This is my first outdoor grow, I do have some indoor exp. My soil is river loam, sandy and on one side alittle more clay type rocky on the other. I have 200X200. I dozed some ditches about 15ft apart by 150long 3ft deep and filled spaces with a few yrds of forest products like potting soil type that is supposed to have nitrgen injected and a wetting agent, ph buffered?. Some oyster shell, perlite, vermiculite a cup of dolomite lime. Some chicken manure compost with rice hulls in which was supposed to be composted but was not black and looked fresh when delivered by transfer trk. The forest products were mixed 2 parts to 1 part chicken mix. It started out really good, we were fertilizing organically, lightly at first. then stepped it way up. No signs of burn but some of the plants started looking sick, I sent soil samples to the lab and found that my levels were very high and very low in calcium and high in sodium. The ph was 5.7 and some at 6.3. my source water is 8.6 so I started flushing very heavy and adding meta calcium and bio pak. Things started looking alitttle better. Another soils reveiled my ph was up alittle but, a few of my plants look real sick. I have been watering alot no nutes and using a rapid tester probe to keep an eye on the ph. today I added a little calcium carb lime to the 2 sickies. Am I on the right track here. the side with the higher ph7 has the smallest plants the labs says add gypsum, on the side with low ph5.7 plants look good, they say add lime. I am affraid to do anything at this time. so have been watering with ph adjusted at 7. I will send some pics of the sickies
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