LaquerHead
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More simple to you! Still seems like a crazy horticultural game of scavenger hunt to me.
the treasure is worth it! It was kinda a headache though at the beginning, not gonna lie!
The Girl Who Drank The Moon
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the treasure is worth it! It was kinda a headache though at the beginning, not gonna lie!
Probably be easier to find if I lived in a farming town!
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More simple to you! Still seems like a crazy horticultural game of scavenger hunt to me
A lot of the ingredients in my case are covered In the Dr. Earth that I use. If I add the things on the list that are missing from my mix, I came up with this recipe:
Organic Super Soil
2 CU FT bag Fox Farm Happy Frog
Mix One 1lb bag each of
Dr Earth Root Zone,
Flower Girl and
Home Grown. Add 1 Cup of this mixture.
1/2 Cup Oyster Shell Flour
1/2 Cup Gypsum
1/2 Cup Malted Barley Powder
1/4 Cup Azomite
1/2 Cup Neem
1 Cup Basalt
3 Cups Bio-Char
I got rid of the bone meal, blood meal, And lowered all of the supplements to approximately half the amount since my base soil is Fox Farm. It is hard to find a lot of the ingredients, so I tried to sort of tailor the recipe to the things I can source easily.
That plant is just perfect Laquer.
Missed this...gorgeous!
LaquerHead
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That looks good! Im not sure, but aren't the first ingredients listed on bags the ones most plentiful? If so, I'd grab kelp...and if not..I'd still grab kelp 
then it sounds about perfect. Your plants will thank you!
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That looks good! Im not sure, but aren't the first ingredients listed on bags the ones most plentiful? If so, I'd grab kelp...and if not..I'd still grab kelp
I have pictures of the listed ingredients. I will dig them up and post them so we can Philosophicate LOL
@InTheShed Fixed.
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Oh how I remember Kharma. She is delicious too. LOL
Philosophicate. Duh!
LaquerHead
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I hope kelp isnt the least of the ingredients...it would kind of surprise me! But it does seem like alot of bone/blood meal which I believe contributes to the higher phosphates! Didnt notice the alfalfa in my initial search, that stuff is good too! But pretty stinking hot if a person isnt real careful.
The best thing about sourcing things separately is you know the amounts of each input. I would feel like im going in blind using premixed of anything. I took the one premixed bag I had and threw it on my raised beds for the veggies!
I havent studied singular nutrients or npk very much so im not postive thats even alot of phosphates...just seemed like it. You and shed would know more than I on that!
The best thing about sourcing things separately is you know the amounts of each input. I would feel like im going in blind using premixed of anything. I took the one premixed bag I had and threw it on my raised beds for the veggies!
I havent studied singular nutrients or npk very much so im not postive thats even alot of phosphates...just seemed like it. You and shed would know more than I on that!
Amy
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The problem that I face is that the nurseries around me are all small and obscure and don't carry a lot of specialized ingredients. Then there are the big box stores that offer even less. A lot of times I'm stuck ordering stuff off Amazon at a premium, like 13 bucks for fucking straw, STRAW! LOL But you do make good points about sourcing everything separately and in a perfect world, I would definitely be going that route. Like for example, I have to use a premade soil as my base because the only place I can get compost from, sells cheap mushroom compost made from sewage at .75 cents a bag. Excuse me but no thank you. LMAO But thanks to you guys I am surely getting where I need to be in spite of these limitations, sewage, and or mushrooms.
Pjs420
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More simple to you! Still seems like a crazy horticultural game of scavenger hunt to me
here ya go can get everything ya want shipped right to your door!
retrix your plants kind of look like mine did when the soil was too hot, seems youve got it sorted though... Just plain water and she should come back around
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Yep. that's what I'm starting to think now too. Especially after seeing them one day after a flush.
Oh wow and the build a soil? Thanks for that link man.
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Okay first things first. I would like to give a shout out to 420 Magazine for stripping all of the data from our photos, even when using the direct Attach Files method. That just shows that you guys care about security and us. So thank you for that.
Secondly, the plants aren't getting any worse so hopefully that means we are finally starting to turn the corner.
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Thanks to @LaquerHead for reminding me about soil PH. Now that I look back, I should never have tried to adjust the PH. Just flush out the excess nutrients in the soil with plain water and let it reset itself.
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It's called the "Calbox" You place your calibration solutions in it and store them. It makes it really quick to calibrate. I found it on their website. pretty cool I think.
It's called the "Calbox" You place your calibration solutions in it and store them. It makes it really quick to calibrate. I found it on their website. pretty cool I think.
LaquerHead
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I think that plant is doing damn well Retrix! You'll sort out the leaf edges soon enough. 
I always have trouble following the calibration instructions for the Apera. Probably why I avoid doing it very often. I feel like I'm making it worse rather than better! Seems like the button-pushing sequence and when to put the pen in the solution is written in google translate!
I always have trouble following the calibration instructions for the Apera. Probably why I avoid doing it very often. I feel like I'm making it worse rather than better! Seems like the button-pushing sequence and when to put the pen in the solution is written in google translate!
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