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Tutorial Organics for Beginners

Lapides

Lapides

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MM beat me to it, so I third the motion to feed them to your worms!

edit: i guess i FOURTH the motion
 
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dank.frank

dank.frank

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I think the use of egg shells is just a responsible / easy thing we can all do, in the name of not throwing something else into the garbage bins. Part of the whole organic bit is to try and utilize what you have around you, in your everyday life - and I'm pretty sure MOST people eat or use eggs...

So it only makes sense to get the most out of the waste material we produce just by living our daily lives.

Worm beds - certainly help accomplish that while providing an awesome resource (castings) for the garden. EWC are by far one of the most expensive things to just go out and buy from a store...and even then quality is not always reflective of the price.

Truly, if there is a MUST HAVE "miracle" type of component to organic soils...it would be EWC. It changes everything...from tilth, to microbial habitat, to pH regulation, to nutritional provision, etc.

Worms are pretty amazing little creatures and their turds rock! ;)



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Ichabod Crane

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I throw all my plant waste to the worms, and all my grow room supply boxes. More stealthy that way. And I get worm castings from it. What could be better than that.

And worms are pretty much no work at all. I throw the waste in with some wet sawdust (which were free) a little green sand and what ever else I have that they will eat. About the same as lifting the trash can lid it is that much work.
 
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vitamingreeninc

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Hello, I am in the LC mix with dry recipe #1 with the same strain, 4 different plants. 3 gallon smart pots. Two of them are very similar in structure and are both apparently heavy feeders. I let my soul mix cook for 11 days before transplanting into it and waited 3 days to flip. I am 4 days into flower and experiencing pretty heavy nitrogen defincency. I was thinking of addressing the problem with a bit of blood meal top dressed into the two N hungry girls. Is this advisable? How much should I topdress considering it is flower, but early flower. I was thinking 1/2 tablespoon per plant? Thank you
 
intotheunknown

intotheunknown

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You usually want to wait at least 3 or so weeks to "cook" the batch, Ive gotten away with 2 weeks, but this is type of mix dependent in my experience. A month or more is optimal.

I do not use blood or bone meals in my soils which is another story.
Do you have the capabilities to make an AACT tea?

Looks to me like the reason this happened was due to lack of established microherd, and just simply not enough time for the amendments to break down and become available.
An AACT tea would probably be the best route, or a topdressing with quality worm castings ( a cup or so) and maybe a tablespoon of kelp meal per plant.
 
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vitamingreeninc

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intotheunknown said:
You usually want to wait at least 3 or so weeks to "cook" the batch, Ive gotten away with 2 weeks, but this is type of mix dependent in my experience. A month or more is optimal.

I do not use blood or bone meals in my soils which is another story.
Do you have the capabilities to make an AACT tea?

Looks to me like the reason this happened was due to lack of established microherd, and just simply not enough time for the amendments to break down and become available.
An AACT tea would probably be the best route, or a topdressing with quality worm castings ( a cup or so) and maybe a tablespoon of kelp meal per plant.
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When I transplanted I had given them an AACT with 1/3 cup EWC, 1 tablespoon molasses, and a handful of thermal compost and made a gallon of that and diluted it with another gallon of water and fed it to 4 plants.
I will topdress with the tablespoon of kelp per plant and since I have to water tonight, I will hit them with another AACT as I made it before.

I agree that the soil isn't totally ready but the other two plants are fine in it, so I am right on the cusp, I just need more activity to break it down and make it more available. lol, it's good to have knowledge available to help me think and help me along the path to organic goodness, thanks @intotheunkown:tiphat:
 
Kozmo

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vitamingreeninc said:
When I transplanted I had given them an AACT with 1/3 cup EWC, 1 tablespoon molasses, and a handful of thermal compost and made a gallon of that and diluted it with another gallon of water and fed it to 4 plants.
I will topdress with the tablespoon of kelp per plant and since I have to water tonight, I will hit them with another AACT as I made it before.

I agree that the soil isn't totally ready but the other two plants are fine in it, so I am right on the cusp, I just need more activity to break it down and make it more available. lol, it's good to have knowledge available to help me think and help me along the path to organic goodness, thanks @intotheunkown:tiphat:
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Be careful! Are they going straight into flower? Here's a pick of a plant after I jumped the gun.
 
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chefbudz

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do you guys ever have problems with your aact becomeing bad and lowering in ph? i am not useing an airstone i just have a air tube from pump going into 5gal bucket could that be my problem?
 
Mikell

Mikell

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Recipe (specific, not general quantities of ingredients preferably :)), brew time, temperature, etc., would be helpful
 
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