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Old 04-04-2007, 10:04 AM
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npaden
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Default RE: Lime - Pellett vs. Powder

I might be wrong on the pelletized lime and how fast it acts. Doing some more reading most of the pelletized lime is a very fine powdered pulverized lime made into pellets with a binding agent. When it comes into contact with soil moisture it disolves the same as the fine powdered pulverized lime. The only drawback is that it might not be spread as uniformly as the pulverized lime.

Also with the pulverized lime it generally does have a small mix of larger sizes that will help to increase the ph over a longer period of time. Some of the stuff I read made it sound like 30% of the pulverized lime would be very very fine powder, 50% would be fine powder and 20% would be a coarse powder.

The pulverized lime is still is equally effective as the pelletized lime and there is no way that 400lbs of pelletized lime will do the same job as 6,000lbs of pulverized lime.

FWIW, Nathan
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