@MrRojos you claim your not the most experienced grower, yet you insist on telling the most experienced growers on the boards they are assuming too much.....Blaze and even Markscastle, agrees.
I will ask you a couple questions, wonder if you can answer.
How can you grow a plant with optimal health with small indoor containers? How is your soil applying optimal amounts of nutrition? Minerals? How is your bacterial life? Please explain how this can happen with optimal results with indoor containers and small soil volumes from (yes I am assuming) fresh soil?
Here is some real information, from a real agronomist. Not Hightimes! (face palm)
All info in italics are quotes from other sources.
John Kempf is a leading crop health consultant and designer of innovative soil and plant management systems. John is the founder and CEO of Advancing Eco Agriculture.
John, a member of the Amish community, grew up on a fruit and vegetable farm in Northeast Ohio and experienced first hand the challenges faced by many crop producers. Growing fresh market vegetables since 1994, John witnessed intensifying disease and insect pressure on crops which gradually failed to respond to the usual pesticide treatments.
John is an internationally-recognized speaker on the topic of biological agriculture and plant immunity. He has a unique ability to simplify and clearly explain very complex concepts in the areas of soil and plant health. He skillfully discusses the larger social and environmental impacts of food, agriculture, and ecology.Through intense study, the knowledge gleaned from many industry leaders, John began building a comprehensive systems-based approach to plant nutrition - a system solidly based on the sciences of plant physiology, mineral nutrition, and soil microbiology.
John’s mission is to provide support to the world’s farmers and globally impact our food supply. He founded Advancing Eco Agriculture in 2006, which has quickly become a leader in the area of soil and plant nutrition. To learn more about John, visit his LinkedIn profile.
Ok, now for some science: Keep in mind we are talking optimal plant health, and what those different stages are. Just because your plants are big and green, really doesn't mean a thing.
Now before I move too fast, is everybody with me?
So I asked, "How can you grow a plant with optimal health with small indoor containers? How is your soil applying optimal amounts of nutrition? Minerals? How is your bacterial life? Please explain how this can happen with optimal results with indoor containers and small soil volumes from (yes I am assuming) fresh soil?"
Can somebody now see the connection between plant health, and the ability to keep that plant in full health. If you understand the process in which Mr. Kempf was explaining in the video, that can't happen in small indoor containers. You need soil that is mature, full of bacterial and fugal compounds, ph stable, mineral rich that is plant available, ext ext.
I have a ton of proprietary information that I attained at a seminar in which John Kempf was a speaker, plant sap seminar. He really dove into why plants need to maintain rapid growth. It's clear as day to me. If anybody cares for me to continue, I will. However I wont respond to negativity.
Just food for thought, listen from the point I started the video, up to 32 seconds. That gives you an idea on what you need to learn/know to fully understand what I am talking about. So many facets in growing, just saying more veg time equals bigger yields is ignorant.
