smokey the cat
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We don't get the Nuetrog stuff in the NZ Bunnings from what I can see. A shame as the I've wanted to have a play with their Go-Go juice for ages. That shit looks hilariously awesome.
I've struggled with crashing in flower too - Nitrosol and Seasol only get ya so far. When I switched to LED the more intense light exposed massive deficiencies. I think most of my problem tho has been using a shitty potting mix base which hasn't had nearly enough humus or variety for a properly healthy soil food web.
My thinking is that only using an organic fertiliser like Nitrosol with an inferior soil isn't enough to grow well. It adds blood&bone which will feed the microbes - but the soil web will quickly crash as they have little else to eat, and there's no diversity supported. This sets up a grow which is highly likely to result in plant deficiency. I'd finish a Nitrosol&potting-mix grow and the spent soil was almost grit and there would be fuck-all humus present.
Nitrosol only interacts with soil microbes. - your plant doesn't use it directly. So Nitrosol can only be an effective fertiliser if the growing system supports happy and abundant microbial life. In an outdoor grow at least there'll decomposing plants and humus and worms and other biological inputs - indoors with simple shite potting mix Nitrosol is definitely a sub-optimal choice. Better to switch to a chem fert and bypass the microbes in that case IMHO, that way at least the plant will get to eat.
I have a primo vermi-compost bin running but I've never used it indoors over fears of introducing little greeblies into the grow space. This run I said "fuck it" and am switching out half my potting mix for beautiful light fluffy compost and also using Yates Dynamic Lifter which is composted chicken manure, seaweed and blood&bone formed into a sheep-pellet shape.
Still dosing the plants with Nitrosol and Seasol - but the idea now is that there's the diverse quality inputs in the compost and Dynamic Lifter to ensure that there's more for the microbes to do than just eat Nitrosol.
Edit/ dynamic lifter stinks - this is why I was unwilling to use use it indoors in the past. Keep it under the top layer of soil and whack some molasses on there to get the fungi and bacteria started. Smell fades once the herd gets to work on the pellet.
I've struggled with crashing in flower too - Nitrosol and Seasol only get ya so far. When I switched to LED the more intense light exposed massive deficiencies. I think most of my problem tho has been using a shitty potting mix base which hasn't had nearly enough humus or variety for a properly healthy soil food web.
My thinking is that only using an organic fertiliser like Nitrosol with an inferior soil isn't enough to grow well. It adds blood&bone which will feed the microbes - but the soil web will quickly crash as they have little else to eat, and there's no diversity supported. This sets up a grow which is highly likely to result in plant deficiency. I'd finish a Nitrosol&potting-mix grow and the spent soil was almost grit and there would be fuck-all humus present.
Nitrosol only interacts with soil microbes. - your plant doesn't use it directly. So Nitrosol can only be an effective fertiliser if the growing system supports happy and abundant microbial life. In an outdoor grow at least there'll decomposing plants and humus and worms and other biological inputs - indoors with simple shite potting mix Nitrosol is definitely a sub-optimal choice. Better to switch to a chem fert and bypass the microbes in that case IMHO, that way at least the plant will get to eat.
I have a primo vermi-compost bin running but I've never used it indoors over fears of introducing little greeblies into the grow space. This run I said "fuck it" and am switching out half my potting mix for beautiful light fluffy compost and also using Yates Dynamic Lifter which is composted chicken manure, seaweed and blood&bone formed into a sheep-pellet shape.
Still dosing the plants with Nitrosol and Seasol - but the idea now is that there's the diverse quality inputs in the compost and Dynamic Lifter to ensure that there's more for the microbes to do than just eat Nitrosol.
Edit/ dynamic lifter stinks - this is why I was unwilling to use use it indoors in the past. Keep it under the top layer of soil and whack some molasses on there to get the fungi and bacteria started. Smell fades once the herd gets to work on the pellet.
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