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That top dress should hold you over through flower. They are trying to sell more product. It will take about 2 or 3 months for all of the kelp meal to reduce to carbon depending on how often you use enzymes or beneficials.
Alfalfa meal is great but be careful. It's hot stuff. It has growth regulator hormones. People tend to think the plant can actually utilize this hormone which isn't true however hormones are amino acids which microbes love! Enzymes!
Cool. I just read that about Alfalfa - maybe will hold off considering hormones. The book Teaming with Nutrients has a good section I just found, on organic supplements and the pros/cons of each. They also recommend POWDERED Kelp, instead of MEAL, if you want a faster uptake. Goes in fast and lasts a month... might be better for short cannabis grows.
Per your last post - my better half is an herbalist, and the amount of medicinal herb waste we create is crazy. I've started feeding it to the worms. So much variety of organic medicinal herbs. Other than that, we eat a large variety of organic veggies, so they are getting lots of different things. I'll check out buildasoil.com as well.
It's is overwhelming, I just but the bullet and picked a line and ran with it. I'm using the CANNA line pretty much following the feed schedule with minor adjustments.
I hear ya. I'm doing my best to push through and try and figure out the details. I always have that apocalyptic voice in the back of my head that says, "what if we go in to a great depression, and all the grow shops close? How will I grow weed?!?", LoL. I've had to humble myself a bit in this process, and accept the fact that it all takes time.
I started using homemade spikes for "timed" feeds. Get the spike material in the soil before the roots grow out. I punch a small 1/4" to 1/2" hole in the soil near the edge of the pot and drop in either a high N spike.
Really like this idea. I just ordered the Rev's book. Any information helps.