ROCKWOOL: Absorbs Fertilizers

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by Robert M. [Bert] Hamilton (Compiler)

Originally published in The Orchid Doctor in 1980 and 1988

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During a dark winter the Electric Conductivity can double in the nutrient solution, so make it half normal strength; urea fertilizer applied to it hardly has a chance to be used before it is washed out again, before bacterial action can make it available to the roots. OA87-163; 201
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