Wow that was a mouthful Very eloquent. Peace There are many passionate organic growers here. Gotta love the soil food web and the universe below our feet. Feed the soil and not the plant
thanks I posted that before the bowl hit LOL
I figgered........:smoking: I get all wordy and flowery too after a good rip....
quite, it is now undisputed that organics is a greener, more balanced and safer way to grow and feed the world, while maintaining environmental responsibility. We do have a lot of work to do. How many people still apply garden lime to soils? This is a common search result if you search soil acidification, but this plethora of bad data is what people will find and so they will apply lime and continue to destroy soil profiles..more on..more on...moron. There is a latency between academic research and SEO bots or practice on the ground. Poor practice like limimg soils is common place and yet no one really knows why they do it or why soils become acidic in the first place. The data is at best a sticking plaster from a time when human knowledge was less, at worst it is causing damage deliberately miss leading and dangerous.
I found one of your posts when I got here, it was fascinating and organic in base
A man after my own heart. Sounds like you know your chemistry. Just the carbon footprint alone in the mfgring of syn ferts is a tremendous burden to the planet. I am actually feeling guilty with my C footprint using grow lights as I dont have access to a secure outdoor grow site. Then there is and I am not bashing anyone but the whole drain to waste thing is not a very green sustainable way to go either. Yes most home growers arent the major contributors but it all adds up. Our industrialized way of farming is killing the natural balance of the soil and the planet.
And let me ask you this, did you ever at any point use the 2 week flush method? I'll bet if you did now that you are organic you are seeing better yields. I always felt that taking the nutes away during the last 2 weeks was counterproductive. Most strains pack on can most of their yield in last 2-3 weeks. Organics done right require no flush.
you are I think right mate. Do you use sup CO2 to make sure you are using every watt of light? I use 600 lamps with a sup CO2 called nano breathe, I make the product mate but not trying to flog it. It delivers sustainable intracellular organic nano milled and thermodynamic Ca, Mg and of course CO2 which is arrived by using both water capillary, and free H+ ions from the splitting of water during photosynthesis. It works during lights on to allow a third more electron transport than background CO2 at 350ppms. If I add this to phototrophs, I can boost added ppms CO2 by reusing waste gases from transpiration, pushing these back to the plant as CO2 via microbe slow release when needed. When I combine phototrophs with Breathe, I sit at about 650ppms CO2 with no waste, no fix vents, no closed systems. further I can apply my CO2 product on outdoor plants, increasing lux capacity from 40,000 to about 97,000 at 650ppms. So this all means I use every watt of power from my lamps light energy with zero waste, Users with lamps that are hid and above 400w per m2 with out augmenting co2 are wasting energy to the tune of about 40% or 200 watts per light hour in waste. Of course not many grow shop owers are going to stop you wasting money on a 600 cause that means more on the fans, more on the ducting, more of the blah.
never brother, I have known for a long time now that there is no correlation between the nutrients in a media solution, and the nutrients found in your plant cell/ plasma tissue. It makes no sense to try to drown a soil system to rid it of salts. It makes sense to run an organic acid that would sweep up and render harmless any excess if such a think ever existed in my gardens. I prefer to keep within safe salt levels, never run over 100ppms P etc, and I was lucky, an old wise man taught me years ago, less is more in soil and all nutes are luxury levels which we rarely need. I made my nutes to suit the 99% not the 1% of ultra greedy plants that is 1 in a thousand. We can boost if needed, but we cant really take away once we have tipped too much
Well said. Yes I use C02 augmentation, with my native desert temps I get better use from it due to higher room temps.
for sure, its a part package rather than solution on its own. I tend to run at about 26-27c at 650ppms CO2 and 65-70% rh. In summer I boost the CO2 to 1000 and am forced to run higher RH due to latent heat and my reluctance to continue to try to cool everything with high waste HVAC systems. We do have a larger grow that takes advantage of a cardboard sea water fed evaporation system but I cant get my head around ownig more hvac. The wonder that is glomus deserticola is extremely helpful as a stress reducer in the rhizo and the CO2 of course can regulate the guard cells with phototrophs being a good safety net also for higher temps imo.
Brother, you're using some acronyms I'm not familiar with.
Do you have any brochures or product data sheets on the system you described above.?(nano breathe) This technology is of interest to me. If so please PM me with the info as doing it via PM will keep this thread clean and keep you out of trouble with @logic unless you are of course in negotiations with him to be a site vendor.
Rhizophagy= eating of roots
Heres a link to the science https://www.researchgate.net/public...A_New_Dimension_of_Plant-Microbe_Interactions
Well thank you so much. :D
