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if you go too dry, you will normally experience a potassium deficiency. This in turn will almost al-
ways become a calcium issue as well.
Nuking Your plants With Nutrients
Thiscanhappenwithorganicliquidnutrientseasily,aswellasdrynutrientsifyouapplythemtooheavily,
and/or if you do not cook raw organic nutrients first into your soil mix. If you suspect you have done this
with liquid nutrients, flush the container thoroughly as fast as you can, and cross your fingers. If you have
done this with dry nutrients then it is almost always game over for those plants. Always cook any dry or-
ganic nutrients first into your soil mix before exposing living roots to that soil mix. Also, in TLO growing
you should only very rarely have to add liquid nutrients from a bottle, unless it is in a tea, in which case
those nutrient levels should be low anyway.
This plant has been totally nuked with nutrients
REV'S TIP
Locally you can find a lot of things like molasses, rice, and often inoculates
like mycorrhizal fungus; just make sure they are not older than 1.5 years from being packaged.
Health food stores often have stuff that would surprise you, as well as feed stores, and this is where I
source my alfalfa, crushed oyster shell, steer manure, and perlite. You can also usually find perlite in
Home Depot type stores as well, so ask in the outdoor gardening section.
