re: Doc Bud - High Brix Q&A With Pictures
Hello Doc Bud, it´s a pleasure
First of all... Nice job, I really thank you for all you have done for the evolution of this wonderful plant. I hope I can help in furthering the knowledge you have been promoting. True high brix is the way to go... I´m sold.
I´m new to the forums, actually this is the first time I´ve ever created an account on a MJ forum (legal reasons). The reason I decided to join 420mag´s community is because of you, I might be my country´s first DocBud follower. I believe in organics, because of the quality and understanding you need to have of how vegetal and microbial life works (I´m a biologist myself, got into this because of MJ actually, she opened my eyes). I started studying the true living organics and I knew a thing or two about brix (I love wine <3). Anyway, in my quest for knowledge about microfauna in pot soil, I stumbled on to your journals, I read most of everyone of the completed ones after 3 weeks, I used my vacations wisely LoL. Thing is I´m from a tiny South American country in which legalization and cannabis are each day getting stronger... Still a long way to go though, but growing practices are kinda stuck in the past (prohibition style, as you have mentioned lots of times).
Mineralizing your soil here is hard, because the nutes, minerals and heck even good soil mixes are hard to come by as an individual small scale grower (Couldn´t find someone who sold me less than 90 lbs, it all goes to the agroindustry).
I ordered my SRP from ebay and it should be here anytime soon. I could also find agro gypsum and I´m working my way to get the limestone or at least something high on CaCO3.
Foliars are kinda hard also. PGR and Amaze aren´t shipped to my location. I've looked for other local industrial power foliars that promote beneficial root exudates.
I´m following microbeman's AACT instructions for my teas (I´m a person of hard facts).
What I want to know is what do you think about red sea bird Guano? I´ve read in your earlier journals that you evade sea bird guanos because of high K, but the one I use is actally low on N/K and high on P/Ca. Label goes as follows:
P 14%
Ca 18-22%
Mg 7-9%
Na 8-10%
K 3-5%
S 2-3%
N 0,5-1,5%
Organic content 10%
I think this values are good for a flowering fert I think, for a source of P/Ca in the soil mix for flowering also... I like to use lots of transplant (about 3), spikes and layers (TLO style).
I´ll go all out with questions. I´m not a bit shy...
What kind of foliars should I be looking for? What do you mix in the cationic drench? (I would like
I´ll be testing my soil after I give it a trial run on some bagseeds. It will be basically made up of peat moss (HP promix not available here), perlite, minerals (your 6/5/3 I hope I can get my hands on some court chalk for the CaCO3), pinch of diatomea sand(No azomite here either), some volcanic earth(added to diatomea sand for more trace minerals),Calcium nitrate, salmon hydrolisate (completely organic with no foul odors), EWC, local mycorhiz, microbeman´s tea for the cooking and weekly drenches.
I plan on feeding on flowering with teas, guanos and fish topping plus some of your cationic drenches later. And as I said im working my way through the foliars.
Well I hope my english doesn´t suck too much as it isn´t my first language and that you can help me through my High brix apprenticeship. Again thanks for all the knowledge you have feed me already in your completd journals. Love the scientific gardening style.
Geetz.
