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Clay pH, ReButtal - Thx !!! :>)

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>> Clay is usually pretty good pH and nutrient-wise, 
Bill
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>Careful, Bill. Even though you threw in the qualifier *usually,* your
statement is SO wrong about the clay in my part of the world that I wonder
where on earth such *good* clay can be found that makes you say this at
all? Certainly not major parts of the SE U.S.

>The clay where I come from, Bill, and for this whole area, is quite acidic. 
Mine's at 5.3 pH, which is horrendous for vegetablesJust had to speak up on
the issue of clay and pH.
Patricia
West Georgia, Zone 7b
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THANKS PAT !!!
The very BEST way I have found to get info, and I kid you not, is to do a
Silicon Valley Style open statement.  Sure as heck, you will get a result! 
LOLOL!!!!!  And when PAT speaks, I listen!  (And a half a dozen or so
others... at least.)

Anyway, I read this about clay, a LOTTA places.  Let me say, I BELIEVE it was
primarily about NPK and trace elements, tho, but I felt pH was meant also. 
THIS makes clay a ph LOW, (at least there at Pat's)  Correction is Base.  From
what I read, this tends to be a pain.  As the bases tend to be solids, and
need mixing with the soil, and time to migrate and react, or maybe the acid
migrates and comes into contact and co-neutralizes.  So a retest isn't tried
for a month or two minimum.

Let us hope then, his clay is LESS acid (low pH) OR the ashes info I have read
was correct, and the base has helped over time.   I read ashes are discouraged
DUE to this base effect... Again, I use them.  At most, a dozen grocery bags a
year, on a 50x100.  Grey, not black, paper ash.

I was in Oklahoma red clay, SW corner.  (Red River...<g> btm Oklahoma border) 
Crops were cotton and peanuts.  Hmmm, some of that area WAS brown tho...

Well, I actually LIKE to be corrected, when it is done nicely.  I like to
LEARN!!!  Funny, PTSD or what... I dunno, but like Farmer John said...
"You have NO idea how it [arguments] affects me."
A fun 'arguement,' is different of course.

My N,P,K,pH test kit does each of the 4 tests, 10x, for $15 total.  CA has no
Ag agent.  Crude test I hear, so I am very careful in using it.
Bill/Thx again for the additional...!

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