have you ever wondered how much epsom salt you should use for your plants well in this
video we're going to get into it you're here with mark bowell at perfectgardens.com please
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into a couple different posts from the cal mag versus epsom salt first off i just want to say
thank you so much it's always helpful when someone posts back answering another person's question
just because i get so many questions every single day and i find it tough to be able to reply back
to everyone so first off the ed monsix he is suggesting one gram per gallon is equivalent to
25 to 30 parts per million obviously i recommend everyone to do their own research right if you're
going to use epsom salt i would recommend grab a gallon of water just like how this gentleman
is suggesting grab one gram added in whether you're using an ec meter or parts per million
and measure what you're doing so if you're going to get into just adding in one specific thing into
your product we've already talked about this law minimum law of tolerance starts to play
an effect when adding in one specific component obviously magnesium super important because it
is needed to make the plants look green you know we've talked about the chlorophyll molecule and
how everything's bonded around the one magnesium molecule so from rooster shooter 76 i actually
really loved what he suggested right here too is that he actually uses magnesium sulfate or epsom
salt but what he's also doing is he's throwing in oyster shells once a month and where he's getting
this from his local tractor supply as a chicken supplement and once again right i love this and
he's actually is consciously or unconsciously balancing everything out with the with the calcium
so first off i think the most important thing to do or and understand is what does magnesium
deficiency look like right so when magnesium deficiency starts to appear in your plants
you're going to see the green start to go to the veins of the leaf and the center portions and
i don't want to say the center but the outside portions of the leaf will start to turn yellow
so at this point most people are going to want to go out and buy calcium magnesium product or
even epsom salt just like how the other german recommended one gram per gallon is a good place
to start when it you add it back to your plants though how do you know when you've added too much
well how it appears is actually you'll begin to see a calcium deficiency within your plants
if you add too much magnesium once again that's why a lot of times these two products are combined
in the same bottles because a lot of times you might add in too much magnesium and it's going
to make calcium no longer be uptake into the plant so how does the calcium start to appear
it appears in small blotches on the leaves like little tiny dead spots in a sense at this point
very often when people start to add in too much of one thing they get really frightened they might
want to flush the plants which will be a good option most of the time other growers they might
start to mess with the ph and they start might start to go all over the place versus going back
to what they originally started to mess with let me go back to it and keep this video really simple
guys if you want to use epsom salt just know what magnesium deficiency looks like and what magnesium
toxicity will look like and how it's going to appear in the plant and if you're adding in the
magnesium and the green comes back and starts to look really healthy and then a day or two later
you start to see a calcium deficiency just flush your plants or just like how rooster shooter 76
suggests make sure to throw in some oyster shells once again always shows yeah they'll break down
but you really have to have a microbiology system going if you are going to go in the
oyster cell direction if your parts per million are going above a thousand and you're shutting
down your bacteria in your fungi well you might have to find a more water soluble product to add
with your magnesium i hope this video was helpful please remember to like share and subscribe have
a great girl everyone when you give it what it needs as it needs and you're not giving excess
water moisture and all these other things that cause other stresses like bugs or mold