You are wrong on that one SteveSteve Johnson wrote: ↑Sat Mar 07, 2020 2:22 am Rain in the desert almost always comes from thunderstorm activity.
Because thunderstorm in desert are dry thunderstorm
I quote
Upon clicking the "evaporates before reaching the ground"Dry thunderstorms generally occur in deserts
A dry thunderstorm is a thunderstorm that produces thunder and lightning, but most or all of its precipitation evaporates before reaching the ground
Had all that moisture and nitrate reached the ground, there would have been no desert...In meteorology, a virga is an observable streak or shaft of precipitation falling from a cloud that evaporates or sublimates before reaching the ground.
There would have been lush green...
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Also...what seems to be apparant, doesnt always the real solution
1) You had an headache...you toke paracetamol and your headache was relieved...
2) You had an headache again...you went to doctor and it turned out that your blood preasure is high...you toke blood preasure medication...your headache was relieved...
Which one, according to you, is the real solution for your headache?
Same with acidity for calcicole desert cacti...i just dont think it's right...mother nature can't be wrong,...
Because...had it been right, than i would have struggled in raising my desert cacti...but that is not the case...
As you put it, "growth retardant"
The 1st thing i do as a gardener would be to mimic mother nature...not create some environment which is completely new...
Or every farmerin this world...they try to mimic mother nature as close as possible to gain a max yield
I have never seen a farmer who grow tomato on alkaline soil...
Remember...i use straight appartement tap water which is alkaline and fertilizer (which is acidic and will melt some Ca2+ ions from my limestones and render my medium alkaline)...
Then you say...i'am not long enough in raising them for the effect to be noticable...
What is long enough according to you Steve?
2 years or 3 years of unchanged media?...when would you change your media, when you judge your media has too much salt buildup?
EDWIN