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That's funny. I am thinking 2 more nutrient teas and I am riding it out. I posted somewhere that I am really liking all purpose teas through the whole run.
 
I seen that earlier, about the teas. So you're not gonna discern between flower or veg teas? I always thought they were more just general purpose to get your soil awake, if you will. You can definitely add specific nutrients, but the bacteria, fungi and such still have to break IT down too, right?

No matter how you like doing your teas, it's hard to argue with the results that you're achieving Gandalf.

Take er easy folks. Peace, Light, and Love.
 
GandalfdaGreen said:
That's funny. I am thinking 2 more nutrient teas and I am riding it out. I posted somewhere that I am really liking all purpose teas through the whole run.
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Rrog has mentioned something about this before, and I tend to believe him. The theory is that the plant decides what it needs, when it needs it in symbiosis with the microbes. I suppose if your soil has a good diversity of amendments already in it, with a proper CEC and something like bio-char then all will be well.

I'm looking more and more at nutrient teas as a fail-safe of sorts in case my soil is lacking a bit. If the soil is dialed in, then the teas are kind of redundant. I'm going to run some controlled experiments in the coming months to test this out. I will have buckets that will be void of certain things, and one of them will be sans nutrient teas.
 
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st0wandgrow said:
Rrog has mentioned something about this before, and I tend to believe him. The theory is that the plant decides what it needs, when it needs it in symbiosis with the microbes. I suppose if your soil has a good diversity of amendments already in it, with a proper CEC and something like bio-char then all will be well.

I'm looking more and more at nutrient teas as a fail-safe of sorts in case my soil is lacking a bit. If the soil is dialed in, then the teas are kind of redundant. I'm going to run some controlled experiments in the coming months to test this out. I will have buckets that will be void of certain things, and one of them will be sans nutrient teas.
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I am really trying to watch the plants closely as far as what signs they are showing. I really only notice the purple stems on a few here and there. I am growing in small containers right now too since I was on pheno hunts and running testers. I swear by the all purpose approach. If you avoid the "force" which draws us to overdo things you will be fine. We just spoke about that "force". I know you top dress with an organic fert powder, right? I can control the application better through a tea.
 
mycomaster said:
I seen that earlier, about the teas. So you're not gonna discern between flower or veg teas? I always thought they were more just general purpose to get your soil awake, if you will. You can definitely add specific nutrients, but the bacteria, fungi and such still have to break IT down too, right?

No matter how you like doing your teas, it's hard to argue with the results that you're achieving Gandalf.

Take er easy folks. Peace, Light, and Love.
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I have a tendency to let my containers dry out in a wet dry cycle. I am getting much better with attempting to keep a certain level of moisture but I am concerned with overwatering from a standpoint where things favor the proliferation of anaerobes. Someday I will try the Blumats for sure but right now that is not in the cards. I have brought this up before and I am concerned that I lose a certain percentage of my microlife population with my wet dry cycles.
 
GandalfdaGreen said:
I am really trying to watch the plants closely as far as what signs they are showing. I really only notice the purple stems on a few here and there. I am growing in small containers right now too since I was on pheno hunts and running testers. I swear by the all purpose approach. If you avoid the "force" which draws us to overdo things you will be fine. We just spoke about that "force". I know you top dress with an organic fert powder, right? I can control the application better through a tea.
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I do. It's me playing it safe thinking I might be lacking in my soil. I'm just now starting my third run on a batch of soil, and I'll be interested to see how the plants respond. I'm going to venture from my feeding schedule a bit and only apply a tea or a top dress if I see deficiencies. So many of the LOS guys preach about vermicompost. I think that's where it's at. They put amendments in their bin like kelp meal, alfalfa, rock dusts, etc. I'm pretty confident in saying if you have a really solid source of home made compost you are good to go for the most part. Like I said though, I will be testing this out on an upcoming batch....
 
Gand, you growing in small containers right now may necessitate a more frequent tea application. The more medium that the plant has to work with, should mean more nutrients stored and available to the plant as it grows. Smaller buckets get depleted quicker, and a tea is a good shot in the arm to make up for it.

At least that's the way I understand it.
 
st0wandgrow said:
I do. It's me playing it safe thinking I might be lacking in my soil. I'm just now starting my third run on a batch of soil, and I'll be interested to see how the plants respond. I'm going to venture from my feeding schedule a bit and only apply a tea or a top dress if I see deficiencies. So many of the LOS guys preach about vermicompost. I think that's where it's at. They put amendments in their bin like kelp meal, alfalfa, rock dusts, etc. I'm pretty confident in saying if you have a really solid source of home made compost you are good to go for the most part. Like I said though, I will be testing this out on an upcoming batch....
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I am going to start the comfrey and ewc mulch as a toplayer. That will cut my needs for N and Ca/Mg in any teas.
 
Speaking of worm bins, I'm off to cut the lawn .... right after I go pick the dandelions in my yard to make a worm-puree out of.

I'm sure my neighbors think I'm a moron out picking dandelions. :-)
 
st0wandgrow said:
Speaking of worm bins, I'm off to cut the lawn .... right after I go pick the dandelions in my yard to make a worm-puree out of.

I'm sure my neighbors think I'm a moron out picking dandelions. :-)
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I was just picking them off every ones front lawn. People are staring at me. They must think I'm out there too. Making a ghetto bouqet lol
 
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