Soil Preparation and Analysis
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Subject: Joze Test Results
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Joze (Joe Ailts) |
Deer Park, WI
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Man...hard to believe this dirt produced 1000+ check this garbage out...
pH 6.1 OM 3.3% P 51ppm K 90ppm Ca 26.5ppm Mg 1016ppm B 277ppm
Any suggestions folks? Im pretty clueless when it comes to manipulating these numbers.
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5/20/2004 10:08:10 AM
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Alexsdad |
Garden State Pumpkins
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Joze..you had to make changes in the patch since last year!!! what did you add??? either that or the pumpkin sucked your calcium dry!! lol...try another sample something ain't right..chuck
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5/20/2004 5:03:48 PM
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pumpkinpicker |
Ann Arbor, Mi
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Boron at 277 ppm...patch should be dead!!!!
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5/20/2004 5:19:01 PM
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Green Rye |
Brillion Wisconsin
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I'm by no means am a expert on interpreting soil test numbers. What I do know is if this was my soil test I would be tilling in a good supply of Hi-Cal Aglime asap.
Check out www.glcalcium.com/aglime.html
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5/20/2004 6:43:05 PM
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Engel's Great Pumpkins and Carvings |
Menomonie, WI (mail@gr8pumpkin.net)
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I am beginning to believe more and more...what the agricultural guy told me...A soil test is like tasting soup through an eye dropper. I truey believe if you sent the same 5 samples all the results would be different.
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5/20/2004 11:16:31 PM
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Tremor |
Ctpumpkin@optonline.net
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The law of minimums dictates what the plants absorbs from the soil. Potassium as a for instance, need never exceed 500 lbs per acre or 250 PPM. Anything more the plant cannot use. Yet I see soil tests all the time that greatly exceed this quantity. WHY? Horse manure & excessive use of other potassium containing amendments. These amendments do add good organic matter & improve the physical condition of soils though. Plus they offer a "cusion" to avoid an in season draft down of potassium by the plant.
Just as important as where the soil that thousand pounder came from is now, is where it was *BEFORE* the plant spent 150 days feasting. The differnece is what was used & what should be replaced before trying again.
I have found that AGs suck Calcium & Potassium up like no other crop I've ever grown.
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5/21/2004 6:54:06 AM
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Joze (Joe Ailts) |
Deer Park, WI
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I agree Chuck, something aint right. Last fall i added probably 2 inches of leaves (good stuff, not the black walnut used in the past...lol) as well as some turkey manure. (which may explain the drop in pH) Also had a subsoiler come thru and make one pass, ripping to a depth of 18". I dont think this would alter my levels tho, cuz it doesnt move any dirt around, just makes a deep cut.
Other than that, everything else is the same. Methinks the lab is playing a mean trick on me.
Thanks for the input folks.
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5/21/2004 8:43:16 AM
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