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here is my reno BD x Cindy fat girl bottom shot. Whooping great fans on an Ox too. They need some P, but otherwise all good, its a wee bit cold at night so they are shifting P a bit
 

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I trimmed them a bit today, I will take some new pics as these are a few days old anyways and the plants have had good light levels and moderately warmer nights. Oh and I fed some Nano-PK with Bio Cu/Zn/ Mn etc via foliar to quickly address the high pH water (8.3), slowing many micros and macros alike and cold nights here which are slowing bacterial activity, and so inevitable problems this causes with slower P mobilisation in to the soil solution, preceeding increased fixed P and lower Fe blah blah and higher rates of pH leading to near zero micros right at technical fruit set....awkward.
The heavy carbonates are playing havoc with short term P uptake and well the Zn is near zero at that level too, i am having to adjust pH or its mayhem.
I am desperate to get my own soil which is held in customs, or was until earlier today, most of the stuff here is too high in its Sodium for me.

My NH4+ is converting in 3 days or less and so whatever I try to set the pH at from base, it blasts upwards within days from a media perspective, and to such a level I am considering a pine needle mulch and a day juicing lemons, itself a journey up in to the mountains to acquire materials from the pine trees not growing at my range. All in some hope of not having to ton on the Sulfates or urea based N sources to counter the buffer, itself perhaps then presenting a further challenge for Mg uptake or other exchangeable cations, esp as the Na drops out and on to the CEC table from any possible adds.
I am running a solvent by way, of Brown Rice Vinegar, in between feeds at 8ml per gallon now I can see the impacts from initial leaf samples, I cant do more now until i get the latest leaf sample results after the foliar treatment of nano P and Bacterial chelates of Micros with Silicon. i am hoping I have done enough for now.
I wish i had more time for them, but the Oranges are taking over my life
 
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Ecompost said:
I trimmed them a bit today, I will take some new pics as these are a few days old anyways and the plants have had good light levels and moderately warmer nights. Oh and I fed some Nano-PK with Bio Cu/Zn/ Mn etc via foliar to quickly address the high pH water (8.3), slowing many micros and macros alike and cold nights here which are slowing bacterial activity, and so inevitable problems this causes with slower P mobilisation in to the soil solution, preceeding increased fixed P and lower Fe blah blah and higher rates of pH leading to near zero micros right at technical fruit set....awkward.
The heavy carbonates are playing havoc with short term P uptake and well the Zn is near zero at that level too, i am having to adjust pH or its mayhem.
I am desperate to get my own soil which is held in customs, or was until earlier today, most of the stuff here is too high in its Sodium for me.

My NH4+ is converting in 3 days or less and so whatever I try to set the pH at from base, it blasts upwards within days from a media perspective, and to such a level I am considering a pine needle mulch and a day juicing lemons, itself a journey up in to the mountains to acquire materials from the pine trees not growing at my range. All in some hope of not having to ton on the Sulfates or urea based N sources to counter the buffer, itself perhaps then presenting a further challenge for Mg uptake or other exchangeable cations, esp as the Na drops out and on to the CEC table from any possible adds.
I am running a solvent by way, of Brown Rice Vinegar, in between feeds at 8ml per gallon now I can see the impacts from initial leaf samples, I cant do more now until i get the latest leaf sample results after the foliar treatment of nano P and Bacterial chelates of Micros with Silicon. i am hoping I have done enough for now.
I wish i had more time for them, but the Oranges are taking over my life
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What could be better? Life revolving around the forest garden..... living the dream friend :love1:
 
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GT21 said:
Pretty cool to see in different locations like that hahaha and both look fat n happy.
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they are working me mate, i dont have anyway to rip the carbs out of the water here, its low EC but high pH. i would get shot running RO here mate due to the waste so i am working on a self buffering Oxalate additive which i can use instead of risking high levels of Citric. i am to date, not able to find anyone that can tell me if this organic acid may have a similar negative swing during KREBS, which may then cause a problems with cell waste or other balance process impacting end product
 
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this is an example of what i am dealing with outside the gates. This is a number of issues, but primarily it is linked to the calcareous soil here, the high pH irrigation water, itself abundant in carbonates and not used frequently enough to leach excahangeable cations below the root zone, the lack of humus, organic matter and over soil stability, the loss of fungal mass due to poor IPM practices to control root pathogens, themselves a consequence of poor soil management and structure, lack of N due to irrigation flaws and high soil buffering, leaching Sodium interfering with K uptake, Mg uptake slowed by applications of Ammonium N, itself a reaction to the calcareous soils from previous owners, lacking both leadership and so best practice through years of tossbag agricultural industry experts miss leading them.

I have lots to fix here, now its prune, next its add the bokashi compost, cardboard, woodchips, bokashi manures, relay the new irrigation lines, introduce new IPM practices to limit insect and competing plant matters. Continue with specified foliar treatments until i can fix the soil every 4 weeks.

target is 3500 boxes per acre in 2 years ;-)
 

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