Doc all i can say is wow n why? The girls are beautiful but why must you set the bar so high lol. I really love i have ran across you and being able to communicate with you. Now i have shut down until i can afford to grow like you. I want to be like you when i grow up...lol...feeling like a lil kid eventhough im still quite young. So you say you would use the supersoil as a fertilizer really? And what would you recommend if i went with the hydrolysate fish in my teas for fert will i need anything else and i Will be using the natures own microbe brew? I also would like to stick to foliaring with teas so what would you recommend? Tea recipes.any other additives? Sorru bout asking for so much?
Thanks for the kind words!
Hmmm.....what do I recommend. Seriously, at this point I'm in flux about medium and ferts. Mineralizing the soil is the key. Keeping the soil energy up can be done in many ways and certainly the fish hydrolysate is a great way to do that. There are other ways too. At this stage of the game it's all about experimentation.
Here's what I'm noticing about my garden right now:
The smaller pots are giving me trouble! My Blue Dreams are in smaller, 3 gallon pots. I did that because I wanted to control the size of the plants, but they still got freakishly large. There were a lovely shade of green the day before easter, but now they're looking pretty punky, showing signs of starvation! The used up all the energy in the soil and the small pots can't really store enough energy the way I was feeding the soil, so I've had to modify that. The plants in the larger containers are still green and happy.
So, the takeaway is use large pots!
I'm fixing the Blue Dreams (I hope) by adding some good old fashioned salt-based ferts a time or two and re-dressing with rock powders. There's a picture of that a few posts up. Normally, I'd just cull the sick plants and move on, but I'm really wanting to learn a few things, so I'm experimenting.
If I were you, I'd do the following:
1.)mineralize soil
2.)Add humus to the soil (alaskan forest humus or equivalent)
3.)Use large pots
4.)water with natures' own, and an organic fert of some sort, fish hydrolysate would be just fine. I do not recommend brewing the tea with the fish ferts in it.....I did that once and there was no foam. Add it at after it's brewed.
Foliar feed with the fish....but stop when the buds start to get going. Re-dress with rock powders and micro's at the first sign of imperfection in the leaves.
The heavy duty foliars I'm using are friggin powerful, and I'm still learning how to use them, IE when to use bloomit vs Amaze, how much PGR, etc. I'm workin' on it.
It's rare that I'm at a loss for words but all I can say is AMAZING!!!!
I've already planted my veggie garden and juts put 6 seeds in for my "indoor" garden but I'm going to start assembling the stuff I need and start adding them all asap to what I have growing. I think I'm going to focus on mineralizing the soil and adding the teas for now and see how that goes....not perfect but should be an improvement????
Thanks so much for posting and being on the leading edge
MIneralizing the soil is a HUGE improvement. Use a large pot, make sure to have all the micro's in there by using something like Azomite or a Montromorillianite diatomaceous earth, brew microbial teas and feed the soil with some sort of organic fert once in a while and you'll be very happy.
Make sure you use an organic fert that must be broken down by the microbes: Biosol Forte, Fish Hydolysate, Alfalfa Meal, Cottonseed Meal....something like that. Perhaps add the alfalfa to the soil and let it cook with the rock powders for a month and feed with the fish? That would work.
The microbes ate up all the food in the 3 gallon pots! I used straight Black Gold potting soil, unammended, right out of the bag and they ran out of food! So, larger pots with a bit more energy is best.
Here's a thought:
These soil tests I run are assumed to be outdoor farming, not indoor container gardening. I'm thinking for small containers, the soil needs a bit more energy than it does outside, because the roots can only travel to far in search of food. Again, the large pots rock, the small ones lag.
All I gotta say about those buds is SsssswwweeeeeeeTTT!!!! ....I think I caught a buzz just looking at those photos!!!