Herbie's Beans - Black Widow And Super Skunk

I also added bokashi I like the fungal looks of growth on these peices ✌️

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Top dressed some Kmag in anticipation of flower sets soon Kmag is A unique 3-in-1 combination of potassium, magnesium, and sulfur. K-Mag is a naturally occurring source of these three vital plant nutrients. Potassium is essential for high quality fruit, Magnesium is required for the synthesis of chlorophyll and Sulfur is needed for enzyme activation.

K-Mag fuels quality and yield by supplying a unique and perfectly balanced package of three essential nutrients — K, Mg and S — in the highly available water-soluble sulfate form:

21-22% POTASH (K2O) (18.2% POTASSIUM: K) — Potassium (K) is known as the "quality" nutrient. A good source of K, K-Mag promotes healthy root systems, increases plant vigor and resistance to disease and cold. K is also essential in sugar and starch formation, and the movement of nutrients through plants.

10.5-10.8% MAGNESIUM (Mg) (18% MAGNESIA MgO) — Magnesium (Mg) is the central component of chlorophyll, the pigment molecule responsible for absorbing sunlight during photosynthesis. Providing Mg and K in the proper balance, K-Mag helps increase plant strength and builds resistance to winter kill, drying, insect attack and spray damage.

21-22% SULFUR (S) (67% SULFATE: SO4) — Sulfur (S) helps build proteins in plants and is a key component of many unique traits. S puts the "green and leafy" into crops like spinach, while giving garlic and asparagus their distinctive flavors and improves the baking quality of wheat. S deficiencies are of particular concern as sulfur dioxide emission- reduction programs cause less S to be returned to the soil via the atmosphere. K-Mag provides an adequate supply of S for healthy crop production. Because it's in the sulfate form, it aids initial root growth — important in rapidly growing crops — and promotes seed production and vigorous plant growth.

Five more reasons to use K-Mag

#1 Resists leaching
Unlike many other magnesium sources, K-Mag is 100 percent water soluble. The solubility rate depends on its soluble chemical nature and its particle size. Refined and ground into various screen sizes, K-Mag goes to work immediately upon application provided there is enough soil moisture to support crop growth. Yet, K-Mag Granular dissolves slowly, resisting rapid leaching from the soil.

#2 Essentially chloride-free

K-Mag's maximum chloride content is less than 2.5 percent, minimizing the potential for fertilizer "burn." Thus, it is widely used on sensitive vegetable and fruit crops requiring high fertilizer rates, and on other crops that have a high K and Mg demand and do not tolerate chloride well.

#3 Provides balance of nutrients

The deficiency of any essential nutrient limits crop yields and crop quality — even when all other nutrients are present in adequate amounts. K-Mag supplies K, Mg and S in a balanced proportion that fits the nutrient needs of many crops.

#4 Does not change soil pH

Regardless of application rate, K-Mag does not change soil pH because it is a neutral salt. Producers can apply with confidence.

#5 Increases profit per acre

Crop producers throughout the world have reported extra profit per acre with K-Mag, especially on Mg- and S-deficient soils. Exact dollar benefits from K-Mag applications depend on crop and cropping methods, soil type, degree of soil nutrient deficiencies, previous cropping methods, and climatic conditions during the cropping year.

K-Mag can be used as part of a complete fertilizer for the crop, or applied directly to the soil. Check with your K-Mag dealer as to the best rates and application methods for your area.
 
Silent Crisis
The collapse of the insect population worldwide threatens everything from wild birds to the food on our plates. That alarming bit of information should be a wake-up call. It is happening fast, but people still see enough insects around them that they don’t recognize there is a problem. There are some insects that many people would be happy to see go away, without realizing how catastrophic it would be if we continue at the rate that we’re going. We’ve had incredibly large declines in a relatively short period of time as history measures it, and the consequences will catch up with us.

Through speaking to scientists in the field of conservation biology, it became clear to Oliver that insect decline is a silent crisis. He said it was going on in the background but needed to be foregrounded, and that’s what he sought to do with his book.

We connect in an empathetic way with the animals that are most like us, Oliver says. That’s usually mammals with big eyes, expressive faces — cuddly things that we can relate to on some level. When a large mammal like a tiger goes extinct, we tend to notice it, and it makes us sad because they are big beautiful animals. But it doesn’t affect the larger world. It would be a hideous crime to lose tigers, though the food system would not collapse around us.

“That’s why you have huge conservation dollars going towards orangutans and rhinos, rather than insects,” he says.

We don’t notice insect decline, but the loss of insects, collectively, can be devastating to ecology worldwide. Our forests and grasslands would collapse quickly without insects.

Insects, according to one entomologist Oliver spoke to for his book, are like aliens on Earth. “They are incredible looking,” Oliver says. “They are kind of cryptic a lot of the time. They have extraordinary abilities that if you saw a larger creature like a cockroach running around beheaded for two weeks, crawling into small spaces, running vertically up walls, you would think you’re in some kind of superhero movie, wouldn’t you? So they have these kind of incredible abilities that we can’t really relate to. And obviously, some of them annoy us and some of them sting and bite us, and so we kind of had this deficit of empathy.”

