Devil XXL B and C

Plants did okay despite being almost killed during transplant to the final containers. I had applied a barley sprouted seed tea before transplanting, and the combination of potassium (K+) from the barley and high sodium well water (Na+) caused a bad cation imbalance of monovalent cations relative to divalent calcium (Ca2+) and magnesium (Mg2+). The osmotic pressure sucked the moisture from the plants as soon as they were transplanted and I thought they would all die. However, I was able to treat the well water using a kiddie pool with limestone that was activated using vinegar to provide exchangeable calcium to replace sodium in the well water. I also dissolved feed grade limestone in vinegar to make water soluble calcium (easier and larger scale than suggested KNF method using eggshells) and added Epsom salts for every watering to provide Mg. This water treatment was good enough and the plants recovered from that initial shock. So, yeah, farming is hard.