Not much I can do about that😅 all I can do is pH down, but megacrop does that already. I’d rather keep away from baking soda. It only causes lockouts down the road.
The soil I got I don’t want to use again. I looked up ecoscraps and I see Scott’s attached to the name which means Monsanto. Anyways the new pots are coming soon and the soil I’ll see about getting soon. I’ll talk to my buddy tonight about it since he wants to help and I found a better soil source for a good price. If he insists on a minimum I have roots organic 707 mix to ask for .
Either way the ewc have added some more clay back into the soil. I think in my efforts to remove it all I neglected to realize just how dry my soil got when dry as dirt like a sun bake when layed flat. The fabric pot I have in my bedroom finally dried all the way after 2 months and it’s like a bag of dust now. I think I added too much perlite it almost seems like it’s all perlite in the bag when it’s dry. It was about half full and now it’s about a quarter. Once I get new soil I’ll just be dealing with high perlite content low nutrient soil. Microbiology in the soil needs moisture to survive in a healthy state if I remember and my soil structure is awful.
I’m not risking disturbing the roots and killing the plants, so I’ll have to work on learning what I have to do to amend the soil from “shit” to something decent to work with this should the problem repeat itself.
Let’s be real it will. My budget is too low and until I can get the supplies to get my soil properly organic and amended right I can’t say I won’t run into this again. Indoor gardening is new to me and I can’t grow outside, so all I can do is attempt to translate what I know into indoor, but even then it’s not much and it’s why I ask so many questions.