Insect decline has an invisibility, both in terms of the impact and the cause, Oliver notes. So it’s that much easier to miss.

“We’re killing off insects in huge numbers without even really realizing it in places that we would consider to be fairly safe for them,” he says.
 

Who’s Counting?​

Oliver said that up until recently, no one was counting insects. Even scientists didn’t see the point in it because insects are everywhere. It is far more interesting to scientists to describe new species and look at behaviors and changes to habitats. Counting insects also seems like a monumental and tedious task, and was seen as rather pointless.

“Some of the studies that have come out in the last few years are really kind of instructive because they, for the first time, shine a light on what’s actually happening to insect populations,” Oliver says. “And some of those population drops are just astonishing.”

Oliver spoke to entomologist Brad Lister of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. Brad visited the El Yunque rainforest in Puerto Rico in the 1970s to investigate insect populations. It is the only rainforest in U.S. territory and quite pristine.

Brad put plates with sticky substances on the forest floor and in the canopy and returned the next morning to see how many insects were stuck there.

“In the ’70s, they were kind of matted. These plates were kind of black with the insects,” Oliver says. “He went back a couple of years ago to repeat this experiment just to see if things had changed, and the contrast was astonishing. He said he was absolutely blown away by the change. It was just a couple of insects on these sticky plates in the morning.”

Brad discovered an 80% decline in insects in the canopy and a 98% decline on the forest floor, by biomass. A similar study in Germany in nature reserves in the height of summer found an 82% insect decline between 1989 and 1997.

Some scientists believe we are entering a sixth great extinction, and Oliver says insect decline is happening quickly in terms of evolutionary time scales. Many people have experienced this in their own lifetimes. They can recall road trips with their families when they would have to pull over to clean all the bugs off the windshield, but today, splattered bugs are no longer an issue because there are fewer bugs out there.
 
The Top Four Contributors to the Insect Crisis
Climate change pushes insects into temperature bands that they have never been in before, altering their livable zone.
Habitat loss, including both forest loss and the loss of wildflower-rich grasslands, devastates insect populations. Insect habitat has been largely destroyed for agricultural, residential and transportation uses.
Pesticide use has poisoned the places where insects remained after their habitat was decimated. Pesticides, specifically neonicotinoids, are the chief contributor to monarch decline in the Midwest, a study released recently found. Pesticide use is something that is not out of our control. A few policy changes in the United States could have a huge impact, Oliver says.
Light pollution, which is caused by human’s use of artificial light, has broken the hardwired evolutionary link between insects and night and day. When to emerge, feed, mate and migrate has all been confused by light pollution.
 
What Gardeners Can Do to Reverse the Insect Crisis
Insects can bounce back if we give them a break, Oliver says. One scientist told him the insect population is like a log in water with your foot on it; when you take your foot off, the log will float back up again quickly.

There are some common sense things that can be done, he says, like voting for people who are promising to act on pesticides, habitat loss and climate change.

If you happen to have a backyard, you can combat the insect crisis by planting native plants — the plants that insects are accustomed to. “Don’t be so zealous on cutting your lawn because insects like longer grass, and it looks nicer,” Oliver adds.

He also advises being aware of where your food comes from and valuing insects around children rather than demonizing them.
 
So heres the recipe and the tub and of course the pitchfork.
I add to the store bought soil cup Bokashi 2Tbs KIS mix,1Tbs Fish Meal QUICK nitro,1Tbs feather meal long term nitrogen, 1Tbs bone meal short term phosphorus,1Tbs,rock phosphate long term phosphorus potassium sulfate ,gypsum mixed in 1cf bag of soil with 4 gallons of compost with biochar added to bag of soil
( 1cf bag compost i use dairy doo/ mixed with 1/4 bag char) i do this 2 weeks in advance of use in soil. After its mixed i check ph , its usually close.

The recipe is inexpensive but effective and i can get quite a few rounds out of the nutrients with good yields, if and when I use pro mix hp I double the recipe for 1 cf worth of promix of course i use Bigfoot myco @ transplant watered with a fermented EM-1 and soaked alfalfa!✌️
Sour diesel ,Lsd,Jack Herar mother's

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The jug is molasses for microbe (bacteria) food. If i want a good fungal growth I take some compost,dampen it down in a bucket and top dress on the compost in moderation of Baby oatmeal and dampen that and cover on a heat mat or not give it 3/4 days keeping damp keeping it about 78/80 f you'll have some GOOD hyphe growing,wait to use until ot mostly covers the compost its a good addition to the mix✌️
 
Come to say high and get grow tips! Sweet! Thanks SOG!
 
To make good fermented EM use 1/3 cup molasses (microbe food)1/3 cup EM-or rice water (lactobacillus) to 1 gal water and 1 cup dry weight alfalfa meal in a paint strainer bag and tie off the bag put in a anaerobic environment from 76/80 f let sit unopened until ph reaches 4.0/3.0 and it smells sweet strain and drain and you are ready to go GREAT for root health 💪!
 
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