Where to buy Maxicrop seaweed?

[CT Guy]

CT guy,

I mostly grow since 5 years! But I never added anything to my pro-mix except nutrients like canna or general hydro.

I've read A LOT on this forum. I don't want to spend money on thing that I don't really need and learn about other person experience. I want to take few good tips and start testing from there...not from nothing!

M seaweed compost is the Biomax seaweed. I've read only good thing about their shrimp compost but can't find it here.

Thank you!

That was kinda my point. If you read on this forum enough, you would see that there are much less expensive ways to provide nutrients for your plants than the bottled stuff you're currently buying.

 

[ExoSteve]

Thank you guys!! I love the no cook receipe and the few bottled stuff!!

I tried Wormcasting that they sell at my hydrostore for this grow...I must say that for 25$ for 30L I'm not impressed at all. My 4$ shrimp compost did much better.

I will add more perlite in my soil next grow and continu to read all the summer. Its too late right now to start messing with this because I start my last grow in 1 month.

 

[Buddah Watcha]

Thank you guys!! I love the no cook receipe and the few bottled stuff!!

I tried Wormcasting that they sell at my hydrostore for this grow...I must say that for 25$ for 30L I'm not impressed at all. My 4$ shrimp compost did much better.

I will add more perlite in my soil next grow and continu to read all the summer. Its too late right now to start messing with this because I start my last grow in 1 month.

indeed bagged EWC from the store its not that great... but however, if you have fresh EWC, straight out of the worm bin, thriving with thousands of micro guys there it will make a great difference! Shrimp compost is good as well!

Good luck!

 

[ExoSteve]

When in need to water/fed just mix a tbsp or 2 of EWC on a gallon of water, tbsp or big bloom, LK and molasses.

Can you clarify this please. I mix 1 tbsp or 2 in 1 gallon with EWC with a tbsp of FF BB and LK and molasses? What is your frequency of watering with nutrients?

 

[Buddah Watcha]

Can you clarify this please. I mix 1 tbsp or 2 in 1 gallon with EWC with a tbsp of FF BB and LK and molasses? What is your frequency of watering with nutrients?

This is the way I do it, grab an empty gallon of water, put 2 tbsp of EWC in the bottom of it and fill it up with h20. Just the water dropping on the EWC will make the water a dark color. This will boost the microactivity of the soil and a bit of food too!

After that, if the plants look a bit hungry, I'll mix a tbsp of LK, a tbsp of molasses, and a tbsp or 2 of FFBB (Big bloom is very light, you can go up to a cup per gallon, but really, go 2 tbsp tops and you should be good). Shake real good... I'll prolly feed on and off with this mix till mid flowering, then cut the molasses and maybe another feed once or twice with LK and BB and go straight h20 3 weeks before chop.

I'll probably feed a total of 5 times on a 10 week strain! A bottle of BB and LK will last you a year if you are growing 6-8 plants on 5 gallon of soil this manner...

Hope that explains a bit better! Let me know if you got any Q's!

Be safe and good luck!

 

[ExoSteve]

Thanks Buddha!!

 

[ExoSteve]

I will try to mix compost like you say! If I mix compost in water until I reach like 500ppm...do you think it would work or you don't recommand this?

Here are my compost!! Voilà shrimp compost (4$ 30L) and Biomax (8$ 35L)

I tried...

1 plant with 75% pro-mix HP + 25% Voilà shrimp compost
1 plant with 75% pro-mix HP + 25% biomax seaweed compost
1 plant with 75% pro-mix HP + 13% biomax seaweed compost + 13% Voilà shrimp compost

The Voilà compost worked so well in my previous grow. In only 1 week the plant got 4 times bigger (they were 1 week old when transplanted into pro-mix hp 75% + 25% shrimp compost) and the leaves got so HUGEEEE!!

Shrimp smell a little bit and seaweed STINK LIKE SHIT!

