I tried to translate ph, calcium salpeter (Kalksalpeter)
fertilier, soil to make a better understanding, why soil and fertilizer has so much influence on color etc.
Could you put this in a decent english for me?
KYLE, HELP TRANSL: IN CG POST, MONIKA
Brugmansias like a slightly acidic soil PH. 7-7.5 seems best.Depending on local water conditions...some people may have to use rainwater(nuetral)instead of tap water.Well water is good too.Calcium saltpetre is calcium nitrate. In monikas case their water is lacking calcium naturally...so she has to compensate for it by adding calcium.Most locals in America seem to have enough calcium in the local water sources.Each grower might want to have their water tested for PH..a small test kit for water gardens can be used to test for water hardness.
Monika..is this helpful??
:-)
That was very helpful.Thanks a lot. I cannot find the equal word for salpeter in my Univ. transl. book. Salpeter is pure nourishment for the plant. It should be given only to growing plants. Nitrate must be first changed in the leaves of the plant into Salpeter, therefore nitrate takes longer, before it works.
Glory
Apr 14, 2002
I bought some Calcium Nitrate at the Co-op here it's 15.5-0-0....works pretty good....I have well water.
OT Calcium Nitrate question. Glory or anyone have you tried this on your plumerias or anything else? I received info from someone about it helping to increase the girth of plumerias. Also, does anyone think it would help with the girth on brugs? I'm going to post this on the Master gardener area also.
*lol* Kyle, thanks for explaining this. I learned from it, too. :) The conditions of soil and drinking water vary much. Here we have ph-level 7.5 + a bit in the drinking water and the soil is close to neutral or slightly above. Not far from here the soil level is 5.6. A Brugfriend in Copenhagen has heavy, plastic clay in his garden and his drinking water is full of ocre and iron, but on the Danish Rock-Island Bornhold the drinking water is 6.0 and sometimes less, so that is not always easy to advice someone asking, without first to ask to such varying conditions *lol* Even though the water here is 7.5 + I still ad plenty calcium to the water ... because I use a peat based potting mix with a natural very low ph-level. The Brugs will deveope deficiency symptoms in less than two weeks, if I forget this, because real many macro and micro nutrients are bound in a form where the plants can not use them, when ph sinks too low.