I am currently growing 3 strains:
Blue dream
G-13 labs "cheese"
Citron
SOIL SETUP
-fox farms ocean forest
-alfalfa meal
-kelp meal
-azomite
-granular humic acids
-neem seed meal
-insect frass
-Bokashi
The ammendments I use are mostly "down to earth" brand and I swear by them.
Once the plants are situated and happy then comes the compost teas. Of which I use 5 different recipes depending on necessity and plant progression.
Ill link the actual tea recipes later on tonight. As for now, photos inbound
Oh I love hortilux! And they last a while. Been growing constantly with my latest one for the last year and a half. I think 6 flowering cycles its been through And it still has great light output.
Id like to make the switch to LED but I have no experience in it.
FEEDING AND TEA
I use a few different methoods as far as feeding my plants but the soil composition is key. If the soil has everything the plant already needs, then the soil and microbes therein only need activation. Ive found with living organics that if the soil is lacking on protozoa then the plant has a harder time breaking down granular ammendments as it cant uptake the solid. There is a fantastic product called "insect frass" and it is literally just bug poop loaded with protozoa. The protozoa digest and breakdown the solids and then they, in turn poop them out into digestable food for the plant.
VEG TEA RECIPE
1 cup -Earthworm casting (Enzymes)
1 cup -Bio Char (carbon cycling, bacteria and fungus colony)
1/4 cup -Rock phosphate (b vitamins, root growth, hormone production)
1/2 cup-Granular humid acids (helps microbial colonies build, soil inoculation and clean the soil)
1/4 cup -Blood meal (fast acting nitrogen)
1/4 cup -Neem seed meal (pest preventative and light full range NPK feed, fights bad pathogens)
1/4 cup -Azomite (trace minerals)
1/4 cup -Kelp Meal (70 trace minerals in kelp)
1/2 cup -Alfalfa meal (Triacontanol for all around plant vitality *protozoa love it*)
1/4 cup -Bokashi (Mycelium production)
1/2 cup -Insect frass (protozoa)