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    Ground Dolomite, and other safe suppliments

    My tomato plants started getting yellow leaves. Looked like a magnesium deficiency. Fish water has loads of nitrates and phosphates but can be weak in magnesium, postasium, and trace elements.

    I used dolomite, which is a calcium magnesium carbonate that effects pH only slightly and they greened right up.

    For Boron I use 20 Mule team Borax. Boron is a trace element. You don't need much. Go sparingly. Too much can harm invertebrates.

    Postassium can be found in wood ashes, but be carefull with that. Ashes can really spike your pH. Add to the beds and not the water.
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    Re: Ground Dolomite, and other safe suppliments

    Thanks for sharring the info Badflash.

    I tried 'azomite' for the 1st time this year. I actually ordered it for my 'dirt' garden. Here in FL, we do not have the trace minerals in the soil (sand). Homegrown tomatoes 'here', taste better then 'store bought'....but not the flavor of ones grown 'up north'....just MHO.
    I added it to my 'maters and peppers, I grow in buckets....seemed to help the flavor... I maybe, should of used more...it is a little costly.
    I have been adding a little to my AP ( I also add maxicrop w/iron.)

    It's nickname is the "A-Z" of trace minerals. It's basically mined from vocanic deposits.
    ORMI has it classed as 'organic'.

    Here's a link to the 'info 'page on azomite......

    http://www.azomite.com/index.php?option ... &Itemid=53
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    Re: Ground Dolomite, and other safe suppliments

    Did a little more checking on Borax. It will kill many bugs. Also excessive levels can be toxic to some plants.

    The basic ratio of Borax to surface area should be no more than one tablespoon to 100 square feet.

    Cabbage-family plants, strawberries, carrots, sunflowers and beets all appreciate boron. Beans don't.

    Flavor of tomatoes has a lot to do with the variety you grow. What are you growing?
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    Re: Ground Dolomite, and other safe suppliments

    Quote Originally Posted by badflash
    Flavor of tomatoes has a lot to do with the variety you grow. What are you growing?
    Your right about the varietys having different flavors...or lack of. I have tried many over the years in FL. But, we just don't have the minerals in our 'sandbox' soil......
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    Re: Ground Dolomite, and other safe suppliments

    Aquaponics can fix that. High nitrates for lush growth, then cut back for fruiting. Doctor the minerals as needed.
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    Re: Ground Dolomite, and other safe suppliments

    Another point on the boron. You only need to do this when there are signs of need and probably only once every couple of years, or after a drain & refill of the system.
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    Re: Ground Dolomite, and other safe suppliments

    Quote Originally Posted by davidstcldfl
    the varietys having different flavors
    How was the flavor of the one you ate out of my garden? I still have that caterpillar taste in my mouth.
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    Re: Ground Dolomite, and other safe suppliments

    Stucco...don't eat the yellow snow (or tomato worms)...just trying to help
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    Re: Ground Dolomite, and other safe suppliments

    I tried telling Stucco, that it was just some fresh protien.....
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    Re: Ground Dolomite, and other safe suppliments

    Quote Originally Posted by davidstcldfl
    Thanks for sharring the info Badflash.

    I tried 'azomite' for the 1st time this year. I actually ordered it for my 'dirt' garden. Here in FL, we do not have the trace minerals in the soil (sand). Homegrown tomatoes 'here', taste better then 'store bought'....but not the flavor of ones grown 'up north'....just MHO.
    I added it to my 'maters and peppers, I grow in buckets....seemed to help the flavor... I maybe, should of used more...it is a little costly.
    I have been adding a little to my AP ( I also add maxicrop w/iron.)

    It's nickname is the "A-Z" of trace minerals. It's basically mined from vocanic deposits.
    ORMI has it classed as 'organic'.

    Here's a link to the 'info 'page on azomite......

    http://www.azomite.com/index.php?option ... &Itemid=53
    David, how much Azomite have you been adding to your AP system? The Azomite website shows a pic of some tilapia from a study from Thailand and it indicates that the Azomite increases the growth of the tilapia and I assume that it would also improve the plant growth in your AP system as it does in plants in the ground. Here is the pic of the fish/



    The link is http://www.azomite.com/index.php?option ... &Itemid=70

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