Yep! Love build a soil, basically slowly buying a bit of everythingLiving Soil is the way!
This year, Found some
Fish Compost
over at BaS , Called Olly Mountain. Feed Microbes!
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Oh I’m not opposed to it, just wanna see how the whole system runs the build a soil way, I gotta say, Jeremy don’t lie haha, the soils got it right out the bag till harvest, I coulda fed much heavier than I did but stayed light
was an unexpected addition and I have my main 3 spots but hey, why not lol
With living soil you don’t need to flush. I personal think it yeilds better than synthetic grows and the flavor is crazy.
I totally agree, the smell, the flavor, it’s really smooth. It’s been a fun way to grow.
It’s not fed the whole time. It takes time to break the organic material down. No chemicals are put in the soil. Only things that go in are organic compounds that are broken down by microorganisms, insects, worms to make the compounds plant available. It’s the most natural clean way to grow. You don’t need to flush because the plant is only taking what it needs where when you use bottles you are basically forcing the plant to take those nutrients up. And those nutrients were made plant available in a lab somewhere mixed with water and shipped to you.
It’s a big battery. I’m here to watch!
End of day your organic becomes magnesium and sulphur and npk .... soo its the same as synthetic you just have extra stuff from bacteria like some acids and who knows what.
Im full of chemicals, youre full of chemicals, plants are full of chemicals in the wild too, its no all harmful chemicals, most of them are part of how we work, everything alive contains chemicals needed to survive. Ideally you use a recipe to build a soil so you know that theyre not gonna have too much food or the soil is not gonna be saturated difficulting nutrient intake. If you prepare your substrate 3 weeks prior to use, the plants can uptake nutrients from the start, but if youre gonna plant from seed you might wanna prepare it the day before so the nutes start becoming more available towards the end of veg.
True, once its ready to be taken by the plant its just bassically nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. But there are major differences in synthetic compared to organic when it comes to whats inside the fertilizers besides the NPK. Here is a list of things you will most likely not find in synthetic nutrients that come inside organic and sometimes bio-mineral nutrients:
i never even heard of L and D aminoacids you sent me in to a rabbit hole.
I made a quick google search to make sure my information is not outdated because Im going just from memory and apparently there's a way now to synthetize L-aminoacids but is really costly compared to synthetizing D-aminoacids as the process in involved in making L-aminoacids results in an equal ammount of D- and L- aminoacids so they have to separate them and its not easy. Anyway, I would recommend looking the exact composition before buying any synthetic to make sure they do contain L-aminoacids, because when I was using synthetics years ago most of them didnt contain any at all, not D nor L. Much less all the benefits that kelp and other organic ammendments have like vitamins.
I use to use Epsom salt (magnesium sulfate) on every grow, then I realized that the dry amendments (Craft Blend, Gaia Green, etc) I was using had enough. Works if your in a pinch. I like that pump sprayer idea. With the sulfates I learned that as soon as they touch water, the molecules separate, you have straight magnesium and straight sulphur as a feed. They're not bound together when suspended in water. I think Gypsum works the same way, they are readily available on the initial feed , no break down needed.
One key factor that I learned (last week, from a book) is that synthetic nutes pass through the soil and are only absorbed at the root level on that said passing, organic feeds sit and stay in the soil and hang out at the root level ...big difference.
Yup, the plant can then decide what it wants to consume, living soil is like a buffet for the plant it can pick and choose what it wants and needs. Synthetics is like desert, give it a big piece of cheesecake and there might be enough of what it needs in that piece of cake to keep on growing but it’s definitely missing out on other non essentials that make it healthier. As mentioned above.
Well... thats not totally true. You can certainly burn your plants in organic if you use too much of one ammendment or with liquid organic ferts. The thing with organic and it has to do with what @Week4Bytch just mentioned is that the soil has more nutrient buffers and the nutrients release slower over time but you cant just go and mix a bunch of ammendments in the soil thinking the plants will take them only when they need them. Thats not the case because if the water is saturated with nutrients they will drink it anyway and get burned. In the US I see that there are several brands to choose from with blends where the ammendments have been meassured for you, but if you were given one bag of each ammendment and told to do it yourself, you would most likely put too little or too much of several ammendments unless you look for recipes online.
