mumps
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thanks for the answer : )
do you think 5 gallons where too much and 3 would have done just the same?
another question about those rocks (jesus christ marie, they are called minerals : D) you are using.
is there any clay dust or just "hard structure" minerals?
as long as i know clay mineral keeps water inside them and i don't know if that would be good for our plants, with something like caolinite or halloysite (simplier kind of clays, just one layer and a lot of a absorption power and just a really small adsorpition, much different from the two or three layers clays which also have a lot of adsorption and antioxidant ability) the soil basically would never go dry and i'm pretty sure that with just a 10% of this simple clay in soil you would need ages before the soil drys properly and apparently thats bad for weed.
those clays would probably be good for outdoor growing preventing the plant to go completely dry.
and i would like to add that with tectosilicates you need half of the nutes to have the same result.
as you probably know copper is good for vines and olives and is one of the few additives you can give plants in an organic grow. if you add just a 5% zeolite (a tectosilicate) to the copper solution it's been studied that you need just half quantity of copper to have the same results (and of course better because even if copper isnt that bad for soil in the long run it will intoxicate it)
i also must add that our wine and olive oil are one of the best in the world (not sure about wine but pretty sure about alive oil)
so maybe using those kind of rocks in addition with a lot of nutes could have burn the plants because they already had all the nutes available inside the structure of the mineral (kind of controlled release) and all the nutes you gave them where way too much for the plant.
sorry if you already went through this but my english skill aren't that good and i could have missed it.
do you think 5 gallons where too much and 3 would have done just the same?
another question about those rocks (jesus christ marie, they are called minerals : D) you are using.
is there any clay dust or just "hard structure" minerals?
as long as i know clay mineral keeps water inside them and i don't know if that would be good for our plants, with something like caolinite or halloysite (simplier kind of clays, just one layer and a lot of a absorption power and just a really small adsorpition, much different from the two or three layers clays which also have a lot of adsorption and antioxidant ability) the soil basically would never go dry and i'm pretty sure that with just a 10% of this simple clay in soil you would need ages before the soil drys properly and apparently thats bad for weed.
those clays would probably be good for outdoor growing preventing the plant to go completely dry.
and i would like to add that with tectosilicates you need half of the nutes to have the same result.
as you probably know copper is good for vines and olives and is one of the few additives you can give plants in an organic grow. if you add just a 5% zeolite (a tectosilicate) to the copper solution it's been studied that you need just half quantity of copper to have the same results (and of course better because even if copper isnt that bad for soil in the long run it will intoxicate it)
i also must add that our wine and olive oil are one of the best in the world (not sure about wine but pretty sure about alive oil)
so maybe using those kind of rocks in addition with a lot of nutes could have burn the plants because they already had all the nutes available inside the structure of the mineral (kind of controlled release) and all the nutes you gave them where way too much for the plant.
sorry if you already went through this but my english skill aren't that good and i could have missed it.
Just trimming all that crap will be about as bad as any post-harvest trim I've had to do. 
