Joint compound as fertilizer/conditioner

[jangchub]

I see...you are WAY over the naive line, in that case! :)

[Cheryl Isaak]

Yes M'am! C

[symplastless]

Calcium is an element not a nutrient. Comosted wood and nurse logs add calcium, the element.

[jangchub]

Nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium, iron, copper, maganese are also elements and also nutrients when used by plants after breaking down into forms root hairs can uptake those nutrients.

[Eigenvector]

comosted means - since you chose to get technical. Might as well go all out and learn all I can.

[dr-solo]

"Nutrients Nutrients are those organic and inorganic compounds that a living organism must acquire from the environment to support essential life processes, including basal metabolism, growth and maintenance of body tissues, activity, reproduction, and maintenance of general health. Nutrients are normally obtained by the ingestion of foods. Organic nutrients include carbohydrates, proteins or amino acids, lipids, and vitamins. Inorganic nutrients include minerals. Water is sometimes included in a listing of nutrients."

scientifically speaking, calcium is both an element and a nutrient. Few elements are found in an unreactive state, calcium is not one of them. Ingrid

[symplastless]

Composted means the symplast has died and the wood has begun to break down.

[symplastless]

Composted wood chips would have sat in a pile for at least one year.

[Eigenvector]

You appeared not to have read closely enough. What does **comosted** mean - that is what you wrote. I'm fairly certain I know what composted means. Since you felt obligated to call me out on a technicality, I felt obliged to do the same.

[Charles]

I printed out this post and put it on my lawn. I can see the grass starting to turn green already

[Omelet]

Took me a second to get that. Then I was ROFL! ;-D

Thanks.

[jangchub]

The key to youth is immaturity :)

[symplastless]

I am not trying to call anybody out on anything. If I said my foot was connected to my nose I would hope you would do me the same favor and tell me my foot is connected to my ankle. It was not an attack it was just simply saying that a element is not a nutrient for a tree. Again composted would mean that at least the wood chips would be symplastless. When we chip up a branch with a webwork of parenchyma cells (symplast) it smears the protoplasm all over the place. The micros that attract defenseless cells is attracted to the protoplasm. So to say that the material is composted would at least mean it was symplastless. Also the longer you compost the wood chips the less likely you are to get artillery (sic?) fungus. Sorry that you took it as an attract. I am not calling anybody out. Do you accept my apologies?

[symplastless]

Who are you? If you want a green lawn try applying magnesium. The center are every chlorophyll molecule is magnesium.

[Charles]

Actually, mine is rather green just from water and mowing. We have a lot of minerals in the water, and presumably the soil as well.

Magnesium does work well on the roses, though.

[symplastless]

Charles

Are you suggesting that roses are sensitive to magnesium?

[Charles]

I am saying that when I occasionally put a magnesium sulfate solution on the soil near the base of the roses that I notice the leaf color appears to be a darker green and the bloom color is more intense. (well, on the yellow rose, anyway, I haven't tried it on the others.)

And I only do it once a year.

[dr-solo]

Nutrient is a>substance that provides an energy source, elements, and other substances>essential for life,

[dr-solo]

try trimming a bit when leaving short comments.

[dr-solo]