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Reminds me of a story a science teacher once told: Students from a science college were told at the start of a dance to have the guys on one side of the gym, the ladies on the other. The Dean told them that every minute they could move halfway to their partner across the gym. The math students knew that there would always be half a…

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Thanks for adding that John.

I’m assuming the biological interactions will play to the favor of the new culture. That if, against all odds, you apply too much calcium carbonate on a plot at the initiation of the new culture, the grapes-and-micro-comrades will efficiently conspire to keep the calcium carbonate, pH, Eh, etc. where they want…

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Your comments on calcium carbonate are correct, from a chemistry perspective.

However, this model doesn’t consider the impact of biology and their enzymatic capacity to breakdown and utilize limestone as a source of calcium.

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Yes John you’re absolutely correct on getting to the end game much sooner will take a temporary sacrifice. When I deal with growers transitioning I don’t like large amounts for the purpose of creating too much Ca on the surface (we don’t till in our amendments once permanent crop is planted) so when the grower injects a Phosphorus source it…

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