I'm excited....

[Dan42nepa]

As far as i know... i am growing 100 percent organic using organic bagged soil (master nursery gardeners gold) description: All natural rich blend of Fir bark fines, forest humus, sphagnum peat moss, perlite, worm castings chicken manure, bat guano, kelp meal and pH balanced to 6.5 with oyster shell and dolomites limes. For use in all indoor/outdoor potting containers and raised bed applications.
I have only fed them with mexican bat guano for nitrogyn, indo bat guano for phospherus mollasses, sea kelp and occaisional epsom salts added to the tea.
They are in 5 gallon containers under 400 w HPS lights and are showing no signs of defieciency after 22 days of flower after veging for 2 months. I have 3 northern lights and one exceptional bagseed female (1 sprout after 40 seeds attempted)
I am very happy and excited as this is my first grow and things have gone so well. I am so happy i took the organic path and think of all the money i saved brewing my own teas as compared to buying bottled nutes.
I have a question as i keep anticipating some sort of defeciency.. When would this show itself? The plants seem to be doing much better now then they did in veg and actually seem to use less water which seems crazy. I only water once every 4-5 days. I will feed them today with probably the last indo bat guano. mollases tea until the end. Think that will be enough?

 

[BurnOne]

Good job.
But I think they need to be fed more. But that's up to you. As they bud, they'll need more P and K.
Keep up the good work.
Burn1

 

[Dan42nepa]

hmmmm so you trhink maybe one more indo bat guano in which week? I am in week 4 now and just fed them. What about the K? Whats a good source for that?

 

[BurnOne]

For K use Maxicrop powdered concentrate 1-0-4 or Maxicrop liquid 0-0-1 or Neptune's Harvest Seaweed 0-0-1. Earth Juice Meta-K is another good choice.
Nitrogen is what burns plants. I have never "overdone it" with P or K.
I use guano teas for feeding and I feed all the way up to the last watering.

Here is what I use...

Seedlings less than 1 month old nute tea mix-
5 tbs. Black Strap Molasses
1-cup earthworm castings/5 gallons of water every 3rd watering

Veg mix-
1/3 cup Peruvian Seabird Guano (PSG)
1/3 cup High N Bat Guano (Mexican)
1/3 cup Earth Worm Castings (EWC)
5 tsp. Maxicrop 1-0-4 powdered kelp extract
5 tbs. Liquid Karma
5 tbs. Black Strap Molasses
@ 1-cup mix/5 gallons of water every 3rd watering.

Flowering nute tea mix:
2/3 cup Peruvian Seabird Guano
2/3 cup Earth Worm Castings
2/3 cup High P Guano (Indonesian or Jamaican)
5 tbs. Maxicrop 1-0-4 powdered kelp extract
5 tbs. Black Strap Molasses
@ 2 cups/5 gallons of water EVERY watering.
You can use queen size knee high nylon stockings for tea bags. 3 pair for a dollar at the dollar store. Tell 'em you use them for paint strainers. Put the recommended tea in the stocking, tie a loop knot in it and hang it in your tea bucket. The tea should look like a mud puddle. Agitate the bag in the water vigorously. An aquarium pump and air stone will dissolve oxygen into the solution and keep the good bacteria (microherd) alive and thriving. Let it bubble a day or two before you use it. If you find you are making too much tea and having to throw it out, use 2 1/2 gallons of water and cut the nute amount by half.

Burn1

 

[Dan42nepa]

ok.. i have the neptunes harvest already and add it to my tea occaisionally. Usually I had been using it for foilar feeding.

Thanks

 

[BurnOne]

Use it as directed every watering.
Burn1

 

[Suby]

B1 is right,

Remember that it takes awhile for elements to get broken down in the soil so be prepared, while guanos are quick acting a relatively high release there are few sources of K that are quick or high release besides wood ash which is not very good for anything IMHO other than whacking ph out and concentrating carbonates in your soil.
Feed a regular dose of k with teas or plain water, i like to feed it in teas because the accompanying microbes will break it down quickfast.