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Cheyenne,WY

Thank you Steve Geddes for providing additional information about your soil. I never realized mine were so far off until I saw your numbers. I'm sure this will help other growers as well.

You can view the full details on:

http://tools.pumpkinfanatic.com

Click on the link to view the family tree, click on "detail" to see the additional information he entered, you will need to scroll down to look at the soil information.

10/8/2012 12:23:54 AM

Germany

It´s great to see some of the environmental paratemers the big pumpkin was grown in (especially some soil details). I´m just wondering what the "percentage" does mean in some cases:

Nitrogen 19.00
Percent of Potassium: 84.00
Percent of Phosphorous: 227.00
Percent of Organic Matter: 3.40

For organic matter 3.4% looks like possible, but 84% of Potassium just can´t be. Was it 84 ppm or 840 ppm?
Also, Phosphorus should probably be something like 22.7 ppm or 227 ppm, and nitrogen perhaps 19 ppm or 190 ppm.

Any suggestions what the correct concentrations could have been?

Soil pH of 6.1 makes me happy, because I also have a sandy soil and pH around 6. Now I´m just wondering what the Mg and Ca levels could have been.

Anyway, a big first ThankYou to Steve Geddes for sharing some details.

10/8/2012 5:43:10 AM

Boscawen, NH

The numbers shown on my soil are "parts per million" not percent. I never get too concerned on macro nutrients (N, P & K) since I feed weekly or even biweekly with a water soluble. I am not happy with the organic matter % and the PH but both of these are difficult to bring up with the very sandy soil I have. My PH dropped .8 during the growing season. I worked hard this year to get the ratios of the micro nutrients balanced and I believe this helped quite a bit.

10/8/2012 8:34:53 AM

Glosta

Steve can you email me at [email protected]

I have a few questions on your "balancing"

10/8/2012 12:09:23 PM

West [email protected]

Most don't but you did thanks Steve

10/8/2012 10:21:56 PM