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Peace of Mind make a fantastic organic bulb food
Soft rock phosphate and rock phosphate
are important shortand long-term ingredients. I like granular
rockphosphate(RP)forasuperlong-termphosphorussource.Irecyclemysoilmix,soIamreallyplaying
into the strengths of long-term nutrients like this. Soft rock phosphate (SRP) is powdered, and along with
delivering very available phosphorus at a medium to slow release rate, it also has many other trace, micro,
andsecondarynutrientsaswell.Thisadditionalsohasareallybigbenefitforanycustomsoilmix,andthat
is how it seems to counter a natural chemical reaction in the soil mix. When high-power nitrogen sources
(like blood meal, alfalfa meal, and guanos) meet lime, some of the nitrogen converts into ammonia gas,
which is just another form of nitrogen. However, when some powdered SRP is added to your custom soil
mix, this does not happen. If you have ever mixed up a batch of soil and let it sit, then noticed it smelled
like ammonia, this is why. I keep the ratios of SRP in the soil mix on the low side, due to the fact that
too much of it (or any readily available phosphorus) will inhibit the good fungi, including the Mycorrhizal
fungus.
