InTheBeginning said:

I thought I'd troll over here to say yes I have experience with this and actually it is a process used by giant pumpkin growers. (These pumpkins are not ones which I would eat) There is info on several websites. One can grow large and beautiful plants this way but at a cost to the fruit and the soil.

Can you elucidate what the 'herd' is and how it works?

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mrbong73 said:

Buddy,
The best thing you can do to restore your "herd" would be to top dress with some homemade compost or earthworm castings then hit it with an ACT made from the same compost source. (assuming it was made properly and contains the proper organisms).

Not sure what your ACT recipe is or if it is even alive to begin with.
So many people throw all their bottled nutes in and bubble it and call it ACT.

Here's a website you should check out.

Below is an excerpt.

"So much of what modern agriculture has done is to destroy these beneficial organisms in the soil, and on plant surfaces. The goal was to destroy specific pathogen and pest organisms through the use of toxic chemicals, but the beneficial, protective organisms were also killed. And the boom-and-bust-life-style, disease-causing organisms came back faster from those toxic applications. It takes a number of toxic chemical applications, and typically several different kinds of toxic chemical applications have to be made, to wipe out the whole set of beneficial bacteria and fungi, protozoa and nematodes, but it has been done. In typical conventional agriculture fields, bacterial numbers have been reduced from several thousand billion in the root zone, to only a million per gram. Species diversity has been lost, and the disease-selected, the beneficials destroyed. No wonder disease and pests are impossible to control after 30 to 50 years of warfare against the normal set of organisms in soil."

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Buddy Hemphill said:

Castings
Molasses
Norwegian AN
different guanos depending on life stage

I use Denali instead of castings every other tea.

Rabbit poo.


I'm not in an conventional agricultural field. I just have a few pots/planters inside. I reuse all the soil after it composts with a few other things, but mainly rabbit poo...they get fed alot of MJ sticks and their poo makes a great addition to the teas I use in my veggie garden. I'm think their poo may have stuff the indoor crowd couldn't handle...ie, bad micro's or bugs.

They smell alive. The results say its alive. But, alas, I have no scope. But I also have no doubt that my ACT is alive...so its cool.


If its so stupid you shoulda kept your mouth closed. Instead of giving me a link to HUGE AGRICULTURAL FIELDS.


Thanks for stopping by though


OK....I cant respond fast enough because you have edited your bullshit THREE times now.

Make up your mind for Christs sake.

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CT Guy said:

Buddy, stop acting like a piece of shit. ITB gave you a perfectly good answer. I would have said the same. Giant pumpkin growers are an excellent group of people to pay attention to because they have a lot of knowledge and push the boundaries of agriculture and growing with their experimentation. You have to know something if you want to grow a 1725 lb. pumpkin from a seed in only one season.

Take the chip off your shoulder long enough to learn something.

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CT Guy said:

Buddy, stop acting like a piece of shit. ITB gave you a perfectly good answer. I would have said the same. Giant pumpkin growers are an excellent group of people to pay attention to because they have a lot of knowledge and push the boundaries of agriculture and growing with their experimentation. You have to know something if you want to grow a 1725 lb. pumpkin from a seed in only one season.

Take the chip off your shoulder long enough to learn something.

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