gravekat303
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Go buy organic strawberries at trader Joe's or whole foods, go buy regular strawberries from your grocery store... eat them and report back. ;)Just always kind of assumed it was a bunch of bullshit, as is the organic food industry.
Seems to be a lot of anecdotal "evidence" in terms of better tasting/smelling
Nice but kelp in compost tea!? How much?Hey guys! I'd like to shed a little more light on Compost tea! I think alot of people get carried away with ingredients and such!
Bubble your water to remove chlorine, then add some humic acids to neutralize the chloramine(dilute this solution BEFORE mixing with water)
Kelp Meal mixed BEFORE putting into your brewer or bucket
Good aerobic compost(.2lbs per gallon) as Elaine Ingham States there should be of thousands of bacteria in each field of view, 1 strand of fungal hyphae in each 5 fields, 1 flagellate or amoebae in each 5 to 10 fields of view and 1 beneficiall nematode per drop. I usually have my scope set at 500x to get proper readings.
If not enough fungi I'll add some oats, if not enough bacteria add some more compost in very small doses and examine again, until your reach the measures from above.
Fish hydroslate is also a very good food! Especially if you don't have a microscope. Don't let recipes get out of hand! Compost and kelp are the best sources and compost is free!
Honestly if you're super into Teas and compostand trying to achieve the best results...a microscope should be your top priority! I recommend you to 2500x. Most of these can be hooked up to a computer which is great when your starting because you can save images and compare to online, and they are usually only about $250! Which is cheap honestly.
As a "inorganic" farmer, none of what you just said is accurate in any way.
The organic food industry is a load of shit because it's highly unregulated. It's paying twice as much for the word "organic" on the box in most instances.
Lmao @ yields falling.
The organic industry is bullshit? Lol
Why are nutritional values falling at an alarming rate in the inorganic industry then? Lol
Why are yields and taste falling in the inorganic industry? Lol
Why are more and more fertilizers having to be used by the inorganic industry then? While organic no till farmers are using less and less?
Tons of scientific evidence supporting every one of my claims.
As a "inorganic" farmer, none of what you just said is accurate in any way.
The organic food industry is a load of shit because it's highly unregulated. It's paying twice as much for the word "organic" on the box in most instances.
Lmao @ yields falling.
I'm not even going to read those because they have nothing to do with the true organic farmer. I'm sure this is all commercial
Nope you're wrong just look at almost every bottle sold it clearly states NPKIt isn't imagined that the pot is better. Like I said research influences by enzymatic activities on terpene and canabinoid profiles. Even when there is exoskeleton in the soil a plant reacts. It's why some guys use insect frass. You can't argue a subject you didn't bother looking into.
Research symbiosis of bacteria and fungi and plants while you're at it. Everything in nature is connected.
Plants don't eat NPK. Even though this is a touchy subject even among us here. I believe a plants diet is similar to ours. They actually eat peptides and nuceleotides. The first plants were more than likely carnivorous. When feeding your venus fly traps what NPK do you use?
It's actually pretty freaking easy! Why'd you give up after only 24 hours!?I love looking under my scope! Alot of fun to see all the life going on we can't see. At the same time I've wasted 24 hours of brewing only for it to be sub par lol had to hit with water then try a tea again lol it's a little difficult to obtain a proper tea. Why I am so against molasses, which in my experience is easier to go anaerobic.
Of course you can do no till coco but why move away from spm?Anyone tried a coco no till? I'm attempting to try one now, still in the process of ensuring everything is bio available, but I have no idea what to expect from it. Trying to get away from peat moss, and can't find any info pertaining to coco and no till. So hopefully either someone can give info or at least exchange some ideas
Not really, we're easy it's just tying to sink the myths. like someone trying to tell you sugar is better than high fructose corn syrupIt seems the organic crowd is easily triggered and highly opinionated :)
I like to think of it as more trying to educateI already said I have no bias towards organic. Just that I have no want/need for that route. Meanwhile.... organic pot farmers saving the world one plant at a time.
it only takes one seed to save the worldI like to think of it as more trying to educate
I like to think of it as more trying to educate
never boring on the organic thread,must be why you choice to stay here,lmaoEducating and force-feeding are two different things :)
Oh peat moss is not a renewable resource, trying to be as friendly to nature as possible.Of course you can do no till coco but why move away from spm?
Oh dude! Kelp is amazing in teas! Kelp is just flat out awesome. Kelp provides micro and macro nutrients, beneficial microbes, and stimulates microbial activity. I do 2tbsp per gallonNice but kelp in compost tea!? How much?
it has messages that attract lots of facilitative microbes, but as with anything, its balance. lots of really useful microbes can flip flop states, thank god for this redundancy or we might be mile deep in dinosaur shit still :-) Having microbes in a tea is one thing, but knowing these are the critical partners of your current crop choice is quite another. its likely nothing so much as the loss of oxygen, so much as the possible hazard of too much SNR more generally. if we said sun flowers have about 3-5 biological primer partner microbes, what would be the value in brewing a tea that have more than these 3-5? What is the hazard.I love looking under my scope! Alot of fun to see all the life going on we can't see. At the same time I've wasted 24 hours of brewing only for it to be sub par lol had to hit with water then try a tea again lol it's a little difficult to obtain a proper tea. Why I am so against molasses, which in my experience is easier to go anaerobic.
you can argue that about the supply of coco husk and rising sea levels, and or land loss, its likely not local to you, it has carbon miles, it leaches nutrients at a higher rate than soil, it harbors many pathogens, its easy to mess up pH, its usually buffered with lime or other and so this has added CO2 pay and so on, it tricks people using it in to imagining they have a moral high ground whislt standing them out on the same shakey platform as the rest of us :-) I think its hard to argue about peat and its risk to system stability while we use products in our lives which are made from palm oil and so on:-)Oh peat moss is not a renewable resource, trying to be as friendly to nature as possible.
Kelp is awesome but I'll just usually bubble that with some alfalfa.Oh dude! Kelp is amazing in teas! Kelp is just flat out awesome. Kelp provides micro and macro nutrients, beneficial microbes, and stimulates microbial activity. I do 2tbsp per gallon
Also I believe there are probiotic microbes with kelp
one mans data is another mans Brussel sprouts... we can only educate those willing to learn and even then we must pre fix our teaching with as far as we know today.....the ever expanding universe is in the very things we do everyday and our deeper understanding of it.Educating and force-feeding are two different things :)