Hi all! I read somewhere that you can balance soil Ph with Dolomite Lime, regardless of whether your soil is too acidic or alkaline. As a result, I bought some. My water has a pH of 8. Since I'm doing an organic living soil(-ish) grow with no nutrients, I'm hoping to avoid using a pH down formula. Thoughts? Note: I already bought it and don't want or have time to get something else unless it's absolutely necesary. If the DL works, I'll do it. Thanks!
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Ph Balancing Alkaline soil with Dolomite Lime in organic soil
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What is needed is buffers, dolomite lime is 1 of the 2 sulfur is the other, I use pelleted so the release is slow. Lime is = to PH up, while Sulfur is = to PH down, the plant will move elements around and make the soil what she wants. As a note if you use perlite, do make sure the lime and sulfur are pelleted, the wet perlite reacts with the powdered versions way to fast. I dropped my 8.4 soil to below 3 with one application of water soluble powdered sulfur, it made to much sulfuric acid to fast.
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