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That top dress should hold you over through flower. They are trying to sell more product. It will take about 2 or 3 months for all of the kelp meal to reduce to carbon depending on how often you use enzymes or beneficials.
Alfalfa meal is great but be careful. It's hot stuff. It has growth regulator hormones. People tend to think the plant can actually utilize this hormone which isn't true however hormones are amino acids which microbes love! Enzymes!
It's is overwhelming, I just but the bullet and picked a line and ran with it. I'm using the CANNA line pretty much following the feed schedule with minor adjustments.
I started using homemade spikes for "timed" feeds. Get the spike material in the soil before the roots grow out. I punch a small 1/4" to 1/2" hole in the soil near the edge of the pot and drop in either a high N spike.
Here's a super soil water only recipe:
1 part spagnum peat moss
1 part EWC
1 part aeration amendment (perlite, rice hulls, pumice)
Mix this up and add the following per cubic foot.
1 cup dolomitic lime
1 cup kelp meal
1 cup espoma veggie tone
1/2 cup neem/karanja cake
Let that cook for a couple of weeks. This is the time when microbes begin to populate and go into a feeding frenzy. The soil literally gets hot as hell.
Try starting a tomatoe plant to see if your soil has stabilized if you'd like.
The rev book?I started using homemade spikes for "timed" feeds. Get the spike material in the soil before the roots grow out. I punch a small 1/4" to 1/2" hole in the soil near the edge of the pot and drop in either a high N spike.
1 part Kelp Meal
1 part Bone Meal
1 part High N guano
1 part Feather Meal
1 part Blood Meal
Or a high P spike
1 part Feather meal
1 part High P guano
1 part Kelp/Alfalfa 50/50
1 part Bone Meal
I like the top dress approach as well. I get the spikes in either at planting or at transplant. It's not much material and it gets to cook for a bit before the roots get there. This came right out the The Rev's book not my recipe.
The rev book?
Wow! Evrrything in one place!! I couldnt sleep last night!! Thanks fellow farmer!"True Living Organics" I've adjusted many of the recipes to suit my own needs but the book gave me an easy reference guide.
I'm glad to see you followed up on your original post. I've run a few grows in a soil I built a year ago. Nutrient deficiencies set in after the first grow went ok. I attempted to amend between grows, but soil couldn't keep it together the entire grow. Since then, I've recycled the soil and used heavier amounts of amendments with some success.Here is a photo of the same plants that I posted before, but 6 weeks in to flower (from summer 2017). They looked ok here, but got way worse (yellow, leaves dropping) towards harvest. I think i actually deleted my photos of it they were so bad!
I just get the feeling that my plants want a little more Nitrogen. I know this goes against common practice of reducing N in flower, but they look light green. I am guessing that vigorously feeding vegetative plants in FFOF will maybe suck a lot of the available N out? Just a guess.
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