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Wednesday, April 05, 2017
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The Pumpkin
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Kirkwood, MO
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Received my soil test results back a week ago, surprisingly Most nutrients came pretty low across the board. Going to work on lowering this ph, ever since i added Lime in my first year of growing to raise my PH, there has been a decent percent of free Lime in my soil. I'm not expecting it to lower into the 7's, but by adding elemental sulfur it will keep ph from going any higher. At this point nutrient values are locked up so John From western Labs Advised me to use chelated nutrients in season, and I will be taking a tissue test some time mid season to know what my plant is taken in. John advised me to add more than the standard recommendations to the patch for micro nutrients, Here Is What I am adding per 1000 Square feet in my main patch:
20 Lbs Elemental Sulfur
35 lbs of cotton seed meal
10.1 lbs of 0-0-50
22 lbs of Epson salt
4.6 lbs of Ammonium Nitrate
30 lbs of Kelp Meal
0.6 lbs of Borax
2.25 lbs of Zinc Sulfate
3.3 lbs of Iron Sulfate
0.6 lbs of Copper Sulfate
3.25 lbs of Manganese Sulfate
I ran these numbers through the Soil estimator on the team pumpkin website, the estimated end values look like this
Nitrogen 35.9 ppm
Phosphorus 125 ppm
Potassium 269 ppm
Calcium 2821 ppm
Magnesium 212.9
Boron 1.6 ppm
Copper 3.9 ppm
Manganese 23.8
Iron 27.1
Sulfur 500.6
Zinc 18.7 ppm
And once I get the plant growing it will probably drain the nutrients in a month. a lot of trickle feeding this year!
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