How much Acid does your pool use?
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Comments (3)Or you could pressure can it. I just gave up on all the new recommendations on what needs acid now, and when in doubt, I process it in a pressure cooker. Congrats on your windfall. I have six nice trees coming into their glory now, and half a dozen old ones who keep on keeping on. I spent part of the morning making apple juice for jelly. I have picked some, as they ripen, but I think I'll just work up the drops I want, leave the rest for the deer, until I get my grapes harvested, then get back to the apples in earnest....See MoreHow Much Citric Acid
Comments (4)Not sure if it's any much different on a 40 versus 42 , but the sanitize cycle does a 10 minute prewash and then dumps it out before it then does a long cycle. When I do that, I usually put it in the dispenser, as all that product goes out on initial pre-rinse on sanitize on my 4840 if I dump it into the tub ....See MoreHow to Acid Wash Pool Deck
Comments (8)Thanks to you for replying. The deck crew busted a pipe under the deck and we didn't know until pool startup. Ended up being a pipe to a bubbler. The plumbers broke the deck and found the pipe, fixed it, another crew came out and repaired the deck. It doesn't match. Probably because it is HomeDepot bagged concrete and not poured from a truck like the rest. The deck crew told me to acid wash it and it'd match! I'm thinking not. As they supposedly acid washed the rest of the deck but it is way too gray! Our old pool was also aggregate and not this gray. I was told they waited to long and didn't hand seed it enough. I've requested that the PB come out to personally see it. Here is the patch job and you're eyes aren't fooling you...the cut was not straight. We've spent way too much and I hope I'm not being a difficult customer. Would you accept a new pool this way? this is the deck. you can see all the gray and not many stones. they have already acid washed it once. In the upper left corner of the pic you can see the contrast of the patched deck. This is our pool. I really love the way it turned out even with the problems....See MoreWhat does too much humic acid in the garden look like?
Comments (54)Tricky... So you're saying you experienced Franken-weeds? Let's see, if weeds were growing at a prodigious rate, couldn't be killed and continued to return with a vengeance then it would seem your garden was indeed robust that year... its the very definition of ROBUST actually... it's just not the plants you'd desired apparently. Epilog: Due to the weather (really cold and snowy) I'd been putting off my trial planting experiment. Well two weeks ago, I finally got around to scooping up soil from the beds and putting it into large plastic cups. Took out left over vegetable seeds from the summer past and sowed them into the cups. 8 cups in all... radishes, turnips, beans, carrots, lettuce, spinach, beets, and broccoli. Put the planted cups under grow lights in the basement. Just TWO DAYS later the radishes, turnips, lettuce had all sprouted... the NEXT DAY the broccoli, beets and the first bean plant showed up... TWO DAYS after that all the cups had germinated (carrots and spinach were the last to emerge... not what I would have predicted). This was certainly a good sign as it means germination has not been compromised... now to see if any of the first real leaves will appear deformed. I figured by the time I begin to see the second set of real leaves there should be no doubt that the roots are functioning within the soil supplying the plant with nutrients as the embryo leaves start to wither. Today makes it one day short of two weeks since PLANTING the cups and all plants have at least two sets of real leaves! (I've been giving them 14 hour days and the cups do get a little warm under the lights so that likely explains the speedy germination and growth rate.) All are very green (as I'd expect) and growth rate is exponentially accelerating every day so I don't know how much longer I can keep this experiment going... especially the bean plants (re: "Jack and the Bean Stalk" anyone?). I'll probably give it another week... by then the plants will be killing each other out as you can't expect to grow a half dozen or so plants in an 8 ounce cup for very long. Actually they are already fighting with each other (carrots, spinach, and broccoli are the exceptions so far... I'm sure in another week it'll be a different story for them as well). So to answer my own question (refer to the title of the thread)... I've determine the answer to be... wait for it.... NOTHING. Wow, what a long journey to discover there is nothing to fear with applying massive excess humic shale to the garden.... could it be its all a scam? That's another question for another thread for another time....See Morejjs_austin
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