Too many salt
I was building a soil and did a big mistake in the salt quantity adding 10x more... Is this a huge problem? Can I fix it?
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first we need to know how you added more salt was it 10x more in the dilution of salt to water (i.e. 300g of salt per liter) or was it 10xs more the diluted salt water (i.e. 10k ml per gallon of SW) and how/where was it applied (i.e. a garden bed or an open field)
From the KNF library
From the KNF library
Drafted by Claude from Office Hours and the books
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Sep 2026
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The library's rate for sea salt is 1 gram per liter of fresh water (Cho's Solutions, p. 15). Master Cho's soil recovery list gives the same strength: sea salt diluted 1:1000 (Office Hours Ep. 54, 52:04).
The Pure KNF Manual's 30-gallon recipe uses 120 g of sea salt in 30 gallons of oxygenated water (Pure KNF Manual, p. 53). Dissolve the salt, then drench deep into the soil (Pure KNF Manual, p. 53).
For high soil salt, Master Cho lays a 1.5-inch mulch of cut corn or rice stalks. Drake prefers cut wild grass (Office Hours Ep. 47, 19:50).
The library does not say whether 10x that rate harms soil, or how to reverse it.
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- 19:50 Office Hours Ep. 47 (Sep 2022) — LAB for Laundry, Mulching to Stop Evaporation, Coconut Sprouting · “What mulch stops evaporation and high soil salt? A: Master Cho cuts corn or rice stalks into a 1.5-inch mulch layer; Drake prefers cutting wild grass with a sickle bar mower.”
- 52:04 Office Hours Ep. 54 (Oct 2022) — Water-Soluble Phosphoric Acid, Chitin, Bare-Root Tree Planting · “seawater diluted 1:30 or sea salt diluted 1:1000”
- p. 15 Cho's Solutions · “Make from sea salt: 1 gram of sea salt per liter of fresh water”
- p. 53 Pure KNF Manual · “30 Gallon Recipe 1 gallon sea water or 120 g sea salt 30 gallons of oxygenated water Procedure Dissolve salt in water. Use Drench deep into the soil”
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