- Sun Oct 13, 2013 7:06 pm
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Hello,
I purchased Lakeland 100% Canadian organic peat moss from Home Depot and Premier silica #20 Orange County plant from Lowes. I have made a lot of soil and had it in four pots. My trouble is that every time I would repot a new one they would slowly decline. Thought I could have been overwatering but they are very deep pots and I was bottom watering. So yesterday when a leaf died in only two-three days from green to yellow to black. So I got to thinking well I better check the TDS of drain water after top watering. So I checked, got actually 1000 ppm on one thing of run off and about 500+ on the others. So I immediately uprooted and lets them soak in pure water for a while as I rinse all of my soil with gallons of pure water. Got it definitely at or below 40 ppm and repotted them. My concern is this silica sand is breaking down, or maybe the peat moss was just that bad and needed to be rinsed (I never had rinsed it, didn't realize I needed to) What are your thoughts? Just curious what I should do. I certainly don't want to kill my 6 plants.
Thanks everyone
Curtis
I purchased Lakeland 100% Canadian organic peat moss from Home Depot and Premier silica #20 Orange County plant from Lowes. I have made a lot of soil and had it in four pots. My trouble is that every time I would repot a new one they would slowly decline. Thought I could have been overwatering but they are very deep pots and I was bottom watering. So yesterday when a leaf died in only two-three days from green to yellow to black. So I got to thinking well I better check the TDS of drain water after top watering. So I checked, got actually 1000 ppm on one thing of run off and about 500+ on the others. So I immediately uprooted and lets them soak in pure water for a while as I rinse all of my soil with gallons of pure water. Got it definitely at or below 40 ppm and repotted them. My concern is this silica sand is breaking down, or maybe the peat moss was just that bad and needed to be rinsed (I never had rinsed it, didn't realize I needed to) What are your thoughts? Just curious what I should do. I certainly don't want to kill my 6 plants.
Thanks everyone
Curtis