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["Ernest Plutko" <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>]

No it doesn't.  

---- Original Message ----
From: jimfruth@charter.net
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Saving over-fertilized plants
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 10:29:19 -0600

>Mark Wessel asked, "I understand leaching out excess fertilizer with
>large 
>amounts of water. However I am not sure how gypsum plays a role in
>this 
>process. Could you explain."
>
>
>    Water alone would likely not remove fertilizers from
>over-fertilized 
>plants.  This explanation will be over-simplified:  As it was
>explained back 
>in my soils class, soil particles and organic matter possess positive
>and 
>negetative polarity/sites that form a weak chemical bond with the
>cations 
>and anions of fertilizer.  Many of the cations of fertilizer have a
>valence 
>(charge) of +1 and the calcium in Gypsum, with its valence/charge of
>+2, 
>displaces  the 1's and bonds to the site itself.  Does that make
>sense?
>
>Jim Fruth
>Brambleberry Farm
>Pequot Lakes, MN  56472
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