PH is Plant Health

[Hereinthailand]

Good read.

 

pH should stand for plant health.docx

Edited July 20, 2017 by Hereinthailand
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[grollies]

Mate, I appreciate the links you post however, as I'm on an Android phone, I can't download and open any docx files. Are there links to PDFs available?

[Hereinthailand]

Ill try and remember to post both in the future, might have to remind me.

pH should stand for plant health.pdf

Septic Webinar.pdf

[grollies]

11 hours ago, Hereinthailand said:

Ill try and remember to post both in the future, might have to remind me.

pH should stand for plant health.pdf

Septic Webinar.pdf

Thank you. So I now find out that my phone won't download any file from TVF, PDF, Docx, nothing.

 

Time to get my crappy laptop out, get a personal hotspot going and try downloading that way.

 

Appreciate you taking the time for me and for the info you post for everyone, don't worry about remembering the PDF link as MS Office will open docx.

 

Thanks again.

[cooked]

For  most gardeners, knowing that a high pH level can lead to a deficiency in Iron and also Magnesium should carry them through most of their horticultural existence. It did me for 45 years.  Bor deficiency can be important for cabbages and the like.

What is important is being able to recognise the symptoms of mineral deficiency which can often lead to the plant becoming weak and unable to withstand insect or fungal attacks as well as refusing to grow. There are various foliar sprays and liquid fertilisers available to counter iron /magnesium deficiencies, which generally go together.

My initial pH test consisted of pouring a toilet cleaner containing 19% Hydrochloric acid onto the soil (brick makers' clay) and watch it fizzle and bubble. Adding the local building sand, which is definitely acidic, to the soil, has resulted in a soil that doesn't bubble!.I didn't work it in much, it just did that by itself over the years.

 

[grollies]

27 minutes ago, cooked said:

For  most gardeners, knowing that a high pH level can lead to a deficiency in Iron and also Magnesium should carry them through most of their horticultural existence. It did me for 45 years.  Bor deficiency can be important for cabbages and the like.

What is important is being able to recognise the symptoms of mineral deficiency which can often lead to the plant becoming weak and unable to withstand insect or fungal attacks as well as refusing to grow. There are various foliar sprays and liquid fertilisers available to counter iron /magnesium deficiencies, which generally go together.

My initial pH test consisted of pouring a toilet cleaner containing 19% Hydrochloric acid onto the soil (brick makers' clay) and watch it fizzle and bubble. Adding the local building sand, which is definitely acidic, to the soil, has resulted in a soil that doesn't bubble!.I didn't work it in much, it just did that by itself over the years.

I have to get my soil tested soon. In the meantime I watch what grows well and what doesn't.

 

Chilies, long bean and tomato do well in one patch whereas green leaf veg doesn't so I'm guessing soil pH is around 5-6.

27 minutes ago, cooked said:

 

[cooked]

You can get pH testers on Lazada, For the rest, I think you can safely assume, in Thailand, that your soil is deficient in just about everything.

[grollies]

4 hours ago, cooked said:

You can get pH testers on Lazada, For the rest, I think you can safely assume, in Thailand, that your soil is deficient in just about everything.

About right, the veg patch was just made-up ground from the pond dig years ago. Dug it over, chicken manure, rice husk, green manure. Took about a year to get some soil together.