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Feeding Plants Rice Water ?
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Hippo
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cosa the starch ?
cosa the starch ?
Dont quote me on this but plants produce starch themselves, not sure if they can take it up through the roots anyway. This is the only reason i can think why u'd wanna do this. I really cant see anything beneficial from doing this, plus is might throw off the ph.
May i ask wat made u think of this?
Goodluck
Hippo
cosa the starch ?
Dont quote me on this but plants produce starch themselves, not sure if they can take it up through the roots anyway. This is the only reason i can think why u'd wanna do this. I really cant see anything beneficial from doing this, plus is might throw off the ph.
May i ask wat made u think of this?
Goodluck
Hippo
JohnBudd
Active member
Rice?
Rice?
I have never heard of it myself. I don't think plants need the starch so much. P-K and a dozen or so other micronutrients are needed, but starch is not one of them.
I am investigating using 100 gallon aquarium with fish/plants as continious organic feeding recirculating system. Mother Nature can be imitated to a point, but true organics rock!
Please let me know where/how you heard of this, sounds interesting.
Rice?
I have never heard of it myself. I don't think plants need the starch so much. P-K and a dozen or so other micronutrients are needed, but starch is not one of them.
I am investigating using 100 gallon aquarium with fish/plants as continious organic feeding recirculating system. Mother Nature can be imitated to a point, but true organics rock!
Please let me know where/how you heard of this, sounds interesting.
nachash
New member
I read this .........
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My great great uncle served in the navy and has lived all over the world and seen almost everything (not really thats impossible but hees seen quite a bit). I placed my 1st plant, which had been flowering for about 2 weeks, in his care while i went to an outer island for the weekend. When i came home....lo and behold my plant was thick-stemed, dark green leafed, and coated...literally smothered in white crystals. I asked him if he used fertilizers on it (i'm not into chem....i'm more of an organic grower myself) and he said he had just watered it every couple days. Later my great great aunt told me they became like that because he had used what she uses on her orchids to make them giant and very colorfull...RICE WATER.
*The Starchy water that comes from cleaning white calrose rice is like an energy drink for marijuana. I tried it again on 2 plants, feeding 1 the rice water and not the other. The starched one became thick and crystally while the other was just average. They had the same light, same grow space, trimed the same, ect....
*note: you should only do this during flowering and about every 3-5 days. The last Rice Watering should be a week-a week and a half before harvest.
until next sutra.....
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It sounded screwy to me & not something I'm like to try.
I just wodered what you more advanced & experienced had to say.
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My great great uncle served in the navy and has lived all over the world and seen almost everything (not really thats impossible but hees seen quite a bit). I placed my 1st plant, which had been flowering for about 2 weeks, in his care while i went to an outer island for the weekend. When i came home....lo and behold my plant was thick-stemed, dark green leafed, and coated...literally smothered in white crystals. I asked him if he used fertilizers on it (i'm not into chem....i'm more of an organic grower myself) and he said he had just watered it every couple days. Later my great great aunt told me they became like that because he had used what she uses on her orchids to make them giant and very colorfull...RICE WATER.
*The Starchy water that comes from cleaning white calrose rice is like an energy drink for marijuana. I tried it again on 2 plants, feeding 1 the rice water and not the other. The starched one became thick and crystally while the other was just average. They had the same light, same grow space, trimed the same, ect....
*note: you should only do this during flowering and about every 3-5 days. The last Rice Watering should be a week-a week and a half before harvest.
until next sutra.....
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It sounded screwy to me & not something I'm like to try.
I just wodered what you more advanced & experienced had to say.
Re: Rice?
Re: Rice?
John got any pics or other info you could pass our way on the Fish Tank a Recirculating System is something I've had a hankering to try.
Eventually I would like to get my shroom grow and Cannabis grow circulating air ect, between them. Might be more work than it's worth, just a stoners idea.
Yea know Fish/Shrooms/Cannabis in a controlled but connected system.
Rice water well Imagin the UNCLE BENs Stuff wont work as well cause it's cooked already. Hell if it works why not.
