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Cool bro and [FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica]Hau’oli Lanui!
That's cooool :icon_spin: :rasta2:The recipe that I came up with, (or fell into- not sure which), for the early-mid veg cycle (ie from cells->4" and 4" -> 1gal transplants),is going to be implemented into the programs of some grower/associate/bros who know a hell of a lot more about what they're looking at than I do, so there's something in the mix that I was outlining above that's working.
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That's cool, nether do I, but it's nice to speak to someone with Aloha spirit.Don't mean to disappoint, but I don't speak Hawaiian , bro. Was just wishing you Happy Holidays in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi.
Actually I think I misspelled it:suna 'poutice'? Did I mispell 'poultice'? Oops. Prolly shoulda just stuck w/ 'slurry'. I don't use it during early-mid veg anymore- the plant gets everything in the mix (that I was referring to ^^) except for N which is ridden according to the individual plant, pheno or strain.
I'm growing in soil, Roots Organics potting soil to be exact. I don't know what the breakdown of the soil is, as far as ratios. I basically use water-only these days, with an occasional feeding of EJ grow, or some molasses with EM1, not because they're deficient, but just to give them a little something extra. Most of my nutes are in the soil, and consist of guanos, glacial rock dust, bone meal, blood meal, dolomite, kelp meal. And lately I've been adding some mixed dry nutes like FF/Happy Frog to balance out the KWhat are you growing, what substrate are you presently growing in and what nutes are you using? What is your experience level? Because you are a new to organic growing, I'd advise you not to dive in here and I'd particularly advise you not to use any of the techniques piecemeal as they are part of a larger integrated program. You should also know that there's a large contingency of organic growers (ie soil webbers) who would question the efficacy of the homemade fermented nutes that I use and that are central to my program.
I can help you w/ some thread links that will get you started and answer some of your questions if you wish.
... I'm growing in soil, Roots Organics potting soil to be exact. I don't know what the breakdown of the soil is, as far as ratios. I basically use water-only these days, with an occasional feeding of EJ grow, or some molasses with EM1, not because they're deficient, but just to give them a little something extra. Most of my nutes are in the soil, and consist of guanos, glacial rock dust, bone meal, blood meal, dolomite, kelp meal. And lately I've been adding some mixed dry nutes like FF/Happy Frog to balance out the K...
You could work a bottled fermented catalyst (enzymes/amino acids/microbes and/or algae based) into your current program as an addie. I’ve used the first 4 products on the list and plan on trying out some of the others when my current supply of home brews begins to dwindle.I've never used a fermented nute before, but I did use bokashi ounce, I don't why I did that???
On Sunday, I handed off a gallon each of my "Grow" and "Bloom" ferments, 20 gallons of the inoculated rice hulls, (process outlined above^^) and a bag of crab meal to a fellow grower who likes the results I've been getting. He and another grower are going to use my application rates for brew, and the infused RHs and crab meal ratios that I use in a mix. Between the 3 of us, we are going to try to isolate, by addition and subtraction, what I've been doing to make my soil cook and give the microbes such a powerful boost at this growth stage- specifically what's factoring into the hormonal/auxin activity as evidenced in the vigorous and earlier than normal branch development and apical activity. Something in there has got at least one branch of the microherd excited....And it had some very interesting effects. Everything that I planted in that batch of soil developed unusual structure. Very short nodes with lots of shoots, but spindly stems:dull
I'm not sure what to make of it since at the time I had no knowledge of orgaincs, but I'd like to try it again in the future.
Again, mahalo, for the advice.
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