Bokashi topdress questions. Insight on light stress

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Electric sky 300 v2 dimmed to 30 percent or so over 3 ft from canopy.
180 cfm fan drilled through top closet door w no intake hole rather passive air from bottom closet door.
3 Dina fem purple Afghan Kush from clone bout 8 weeks old
5-6 weeks in 1 gallon roots organic original & great white.
roots were weak coming into transplant.
I think I underwatered and pushed it with a fish hydrosolate at one point.
what are you gunna do
Plants went into 5 gallons unadulterated coast of Maine growers mix with great white watered in with ewc mol tea.
In between watering have consisted of small amounts of aloe powder
Pro tech
Coconut water
Superthrive
Small amount of molasses
Urb natural
Ca Mg Botanicare ( not consistently)
Ph range 6.3-6.7 haven’t checked run off for this container as they haven’t completely filled it out yet. Although I don’t suspect ph issues.
Plants have been holding water longer than what I would think is normal.

the leaf damage is fairly isolated to one branch with 1 of the other plants showing no signs and the last showing minimal nothing like the one bad photo

bokashi
I see guys pre mixing bokashi with ewc or compost to get Santa’s beard that looks beautiful and I’d really like to learn more about this and it’s benefits. I was considering a top dress next watering for my 5 gals 3 Tblspoom bokashi mixed Eith 3 tbsp lobster compost and 3 Tbsp ewc maybe a cup of fresh soil.

sorry for the long wind and all the questions,
Input on bokashi would be sick

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I use the bokashi as a final topdress/mulch layer and it works great.

Usually add the neem, kelp, gypsum and barley first and a good handful of worm castings then cover it over.

No problems yet and just bought another 10kg if it.

Happy days

GreenestBasterd said:

I use the bokashi as a final topdress/mulch layer and it works great.

Usually add the neem, kelp, gypsum and barley first and a good handful of worm castings then cover it over.

No problems yet and just bought another 10kg if it.

Happy days

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And looks like a slight Nitrogen toxicity IMO, but not enough to cause much concern. As your plants get more mature, they'll get over it. Just keep watering as normal.

The issue with these pre-blended mixes is sometimes things aren't 100% decomposed. It has hen manure, alfalfa meal, AND fish bone meals in it. While those are all great ingredients, if they aren't fully decomposed you can run into problems.

IMO, just keep doing exactly what you've been doing and don't change a thing. Come back to us in 2 weeks or so if the issue hasn't corrected itself, but IMO you'll be fine once the plants get a little bigger.


This soil mix, much like FFOF isn't mean to be used with plants as small as yours. In the future, grow clones/seedlings in a basic mix of peat, perlite, and compost/EWC and nothing else. Once the plant gets established more, then you can transplant it into these "supersoil" blends.

Again, give it another few weeks and you'll be totally fine. Looks great IMO.

I forgot to mention I run a mild coots mix rather than a pre bagged super soil type mix.

A lot more forgiving on younger less established plants too and you can play around with the top dress and teas.

I don’t do the bucket of scraps and kitchen waste fermentation process either just use the mix as is.

can someone explain the bokashi top dressing? i have two bokashi bins, but there full of old bones and food crap n fat. i know you can use the liquid from it, but ive never herd of useing the contents for gardening thanx go go

Pretty sure you’re supposed to burry the buckets fermented contents in a compost heap or beds and it speeds up decomposition.

I wouldn’t even try topdressing fermented stinky bucket mess can’t see it doing much good.

I just top dress the blended mix that supposed to be sprinkled over the bucket scraps.