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Effective Watering in the Garden
... watering. It is especially important in controlling salts. If you have a good deep soil, excess water will seep down below the root zone, taking dissolved salts with it. Drainage will be no ... by the amount of dissolved salts present in a measured quantity. The combination of salts may vary from area to area, but the critical figure is usually that of Total Dissolved Salts (TDS), which is ...
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Plants Prefer Pure Water
... or melted snow, which are very low in all salts. Some of the salts in the soil will dissolve in the water ... to remove the salts. This procedure does remove some salts, which build up as a scale inside the kettle, but many salts remain in ... of many different salts, including calcium and magnesium. The salinity of water is measured by its electrical conductivity; the dissolved salts increase the ...
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Starting Seeds Indoors: Part 2
... , some weed seeds, and damping-off fungi. At higher temperatures beneficial organisms are killed and dissolved salts are released from the soil which may be toxic to plants. Fertilizer. Vermiculite, perlite, and ...
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California's Pink Salt Lakes
... as a percent, and refers to the total grams of dissolved salts in 100 milliliters of water. The total percent salinity includes all salts present, such as sulfates, chlorides, carbonates, magnesium, calcium and ... color the salt crust a bright green. Here they thrive in water with 33 percent dissolved salts, and where the salt forms a solid surface crust strong enough to bear the weight ...
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Cymbidium Society of America: Cymbidium Culture
... of the reasons for heavy watering in most areas is the need to leach out salts which accumulate from use of tap water. With clean, purer water, much less leaching is ... of the natural salts found in tap water. They will exhibit "leaf tip dieback" with continued use of "salty" tap water (defined as containing in excess of 500ppm of dissolved salts) if not ...
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Guide to Understanding and Managing Lakes: Part I (Physical Measurements)
... amounts of suspended and dissolved matter, particularly humic substances, yellow, red, and brown colors become more apparent. An infinite variety of dissolved and suspended, living and ... with low conductivity contain few dissolved salts, are usually clear, and nutrient poor (oligotrophic). In contrast, lake waters with high conductivities contain more dissolved salts, are often turbid, and ...
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Las necesidades de las raíces - - - - - The needs of the roots - - - - -
... go from nutrient deficiency due to excessive substrate leaching to a too high level of dissolved salts. The substrate tends to become packaged or compacted, reducing the aeration in the root space ...
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Concentración de sales en un substrato - - - - - Salts concentration on a substrate - - - - -
... sales son: Basic concepts Salts contents or salinity of a substrate is the total amount of dissolved salts found on the substrate. The most frequent causes for excessive concentration of salts are: Se ha ... mS/cm (mmho/cm), equivalent to 670 - 1340 ppm of total dissolved salts. Growing in plugs requires lower levels of total dissolved salts. A level of 4 mS/cm (mmho/cm) is considered to ...
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Forestry Glossary: X is for ... xanthic xerophilous xylem
... fresh water is scarce, or where water absorption is made difficult by an excess of dissolved salts. xylem (n.) Woody tissue of a plant. Xylem transports water and nutrients from the roots ...
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Water for Nepenthes
... I was told by a grower that anything below 100 ppm of dissolved salts is okay for Nepenthes. Some people are lucky to live in ... finally, hose water usually has too many minerals and salts in it to be real effective. Salts will begin to accumulate on the leaves and ... will suffer. Since carnivorous plants require a lot of water these extra salts could be damaging if used over time. I tend to keep ...
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