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Here is a Jack Herer about 3/4 of the way through flower using the same mix that you're about to use. I recommend letting it cook for maybe 2 weeks or so. It works, but from my experience running a modified coots mix or another simple hand mixed recipe does better.
She's a beauty! Pardon my ignorance, but what do you mean by "modified coots mix?"
Thanks! The bag appeal was great but I wasn't a fan of the smoke
Some added ingredients into his mix, I've had a few plants in my line up that blow through the soil and want more
So I add a few things like bio char, Gro-Kashi, alfalfa, and a little more than the recommended use of his base ingredients
Helps me keep it closer to water only but that's my experience
I'm fairly new to organic gardening, and there's a lot to learn!
Hes referencing clacksacoots or "coots" mixShe's a beauty! Pardon my ignorance, but what do you mean by "modified coots mix?"
Teas are feeding the microbes and other life forms in the soil itself. I usually mix both N and P guano in my plants that i switch to flower. Since you're using teas pretty regularly, you can rely on the microbes to let the plant uptake what it wants, when it wants. Also, you can do 5oz/to 5 gallon bucket of liquid humic/ful-power in your tea, pre-brew. Hope this helps some. Also you can put some kelp meal in your soil, and then not have to make teas with kelp nearly at all, other then more kelp meal...
I also agree put the kelp in the soil not in the tea, it can actually inhibit microbial growth if you put it in excess, i mix very little into my teas. I use virtually the same tea recipes as that one but never add the maxicrop or neptunes harvest. Just use the dry mix, I add a little molasses and a little recharge to innoculate it let it bubble 24-48 hours and apply.
Proofs in the pudding, 7 week from seed nl5xhaze. Sitting in 7 gallon pots of my flower mix now.
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The things I would add to your mix is Oyster Shell Flour and Crab Meal or Insect Frass and Basalt.
Much obliged! I was wary of oyster shell flour as I thought that would lower the ph of the soil, does the oyster shell provide anything besides ca? Hadn't thought of crab meal, sounds interesting! what does that add?
Crab or Crustacean meal is a good source of Nitrogen, Phosphorous, Calcium, and Magnesium. It 's also a great source of Chitin that will help the plant fend off mold, mildew and pests. Strengthens the plants immune response.
Oyster Shell Flower will raise or stabilize your PH. It also has a great ratio of calcium to magnesium (very important).
The Insect Frass is cheap and works great as a tea, good for feeding the fungi. It's also a light NPK 2-2-2 pick me up that can be used into the 3rd week of flower along with adding Chitin.
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I thought I heard perlite was bad for microbes?
Hey @Onetwothree -- I'm skipping through your thread because I saw you mention using alfalfa during flower. My experience with it during flower has been bad IF too much is used too late in flower. You can cause some really larfy buds as the plant takes that 'information' and N and says, "Oh! I'm gonna make new LEAVES with this!" Yes, I ruined one girl pretty badly with it.
I LOVE alfalfa in veg, and I do put hay deep into my raised beds. I get sweepings for free from my local feed store. No, I don't know if it's non-GMO, I'm, sure the majority of it is not organically grown, but I prefer to pick my battles in that regard. Outside the issue mentioned above I've experienced no others.
I've never heard perlite was bad for microbes, but it IS unsustainable and it floats, so I personally made the switch to rice hulls years ago. Purchased from the same feed shop, it's a fraction of the cost of perlite. It is not, however, inert as perlite is, watch for rising pH in slurry tests (in other words, in this lady's opinion, you're missing the boat with organic if you're ignoring pH or believe that everything adjusts itself. Yeah, in a perfect world it does, but that takes some work to get right). Rice hulls take about two to three years to decompose.
http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/the-rhizosphere-roots-soil-and-67500617Thanks Sea. Yea, I never quite bought the "you don't have to worry about ph in organics"...just doesn't seem very scientific, although I'm guessing it might be less of an issue than when using salt based fertilizers. I'll remember that about the alfalfa, the dude who recommended it to me said just to feed in a tea once during flower, and not too late. I'll mix some into my soil mix.
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