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I have two 3 acre ponds on my property that have similar pH's both fluctuating around 7.4-8.5 depending on time of day. I have really struggled to get the the alkalinity up. right now its right around 20ppm in both ponds.
In hopes of a quick fix I added Calcis to both ponds and saw significant bump in calcium hardness and a little bump in alkalinity. I'd like to be in the 50-60ppm range and realize it's not an overnight fix.
Is it too aggressive to add 5 tons to the acre and then possibly repeat application in the fall? I'd like to correct situation and not have to lime annually.
Really struggle with getting a good bloom, but man am I good at growing FA! Hoping that by raising the Alkalinity it will work on the FA a little too... Cutrine Plus orders are killing me.
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Have your water and dirt tested to id the limiting factor. Do you have high water flow through ? You could add ag lime and that would help for a time as you noted but it may not fix the problem long term as water reflects the soil.
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Have had water and soil tested. Water Tests: Turbidity- 4.24 Conductiviity- 78.9 Free Reactive Phosphorus - 97.9 DO- 6.69 Total Phosphorus- 132.8 Alk <10 (Has since been brought up to around 20) Total Hardness 22.659
Soil pH is 5.2
Quick rundown on the algae maybe I'm getting too detailed here CP1 Low densities overall, < 200 cells/mL, but good types to have in general Some Synura, Scenedesmus, Chlorella, Elakatothrix and Cryptomonas.
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Last edited by ewest; 05/09/17 03:03 PM.
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P -l 82 K -l 35 Mg% 12.4 Ca% 65.9 Ac - .6 S-l 480 ZN-l 150 Zn-Al 150 Mn-l 62 Mn-A1 54 Cu-l 186 CEC 3.6 BS% 83.2 HM% .13
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Two suggestions from my own experience...
One, if your budget can handle it, use more ag lime than officially recommended. You can't use too much.
Two, have the ag lime worked into the soil. Disc it, preferably.
7ac 2015 CNBG RES FHM 2016 TP FLMB 2017 NLMB GSH L 2018 TP & 70 HSB PK 2019 TP RBT 2020 TFS TP 25 HSB 250 F1,L,RBT -206 2021 TFS TP GSH L,-312 2022 GSH TP CR TFS RBT -234, 2023 BG TP TFS NLMB, -160
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