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SIP Fertigation
Now that the SIP's are able to drain the water I give them on a daily basis, I'm feeling more emboldened to try some of the organic ferts in the reservoir. Up until now it has just been water, either tap or rain. The plants all look good with no obvious deficiencies showing so this seems like a good time to try it.
The veg plants got a combination of Horsetail Fern JLF at 1:30 and WCA (Water Soluble Calcium) at 1:750, and the flowering plants got WCA and my Dandelion Flower FPJ from last year, both at 1:750.
The WCA and Dandelion FPJ's are both KNF products and those are recommended to be used at 1:1000 so I'm a little heavy there, and the HTF JLF is a Jadam water ferment and those are recommended to be used at 1:30 so I'm full throttle on that one.
The HTF JLF had some larger particles in it that I probably should have filtered out since they will now sit in the reservoir as an organic product. Next time I will.
And, now that my comfrey plant has re-emerged, I can be a bit more free in using up what I had in inventory from last year as I know I'll be able to replace it. Comfrey's very high in NPK and pretty low in most everything else, and the HTF is high in most everything else so they compliment each other well. S. Nettle is actually the best complement to comfrey, but my patch is just getting established so I don't have much to work with there.
I will say that, so far at least, the combination of my base mix and the crumbles are growing some pretty healthy and happy plants. I'm about six weeks in though so I'll need to be on the lookout for any building deficiencies.
Now that the SIP's are able to drain the water I give them on a daily basis, I'm feeling more emboldened to try some of the organic ferts in the reservoir. Up until now it has just been water, either tap or rain. The plants all look good with no obvious deficiencies showing so this seems like a good time to try it.
The veg plants got a combination of Horsetail Fern JLF at 1:30 and WCA (Water Soluble Calcium) at 1:750, and the flowering plants got WCA and my Dandelion Flower FPJ from last year, both at 1:750.
The WCA and Dandelion FPJ's are both KNF products and those are recommended to be used at 1:1000 so I'm a little heavy there, and the HTF JLF is a Jadam water ferment and those are recommended to be used at 1:30 so I'm full throttle on that one.
The HTF JLF had some larger particles in it that I probably should have filtered out since they will now sit in the reservoir as an organic product. Next time I will.
And, now that my comfrey plant has re-emerged, I can be a bit more free in using up what I had in inventory from last year as I know I'll be able to replace it. Comfrey's very high in NPK and pretty low in most everything else, and the HTF is high in most everything else so they compliment each other well. S. Nettle is actually the best complement to comfrey, but my patch is just getting established so I don't have much to work with there.
I will say that, so far at least, the combination of my base mix and the crumbles are growing some pretty healthy and happy plants. I'm about six weeks in though so I'll need to be on the lookout for any building deficiencies.