actually providing for the plant. Sounds about right. Lol fuck our planet lol. I keep predator mites in my soil, they are easier to keep around and monitor than the nematodes. It would be good to have...

See, IMO cutting FFOF with 30% perlite is OD. When you do that you're killing the soils buffering capacity; which would otherwise be higher. Perlite has no cation exchange capacity. It doesn't provide any nutrients but more importantly it doesn't "hold onto" them either. CEC is the...

Check out Amazon. I know I've seen the Scanmask ones on there before. @kiwipaulie beneficial nematodes are microscopic worm-like organisms that parasitize a wide variety of soil-dwelling pests (root aphids, fungus gnat and even flea larvae). Their activity also benefits the soil by cycling...

The problem with human urine is more pharmaceutical and other metabolites. Some antibiotics are actually excreted largely unchanged through urine. Seabird guano really isn't supposed to come from seagulls, though. Peruvian seabird guano for example comes mainly from Peruvian booby and Guanay...

Seabirds have very diverse diets; fish, insects, etc. Fossilized/mineralized guano is aged anyways and usually harvested by vacuuming out of caves so it contains decayed insects, minerals from other sources, whatever remnants of material are also in the cave. As for urine in the droppings, the...

It is correct that magnesium carbonate has a higher CCE and more neutralizing ability that calcium carbonate by weight (Mg is a lighter element). Pure magnesium carbonate would have a CCE of about 119 and pure dolomite has a CCE of 108. The thing is that nobody uses pure magnesite for liming and...

Oyster shell has trace amounts of Mg, and Mg is really a secondary (not a trace) element for plants. The only reason it would dissolve or break down any quicker than calcitic/dolomitic limestone would be particle size. What I am saying is that dolomitic/calcitic limestone is virtually the same...

My ass is clean I just took a huge dump. Have you ever been to a liquor store? BBQ? Family function or reunion? etc? Tell me for a second that people (adults) don't openly purchase or consume alcoholic beverages around children of all ages. We're not talking about "someone" singular and this is...

Go search for the forest moron. Don't let it stab you in the ass. I've heard pine sap irritates the rectum. Point is adults get intoxicated around children all the time. Only difference here is the substance and method of production. People growing their own Cannabis who have children aren't...

Whoa. Now I can tell from the last sentences of my previous post how fucked up I was last night. :shock:

I was just at a Wegmans and witnessed an Indian family with three seemingly well cared for kids and nothing but three 36-packs of booze in the shopping cart. I'm sure the children wont witness their parents consume the horrible intoxicating beverages, though. :roll:

I don't even think those statistics are available. But seriously? Think critically for a sec here... people growing small-scale really don't get murdered all that often. Even commercial growers are probably more likely to get busted than murdered. You're being overly dramatic. How many...

I'm at a tour of a brewing facility right now, where they do beer tasting. Guess what? People actually bring their infant children here. I'm looking at a stroller right now.

Just noticed no one answered your question. If you really over-do it yes it can get above 7, but you'd REALLY need to over-do it for that to happen. It also depends on the pH and CEC of the media. i.e. lower CEC soils require more frequent applications in contrast to high CEC media. Lab testing...

Actually, dolomite is a double carbonate: calcium magnesium carbonate with Ca and Mg alternating in the crystal lattice. Oyster shell flour is composed predominately of the salt of carbonic acid we call calcium carbonate (virtually no Mg). Pure dolomite would have roughly equal proportion...

What a crock of shit... "it's called demographics", oh is that what you do for a living? So anytime anyone mentions kids you can automatically pull details about their personalities out of your ass and judge people? I have a vegetable garden, etc. and my friend has a 3 year old son who likes to...

You can use it in veg/early flower also it feeds soil biota and provides minerals.