RedCarpetMatches
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I love top dressing!!! Why put the good stuff on the bottom?! I'm doing good with coco and VC/amendments on top. I keep it moist so microbes can do work. Just put some leaves on top to retain moisture.
Trying to figure out how much, my strains I'm running now, they need. I've been doing less then more to be safe, and they desperately needed fed, so I feed them today with a flowering nute recipe.
I know each plant/strain is different.
How often do you organic guys normal feed nute teas? For a general rule of thumb. I'm thinking at least once every two weeks if not more.
haaaa that's a first![]()
I only do nute teas during veg. once every 2 weeks or so. I just topdress enough at the beginning of flower to last all the way through. I do compost teas and seed sprout teas and the occasional botanical tea. I topdress vc every few weeks too
May, the next time you head to that super-cool state directly north of you, let me know. I'm working with a strain that I suspect could offer a great deal of help with your ailments.....
Noooo! Stay with me MayAs soon as we can go legit, we'll have a great head start on the "synthetic" rest! Plus the Buckeyes are much better than...I forget their team name they suck so bad. Just watch Hardcore Pawn Shop before making a decision.
Ahh Red, don't get me wrong here. I'm not looking for a roomey here or anything. You two love birds can keep kickin it. Just figured if he's ever up this way for a visit I might be able to hook him up.![]()
VC = Vermicompost. My fave.
Personally I like enzyme teas and a gourmet VC. I don't ACT, even though I'm a gadget guy. But I applaud those that use ACT.
I have to take care of my planet. It is where I keep all my stuff.
Stow, I was actually thinking of heading up to lansing either this weekend or next. I plan to go to htg supply and pick up a new big ass hood, a Parabolic refelector, worm castings and a few other small stuff. That would be awesome, I could bring you a few things also, I have lavender x blueberry seeds id like to somehow give you guys to try out, also stow if you from the mid to southern part id highly recommend you check out the boys at cultivation innovstions, very good hydro shop, they know their stuff and are great guys, I always sit and chat w them for a hour before I head home.
Well I like them and I'll just put up with you lesser people.Off to transplant.
Regarding ACT's:
I don't use them often. I really like inoculating my soil with an ACT while it's "cooking". I figure with all of the dry organic amendments that have been added to the soil, it can't hurt to send in the cavalry to get to work on breaking that stuff down. I've been adding one during veg, and another one during early flower as well.
I think there are a couple more solid reasons to use an ACT. I would say if you're short on castings, it's a good way to stretch them out and make the best use of what otherwise would be an insufficient amount of vermicompost. Another thing that I've seen MM bring up a couple times too is that ACT's are a nutrient boost of sorts if you think about it. A plant derives it's nutrients through the death and deification of soil microbes. Here is a quote from MM regarding the uses of an ACT.....
"1/ to provide a quick nutrient kick to the rhizosphere. This works mainly because as the flagellates (protozoa) consume the *bacteria/archaea they utilize only 10 to 40% of the energy intake for their sustenance and the remaining 60 to 90% is expelled as ionic form nutrient which is directly bio-available to the roots of the plants. This is known as the microbial nutrient loop (cycle)."