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Water quality at the tree farm

 
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Long story short… I started noticing leaf and growth issues of trees on our container grown tree farm. I had the water tested and here are the very concerning results…

Sodium is 286 ppm while Calcium and magnesium are 3 and 1 ppm. This gives me a SAR of around 35. Yikes.

TDS is 851

pH is 6.9
Alkalinity is 245

Do I have any options here? Wife and I are in panic mode.
 
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Welcome to the forum! Sorry to hear about the panic mode.

You might try letting the water sit overnight to let things dissipate.

I basically quit gardening when I figured out that every time I watered I added calcium to the garden beds.

Invasive plants are Earth's way of insisting we notice her medicines. Stephen Herrod Buhner
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