The soil I am using is a mix of aprox. 60% soil, 15% perlite, 15% peat moss,
10 % humus. I have had a very hard time finding lime here where I live, I´m not sure why but at the Home Depot the gardening sections don´t carry it, at the moment I am trying to find lime (CaCO3) at companies that produce and provide agricultural chemical additives, I´m getting closer. Any how, the point is that since I did not find lime I looked for an alternative soil corrector in the garden supplies area and found CaSO4 (calcium sulfate) which claimed to correct soils below 5,5 and above 8,2. The only thing is that the additive came in those tiny ballbearing sized pellets, so I tried pulverizing the pellets to a fine dust and dissolving it in water to give it to the plants...truth is I am not sure if this has made things worse...