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sputinc7 · 04-04-2017, 01:50 PM

All I know is a cupful of potassium sulfate sounds like too much. I used less than that on an established mat of Brazilians and other plants not so big and they just stopped growing for over a month. When they started up again they choked on coming out for a while, too.

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