Okay after getting a good look at the bag I am going to go get some for my next grow and see how best to use it. It is fairly redundant overkill with most of my stuff except the fungi. There is a great diversification there, much more then most cannabis products. If the price is right that may be worth it just for those spores. So I will have to figure out the right way to supplement that without burn cause I aint stopping the tea. I bet that stuff would be great instead of the tea for the beginning when I want to get the soil going but don't want to add tea yet.
My shopping list.
Worm Casting Humisoil (16qt) - 29.00 - Amazon.com : Humisoil Natural Humus (16qt) : Patio, Lawn & Garden
ful-power fulvic acid (1qt) - 17.13 - Amazon.com : BioAg Ful-Power Plant Nutrient, 1 quart : Gardening Tools And Accessories : Patio, Lawn & Garden
alfalfa by down to earth (5lb) - 9.99 - Amazon.com : Down To Earth Natural Alfalfa Meal 2.5-.5-2.5 Fertilizer - 25 pounds. : Patio, Lawn & Garden
crab meal by down to earth (5lb) - 6.25 - Down To Earth Crab Meal 4-3-
Indensian Bat Guano - 11.95 - Amazon.com : Sunleaves Indonesian Bat Guano, 2.2 Pound : Patio, Lawn & Garden
Alaska Pure Kelp Plant Food - 10.00
Aphrodites extraction (1qt) - 21.59
Hygrozyme - 28.95
If I should order exactly the same brands you listed does my above shopping list sound corre
Now lets talk about these a bit. These are your new friends.
Wrong...these are two different things. I know I was lazy and left out some of the stuff that to me is obvious. I should have made it a bit more newb friendly.
EWC is one thing. The link there goes to Humis soil. That is something else. That is the raw deal bad to the bone stuff. Precious earth. Full of tons of highly concentrated nutes and microbes.
EWC is something else. That you should get local. It is made everywhere. Any good nursery around should have some give a call. The EWC is full of primarily Nitrogen so is good for all stages of growth. it is the base of this tea . The bacteria from the worms is the stuff we are trying to breed that do all the magic! (the Humis soil has a bunch too...but that is our secret)
The Fulvic Acid is very expensive and not needed. It is just one of those supper secret additives that kicks it up a notch. It helps make things like Advanced Nutrients lines "special". It makes for increased uptake. It is highly refined humic acid and is actually used in people to help with all sorts of problems as well as plants. Supper Expensive to process it out correctly and most people cheat and make garbage and sell it as fulvic acid. This is the only brand I trust. Not needed. Some people dump it in with every top off. I would rather push the nutes instead as this stuff is spendy. You don't need it but will like it.
Alfalfa...Look it up...Know since forever as an all around awesome Micro nutrient source for all flowering plants. If it makes flowers it does better with alfalfa in the soil.
Crab meal - Not needed but supper fun and dangerous to play with. Used correctly (which varies by strain), Will cause the plants immune system to kick into overdrive. This has many great impacts since the plant is not actually infected with any disease. It just ends up making the plant think it is infected with insects and the plant builds huge fat flowers to insure offspring and lots of resin to make it in hospital. Many other great benefits. When Overdone it can cause all kinds of serious problems. I just handed you a loaded shotgun.
Bat Guano - That is your Phos. Use that in bloom...depends how you roll you may not need it in veg. Also side benefit... it is poop...it has some more bacteria. Actually need I say just about each of these components is multifaceted?
Atlantic Sea Kelp - Another one of those miracle things is a special type of Atlantic kelp that helps in both people and plants. Supper rich in tons of nutrients as it bathes in the ocean soaking it all up. Commonly called "Ascophyllum nodosum" (you see that on the sides of tons of bottles)
"Ascophyllum nodosum seaweed, Organic Kelp.... is an excellent source of micronutrients and beneficial plant growth promoters. Contains over 60 naturally-chelated minerals and essential elements that the fast-growing sea plant absorbs from the cold, nutrient-rich waters of the North Atlantic."
There are many ways to get it. That stuff at the depot is cheap and great... it stains...be careful.
Aphrodites extraction - that is a broken down molasses. You can use cheapo molasses but I can never get as good a brew doing it. I use both as it help to make it cheaper to cut the Aphrodites extraction with some molasses. But if I really want it to go and go now I need to give it the stuff that is already broken down. You don't need it but it is better. Also when Molasses is broken down you get great amino acids that help with uptake.
Hygrozyme - any good enzyme will do. That helps break down all the plant matter.
No seriously...breakfast oatmeal. I use steel cut becasue i have them but rolled would be better. I have even used those packets of the instant stuff but not with the flavors. just plain. Doesn't have to be quick oats its gonna sit for 2 days. Aids in a lot of ways. Some claim you get your beneficial fungi this way. Actually breaks down to a bunch of stuff but also is food for the mix.
So ass you go you are going to add the Silica Potash to help kill off the bad bacteria and bring up the good bacteria . Just use that silica blast it should work. Just about all Silica treatments are highly Alkaline and will bring it back to 7 when it starts to tank (we will talk about that later). That gets you your Potassium.
So there is all three majors and tons of minors with a but load of microbes... But wait there's more.
I have Azomite laying about as I use it in my soil. You wont have it but I can throw that in.
I also throw in some of my compost pile with is scientifically formulated to have everything and a pile of microbes. (including things like Calcium and Magnesium).
Yeah that about does it. That gets a plant through the grow just fine all made in a bucket for next to nuthin.
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