How much peat? 1 cup of lime to every ?
oh sorry, i use those home depot orange 5 gallon buckets. i dump them into a wheel barrow, then into a 100gallon stock tank.
right now im going with 2 buckets of peat, 1 bucket perlite. and a tad less than 1cup of that... organic traditions dolemite lime, its the stuff you get a home depot, i think epsoma makes it?
i really dont care much about the ph of the mix, as long as its like 5.2-6. i only test if im useing different products.
i would like to point out that i once used some peat i got from Home depot; while it was cheap, it had like...25% bark and twigs of somekind, and it needed very little lime.. like half the amount. while the bales of peat i get from ferti-loam are way acidic and absolutly pure peat, no twigs or bark or other crap.
for what its worth i used to go with 3:1 peat to perlite, but it seems like they do better with 2:1.
you might consider adding more peat if you are useing fabric containers, as i would think they sort of augment the oxygenation of the soil,and negating the need for alot of perlite? idk.
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oh and i use a product called drexel surfact 820 as a wetting agent. 100ml mixed into a watering can then watered into the mix, its a pita to get all of the mix wetted properly, what i do is water in the surfactant with my little watering can, then mix it in well, then wet the entire contents down with the hose, then mix again well.