@everyone - I appreciate you.
@Get Mo - I'll have to check that book out. Thanks for the recommendation.
@Chunkypigs - This is what I'm rolling with. This is based on a standard lbs per acre formulation, just broken down to smaller scale for at home growers. I'm fully confident running these basic NPK profiles, with some of their suggestions modified a bit, would produce the quality for flowers were are expecting and used to seeing, while at the same time, building the soil FASTER. 3 years vs 5 years, in terms of building organic matter and fostering bacterial, fungal and microbial communities.
I appreciate you sharing their take on it though - but I don't think that is going to result in the same product we equate to as "dank".
You can base amend the whole field that way, but I'd suggest you have drip lines and fertigation systems in place, because you are going to need them if the plants get any size to them at all.
EWC - 100# per acre. That's about 3 bags of Wiggle Worm on an ENTIRE acre. That's not doing anything but helping the bulk amendment mix stick together as it goes through the spreader. As far as soil fertility, that's moot at that scale.
That's the problem I have with most of these suggestions. (and I respect the source, so no offense intended) I know exactly how much a cannabis plant can consume.
It's exactly why, I'd rather plant 2 acres at a cost of $12-15k per acre to amend the soil properly. I'm not trying to feed a plant it's most basic needs. I'm trying to build the soil and ensure that my crop potential increases every year as a result of having improved the soil quality. After 3 years, input cost decrease substantially, as soil health has improved. Not generically either, but in specific areas. Organic matter. CEC and proper saturation ratios.
The list goes on - but the best investment you can ever make as an organic farmer is into the soil. If the soil is right, it'll grow anything you want, including a crop with high nutritional demands like cannabis or CBD Hemp, and to a lesser degree, fiber or seed hemp.
Anyway...lol... - 740-1110-945
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Point being, I think they are under feeding a bit, if they are trying to produce truly dank CBD flower. (that being an assumption) Also, if their data is derived from university studies, it is likely based on OLD data and commercial fiber types with very very limited to no cannabinoid production. Just an assumption.
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Sorry to hear you can't grow nickman fr. You are right to do what you have to do for the kids. A bad childhood is everlasting.
Better news - I picked up 2 x SP3000 from the safe addy earlier this afternoon. They seem to be in good shape. Packaging intact.
I'll be posting an unboxing and such later tonight.
The timing is perfect. I have enough rooted clones of the Boz to transplant into the main bed and get things vegging under these new lights.
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