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Kelp meal is in the soil and the teas
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Skybound
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Ask Weaselcracker, he recently locally collected beach kelp, though his might have went into a compost heap, IDK.
Emilya Green
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Seaweed appears to be great stuff and I would ferment it just as do dandelions here in the midwest, to make a superfood fertilizer for our plants. It is also very good for us to eat because like most land vegetables, seaweed contains vitamins A (beta carotene) and C. It is also rich in potassium, iron, calcium, iodine and magnesium, which are minerals concentrated in seawater. Seaweed is also one of the few vegetable sources of vitamin B-12. Ferment this down to the raw elements using molasses as the sugar, or add some lactobacillus to it, and it should make a very good flowering nute.
Liquid kelp from seaweed
If you live by the beach, many permaculturists and old-school organic gardeners recommend making your own liquid kelp fertilizer out of fresh sea kelp.
Photo credit: Christopher Craig on Flickr via Creative Commons license
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Genevieve Schmidt is a landscape designer and owns a fine landscape maintenance company in Arcata, CA. The owner of North Coast Gardening, she is also a contributing writer at Garden Design Magazine and has written for numerous print and online publications.
If you live by the beach, many permaculturists and old-school organic gardeners recommend making your own liquid kelp fertilizer out of fresh sea kelp.
- Add two big handfuls of thoroughly rinsed, chopped sea kelp to a 5 gallon bucket of water and stir a few times a day for three days.
- At the end of the three days, strain and dilute the liquid at a rate of two parts water to one part kelp water.
- The diluted mixture can be applied via a spray bottle, or used to water new seedlings or other plants that may need a boost.
Photo credit: Christopher Craig on Flickr via Creative Commons license
Filed Under: Green Living, Organic GardeningTagged With: Fertilizer, How-To, Organic Gardening, Soil and Compost
Genevieve Schmidt is a landscape designer and owns a fine landscape maintenance company in Arcata, CA. The owner of North Coast Gardening, she is also a contributing writer at Garden Design Magazine and has written for numerous print and online publications.
Yeah she's got some pop. It tested at 21.5%. And that smell!
Leaves, cardboard, food scraps, grass clippings.
Thats generally a rule unless you run thermophilic composting. When you run thermophilic compost, it produces sufficient heat to kill any pathogens as well as cook any ungerminated seeds. When you run thermophilic compost, your only real concern is pests.....but again, you layer it and get it cooking and there won't be much of anything for pests to eat and its too hot (160 degrees isn't uncommon when layered properly and with sufficient water and air).
There is an urban farmer in Milwaukee that runs fully functioning greenhouses in the winter time fully heated by compost piles. Think about that...no electricity or wood to heat a greenhouse in Wisconsin in the winter time. I think his name is Will Allen.
Put it in your compost pile!
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Another thing "LOS" is to cover the soil with mulch. I used bark from my wood pile. First I put it in an tin foil pan covered into the bbq grill at about 250 degrees for a couple of hours. Actually I forgot about it and ran a gas tank dry over night 
. All the dropped leaves go on top as well. Note: The Rev says he wouldn't do this if he were not growing LOS as there would be problems. This action helps multiply the micro herd.
Here's the sticky trap that's been in there for a couple of weeks. I inoculated the soils about a month ago so it's working. Almost no flies. I'm sure some are laying maggots but they're dying before they mature. NIce!
Temps and rh have been pretty kind to me lately. I'm running the dehumidifier and the temp is natural. @InTheShed I cashed in on the hygrometer deal you told us about a while ago. Thanks!
I chuckle when I close the tent. I see a picture of a Japanese subway car getting jammed with commuters by people hired to push them all in, in my mind.
. All the dropped leaves go on top as well. Note: The Rev says he wouldn't do this if he were not growing LOS as there would be problems. This action helps multiply the micro herd.- Thread starter
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I smoked some Kosher Kush from a dispensary over the last two days. A gift from a friend. 20.9% thc. It was pleasant enough but it wasn't anywhere near having the depth in flavor and especially power of the buzz. There's was tested , yours was too. They came in .6% to each other and there's no contest that the Stank bud ruled over the store bud in every way, and in a big way.
Damn SO those girls are falling out the tent there! 
Sooo many flowers!
Sooo many flowers!
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My mind is a fun place some days
LOL! Great image.
Yeah not all cannabis is equal, thats for sure. I have tried some stuff that was listed at 25% from dispensaries out west that didn't feel like they should have hit 10%.
Its funny.....I kind of equate the potency of buzz/high with energy, even indicas. The cannabis has an energy to it. Sativas are more electrical type of energy, and the indicas are a fog like energy. They are drastically different in my eyes, but energy none the less. I have seen quite a bit of 20% cannabis that just didn't have any energy to it. You smoke it and you are like "Hello, is this working??" Then conversely I have run across some 'lower' potency stuff that just roasts me. I am left feeling like a tornado just tore through me. Lots of energy in some of those less potent strains. Certainly something to be said for an entourage effect!
From what SweetSue has been saying, it's the terpene content along with the THC content that will determine how high you get.
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The entourage effect! That's an answer. I know I might be repeating myself but I too have grown and smoked some blue dream cbd. That's 8/8 thc/cbd I believe. It blew me away compared to many others. I can relate to you're energy likening.
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I believe she could be right The entourage effect would include terps. in my book.
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I can't wait to see the "natural order" of these girls. I trimmed branches up to a point now I really can't see to do it. The sativa grower has branched to within a foot of every wall with at least one branch I can see and intertwined in all the others space. It's an interesting study. We'll see if the crowding bites me in the ass or not. Overall it's looking good. Individually we're going to see when I take them out for pics on chop day. It's a 55 day maturity in the book so another 3 to 4 weeks I'm guessing.Damn SO those girls are falling out the tent there!