Potassium

Hey guys my girl just started flowering, and she is lookin good, but I want to get ready for next year as this year was my first grow and a learning experience. I have a pile of soil ive been building up with native soil, crushed egg shells, dolomite lime, alfalfa meal, sand, and crap loads of used coffee beans. Ill keep adding the coffee beans and egg shells, but I was looking for something with a higher potassium rating, I used the coffee beans and alfalfa for some nitrogen along with grass clippings, ill add bat guano for phosphorus. I was looking on the internet and found that banana peels have a NPK of 0-3-42. So I went out and bought a couple of bunches of bananas. Now whenever I eat one, I take the peel cut it up into a million pieces, put it on a plate in the sun and let it cook untill its dried enough to crush into a powder. Then ill add the powder into the soil mix.

avocado peels!!!! wood ash!!!!

Thank you!

mushroom head said:

Thank you!

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no prob..if I can think of more i'll let you know!!!..ps please tell me you mean used coffee grounds, and you're not putting whole coffee beans in your mix.

Haha yes coffee grounds sorry. Think it would be a good idea to get ahold of some kelp meal? The very last thing im going to be adding to this mixture is a couple more gallons of my native soil and perlite, then rake it and make it even, and transplant my girl into it! I really wish I could find worm castings here. You cant really find anything here, I had to order the right kind of molasses, bat guano, and a couple other things, ill have to order the kelp meal if I decide to get it.

hardwood ash... preferably white oak.
burn the wood with a hot fire, the hotter the better, and after the ash has cooled, sift it.
the sifted ash is called potash. very good stuff.

dont do this with pine... its not hardwood, and its what almost everyone does the first time they hear about wood ash.