Re: Lime and pine nuggets

From: plantnut plantnut at macconnect.com> on 2001.07.24 at 21:01:45(7111) Denis, When you add eight cups of dolomitic limestone... to what volume are you adding.... What is the cu. ft. of your mix... Dewey +More >Dear Brian: > >I always add eight cups of dolomitic limestone (Dolomite) to my soil mix >of Peat and Perlite. It help bring Ph of mix up to 5.5 to 6.0 a better >range for the absorption of nutrients by the plants. Ph of the soil mix >will usually shift downward (become more acid) as peat in soil breaks >down. Adding dolomite supplies Calcium and Magnesium and keeps the soil >mix at a higher Ph so that it lasts longer in the pot. Adding >uncomposted Pine bark to a mix might acidify the mix and if as they >decompose the bacteria and fungi that break down the bark may pull >nitrogen and other nutrients from soil mix. Soil mixes may be a subject >that we need to discuss further. > >Denis at Silver Krome Gardens >Homestead Fla > >brian williams wrote: >> >> OK I would like to know in my Alocasia mix would it be wise to add lime dust >> to the mix of perlite and powdered sphagnum? So do the aroids like the acid >> of the soil or does it matter. I know I planted a Philo willimsii in a mix >> with pine nuggets and it seemed to kill it. I figured from the acid being to >> high. The ones potted in a different mix are still a live. But the ones that >> had the pine nuggets did not send new roots into the soil and finally turned >> a bright yellow before dyeing. This also happened to another philo in only >> 12 day from being repotted. I have sense kept pine nuggets out of my philo >> mix. My amorphs seem to like pine nuggets thought. But to me pine nuggets >> and lime it seems most plants would only like one or the other do aroids >> like both? Like azaleas they only like acid soil and will not live with lime >> in the soil. >> >> So will lime kill a aroid? >> >> Will the acid soil kill a aroid? If so which ones? I >> _________________________________________________________________ >> Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com Your source for Tropical Araceae http://members.macconnect.com/users/p/plantnut/

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