Someone asked in PM about my recipe and tactics... figured I might as well holler it out loud to everyone here in case anyone else cares...
I mix it by the trash can...
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I use foliars and drenches occasionally of aloe, coconut water and my premixed (150g/1liter) Agsil16h...
added to that for foliars I use neem, lemongrass, rosemary and citronella oils... only in veg. I spray nothing after budset.
drenches dont get the oils but they are for flower.
I use 1gal glass jars with 60gal aquarium pumps with open tubes... I chop off the ends when they get dirty.
In these I aerate items... mainly kelp and barley seeds... the seeds are for sprouted seed teas... the pumps give enough dissolved oxygen to germinate and keep the seeds going completely underwater... I dump day 1 wash, and use day 2 & 3's water directly drenched or foliar'd... the kelp I let bubble a week or so... same thing... foliar or drench... might have to let it settle a minute and pour the liquid off the top leaving heavier solids at the bottom... I usually reuse the kelp mud once.... doing kelp now...
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I make my own bottled nutes out of dynamic accumulator plants each spring... I fill a 5 gallon vessel and after decomposition, I'm left with about a gallon. I use it at a teaspoon-tablespoon/gallon watered in. This last round was comfrey, dandelion, and stinging nettles primarily... it is still not quite ready.
The same process is used with whole, pureed fish. lactobacillus is added to speed decomposition and help fight odor.... this results in fish hydrolysate. the fish hydrolysate is finished when it is a greyish liquid that no longer stinks. at this point any remaining bones can be strained out.
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I make my own lacto using rice wash and milk...
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the rice left over, if not eaten can be placed in a container, tupperware with small holes in it works well...
bury it in a grassy field... not a wooded forest... dig it up in 3-4 days... the rice will be covered in green and blue molds and simply innoculated with microbes you can then add to multiply in your pots...
at transplant I toss a handful of kelp meal into the hole and put my roots right on it...
thats about it...cant really think of no more...