Keep us updated dudes.
Intresting stuff guys.
Sin
Re: Rice?
JohnBudd said:
John got any pics or other info you could pass our way on the Fish Tank a Recirculating System is something I've had a hankering to try.
Eventually I would like to get my shroom grow and Cannabis grow circulating air ect, between them. Might be more work than it's worth, just a stoners idea.
Yea know Fish/Shrooms/Cannabis in a controlled but connected system.
Rice water well Imagin the UNCLE BENs Stuff wont work as well cause it's cooked already. Hell if it works why not.
Keep us updated dudes.
Intresting stuff guys.
Sin
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laylow
here is a blast from the past... any truth in rice water and healthier plants?
DEATH BY SNUSNU
Member
Proly the starches are feeding the microherd and mycorhizae fungi in turn enriching the rhizosphere and the circle of life is complete. And or the rice water is adding unrefined lacto bacillus to the soil/medium. Sounds like folks were onto something 10 yrs ago...I'd cosign this or just complete the lacto capture.
palmero
Active member
Rice water (water which was used for cold washing aka cleaning rice, not containing any rice) is used
as the base to breed local bacilli.
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=96325
Have heared simailar statments refering to "potatoe water" whereas imho this is the cooled down version
of water in which potatoes have been cooked or as well
stored (peeled)some hours in cold water to prevent discoloration (my mother likes to do this).
Starch may be the accelerator for some local bio life, lookup the organic soil section, maybe pos or neg (just your enviroment).
So You are not feeding the plants but the local microherd that way.
Only for soil i think, better dont try in hydro.
Title should be Feeding soil rice water.
Salu2
as the base to breed local bacilli.
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=96325
Have heared simailar statments refering to "potatoe water" whereas imho this is the cooled down version
of water in which potatoes have been cooked or as well
stored (peeled)some hours in cold water to prevent discoloration (my mother likes to do this).
Starch may be the accelerator for some local bio life, lookup the organic soil section, maybe pos or neg (just your enviroment).
So You are not feeding the plants but the local microherd that way.
Only for soil i think, better dont try in hydro.
Title should be Feeding soil rice water.
Salu2
Delfin0690
New member
Nature's secret...
Nature's secret...
Growing my first baby and will feed it rice water. Anxious to see the result. Rice water for plants/gardening has been used by ages and grew up in a house where rice water and coffee ground was the food of the house and outside plants, back in the island is what we all use. So let's see how it works with my baby!
Nature's secret...
Growing my first baby and will feed it rice water. Anxious to see the result. Rice water for plants/gardening has been used by ages and grew up in a house where rice water and coffee ground was the food of the house and outside plants, back in the island is what we all use. So let's see how it works with my baby!
I am guessing it feeds the soil biota in similar way to molasses?
A great uncle who is willing to care for your grow is priceless!
A great uncle who is willing to care for your grow is priceless!
I will drink my ricewater thank you very much. Love me some horchata. With all the nutrients available in the market we don't need this technology lol. Its like using piss for nitrogen you don't need to but you can try it.
Soak a cup of rice in water with a stick or two of cinnamon for an hour then mix in a blender and strain. Use the water to make a gallon of horchata by adding water to fill your gallon pitcher and some evaporated milk one small can with a tablespoon or two of liquid vanilla and 4 to 6 big spoons of sugar those big ass cooking spoons then add ice or chill. You don't have to use evaporated milk but the liquid vanilla is a must add to your liking if it's not sweet enough. This makes a good drink for humans don't pour on your plants! lol sorry off topic.
Soak a cup of rice in water with a stick or two of cinnamon for an hour then mix in a blender and strain. Use the water to make a gallon of horchata by adding water to fill your gallon pitcher and some evaporated milk one small can with a tablespoon or two of liquid vanilla and 4 to 6 big spoons of sugar those big ass cooking spoons then add ice or chill. You don't have to use evaporated milk but the liquid vanilla is a must add to your liking if it's not sweet enough. This makes a good drink for humans don't pour on your plants! lol sorry off topic.
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