Quote Originally Posted by rhizome
Ding! And we have a winner!

Compost is a fertilizer as much as ammonium nitrate is- and there may be a bit too much compost for some of your plants.

Also- all that peat and no lime? What's keeping pH in range?

Promix comes in a bunch of differant packaging, and differant varieties- I really like the BX, which comes in a grey/silver bag or bale.

Equivalents are Sunshine, Faffrd's ( actually how they spell it). Home Depot will usually have one of the three, varying by region. Agway as well, if ya got one.

Umm- if you're using a soil that's proud to contain compost, and yer NPK testing w/ 0ppm results, something's wrong... Why isn't the compost showing up?
I'm not sure but everything is coming out pretty clear in the test kit. It's a crappy color test kit, not a ppm digital meter.

As far as what's keeping the PH down. I use ph down in my water and use it at every watering. If I use ph 5.9 my soil run off tests between 6.3 and 6.6.

The soil itself is probably about 7. My tap is 7.7ph, and if I water with that my soil run off is 7.3-7.4.

luckily these were just put into these pots not too long ago. I'm going to see if I can pick up some of this stuff tomorrow and some more pertilite and transfer the rapid rooters into the new soil.

Thanks rhizome. As you can see I'm a complete moron when it comes to plants. :thumbsup:

edit: wouldn't me flushing the soil prior to using the potting mix have removed the nutes?I was pretty thorough I thought .

either way better to start off with something people knows works. Thanks again!