Pond Boss Forums GENERAL QUESTIONS Water chemistry Liming completed- what next?

Pondbosses-

Ok we completed our liming- we put 52 tons in a 23 acre lake. All of it went in by spraying lime in with a gas powered water pump off of a pontoon barge. We were able to spread it over pretty much the entire lake.

It was a huge job but we got through it. Looking forward to the next steps so-

Here are our water quality numbers from BEFORE we limed-
calcium 7ppm
magnesium 3ppm
sodium 14ppm
potassium 5ppm
boron .06ppm
carbonate 0ppm
bicarbonate 38ppm
sulfate 22ppm
chloride 21ppm
nitrate less than .01ppm
phosphorous .03ppm
pH 5.94
conductivity 118
hardness 2 grains CaCO3/gallon
hardness 29ppm
alkalinity 31ppm
total dissolved salts 109ppm
BAR 1.1

So my questions are:
-how long should we wait until we fertilize (we haven't done so yet this year)?
-And how long should we wait before we get another water analysis from A+M?
-Obviously we would like to see a meaningful change in our ph so how long would you think that would be?

Thanks again!

Fertilize now. The alkalinity is good enough as is and will improve over the next few weeks. Wait a mth and get another analysis. Ph changes during every 24 hour period. Don't worry about pH if your alkalinity is over 20ppm. See this from the archive first.

http://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=96127#Post96127