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Jun 19, 2017 1:52 PM CST
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Quoting from U of Maryland Extension on Epsom salts for BER:

“This is one of the big gardening myths. There is no calcium in Epsom salts. It’s magnesium sulfate. If anything, the Mg cations could compete with Ca cations for uptake by plant roots making blossom-end rot even worse"

https://extension.umd.edu/site...

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