slowthestone

If you are using a nutrient feed line & following their recipe, and way back when you mixed your soil, ya added Dlime...you've got chaos happening in the root zone.
If you stumble into an acidic pH dilema, and use either Dlime of hydrated lime to fix it...same thing...chaos in the root zone.

The root zone likes a stable pH. Cultivators like a stable root zone.
Anywhere in the root zone, where root comes into contact with a lime, it starts slurping up that area's pH. Where you're wanting to maintain a steady, say, 6.5, the lime in there is forever bumping that up. Where ever it has settled, or runs down through during feeds/waterings...it is wrecking the pH you spent good money on nutes and a pH meter to maintain.

Do your girls a favor...save the limes for outdoor vegi gardening.

Blinebuddy

I dont agree. Dolomite lime is a great additive for that reason alone. if you water your plants with water thats been PH corrected to around 5.0 PH( with or, without nutes) it will allow the plants to uptake more nutrients, because its dropping the soil anywhere between 6.1-6.3 then back to 7 when the soil dries up. I always check my soil after watering with a PH soil meter and it always shows progress.

the reason I mainly say this is I have been told to do this exact process in a organic marijuana cultivation book made by Soma. he does the PH adjustment to allow his plants to eat more of the nutrients he puts in to his soil. his bud is some of the best there is, so I think i'll take his advice.

now, I do know if you use WAY too much Dolomite lime you can run into plant burning issues from buffering PH levels. maybe the experience you have had was from adding too much? everyone in Cannabis knows a little goes along way; better to do less then more.

just my two cents.

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