hey all in the relal organic soil teachers in here, first i want to thank you all the efforts in here and in the old thread back in icmag forum on bringing down the dollar myths on the cannabis scene now a days, and teaching us all on real botany, the merging of man and nature in the cannabis cultivation community.... im in the other side of the atlantic in Portugal, where mj is not as "free"as it is now in your homeland....in here we dont have any drug war going on ... the plant its not legal but its not a big issue either...so it maybe is more free from the business that only seeks profit over true service to the customers....
im a begginer in growing cannabis, im currently on my second run only, i have a small drawer thingy to grow ... my space is 80*60 cm (almost 3x2 feet) so i dont have a nice space to get large notill pot running on .... my plant's have been growing on bagged soil (biobizz allmix) with bottled nutes (also biobizz) through flowering, but i always hated this thing. i know its a corporative imposed style of cultivation and i'm going to work my soil in this summer to start a real organic living soil cultivar... it's the true way and it's beautiful... thanks to all again for teaching the ones that want to be open minded and free themselves... lettting nature get things done around here!
but as you might expect, here in my country there are only 3 or 4 hidro stores and the sourcing for certified organic products is hard...we r strugling with a financial crisis and investment in passing the word on organic farming is not what it should be but anyways, im want to the a free journey around the countryside the find my own ammendments and minerals and i have some questions that you might answer to the stoner noob here
(i read half of the five hundred pages of the old rols thread, that stuff was soul cleansing and a real comedy festival some times hehe , time well spent i say)
-i cant source kelp so im going to fetch some brown seaweeds from the beach... should i wash, dry and pulverize them before adding to soil and teas?
-my minerals are going to be just bentonite,basalt dust and gypsum- cant source the oyster shell stuff, and most of the stuff .... kind hard when amazon gives u the finger when you try to buy something from the us...
-for the ammendments im going to rely on:
-alfalfa hay for rabbits,crushed crab shells also from the beaches, biological neem powder, fish meal that is used for fishing bait, those minerals, those brown seaweeds i mencioned and bat guano (some questions on this last one though..)..
-blond peat moss from the baltic.. cant find any place that has spaghnum peat
-for aeration perlite... i know that it doesnt stay put but it's what i can get!
-can i use pro-silicate from grotek instead of dyna gro's product? agsil is out of my reach too heheh..
-we have lots of nettle,dandelion,mallow so botinacal teas are assured... aloe is a but pricey but im going to search deeper for cheap aloe products in here...
-for humus material im going to get 100% EWC from local vermicompost especialists 15 euros 11 pounds, and im starting a 5 gallon compost bin indoors hope it heats up well in this tiny container...
wow sorry for the long post but i hope u understand it... i've learned some much with you all, and i'll make an effort to change some opinions round here, where most of the guys that grow can't live without their bloombastic 0-93-103 just for the last day before the flush....
cheers from portugal , GP