 

[ExoSteve]

Big bloom is very light, you can go up to a cup per gallon, but really, go 2 tbsp tops and you should be good

1 cup per gallon? Look the feeding chart...

http://www.bustan.ca/product_detail.asp?menuID=21&SID=83&PID=860#

They say to feed big bloom in grow stage 2 tbsp and flowering stage 1 tbsp...weird!

 

[intotheunknown]

maxicrop liquid seaweed is ok but not ideal. as it contains chlorine.

if youre going to go for liquid seaweed, Neptune's Harvest is the way to go. good stuff.

if youre looking to add seaweed to build a soil, look for algamin kelp meal fertilizer (which is made by maxicrop) but not labeled as, unless you read the back small print.

2 good products. but stay away from the liquid maxicrop seaweed.

 

[ExoSteve]

Thank you!!

Which one would you choose and I must use which feed chart? Outdoor? I want to mainly replace rhyzotonic! So I would choose the 0-0-1 and complete with bio flores ?
http://www.begreencanada.ca/index.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=55

 

[mad librettist]

maxicrop liquid seaweed is ok but not ideal. as it contains chlorine.

if youre going to go for liquid seaweed, Neptune's Harvest is the way to go. good stuff.

if youre looking to add seaweed to build a soil, look for algamin kelp meal fertilizer (which is made by maxicrop) but not labeled as, unless you read the back small print.

2 good products. but stay away from the liquid maxicrop seaweed.

the chlorine is not a concern. they give you that number to give you an idea of how many salts are in the product. So NaCl (table salt) will show up as chlorine.

 

[SeaMaiden]

Thanks for pointing that out, mad. There is also the issue of Cl being a necessary component, as a trace or ultra-trace nutrient, to metabolic/life processes. Chlorine in and of itself isn't automatically bad.

 

[mad librettist]

Thanks for pointing that out, mad. There is also the issue of Cl being a necessary component, as a trace or ultra-trace nutrient, to metabolic/life processes. Chlorine in and of itself isn't automatically bad.

very true!

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Importance_of_chlorine_in_human_body

Without sodium chloride (salt), there would be no life. Life began in the ocean, a largest repository of salt which is derived from the weathering of the continents.

Sodium chloride literally keeps our bodies from drying up, moves our muscles, makes our meals matter, and attacks germs to keep us healthy.

Our body's cells exist in a sea of fluid. This extracellular body fluid is mostly water, along with the charged atoms (ions) of sodium and chloride. Chloride plays an essential role in a delicate balancing act: providing for the electrical neutrality and the correct pressure of body fluids, and keeping the acid-base balance of the body.

One result of this balancing act is that the amount of water we retain and concentrations of salt in our bodies remain relatively constant over time. We don't dry up nor do we bloat uncontrollably. When changes occur, the balance reasserts itself. For example, after heavy exercise and perspiration the body requires salt; and we are usually thirsty after eating salty food.

Human Body: Muscles

Sodium ions play an important role in our body's communication system. The nimbleness of a world class pianist or the dexterity of an Olympian athlete depend on the inner working of the central nervous system. Sodium ions are vital to the transmission of impulses from our brains to our muscles through the complex network of nerve cells.

On the flip side are the chloride ions, which assist in balancing the electrical charges throughout our nervous system.

Human Body: Digestive System

Chloride ions are building blocks of hydrochloric acid, which is essential to our digestive system. Hydrochloric acid made in the stomach has two main purposes: to help destroy germs that arrived with the food; and to help pepsin, an enzyme, break down the proteins found in the food stuffs, ensuring that essential nutrients are made available to the body.

Human Body: Immune System

In the immune system, which is charged with fighting off the daily invasion of germs, chlorine is there to lend a hand. When infections take place, hypochlorite -- a chlorine-containing compound which is a well-known disinfectant -- forms in white blood cells. Hypochlorite itself attacks the germs, or helps to activate other agents that do the work.



Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Importance_of_chlorine_in_human_body#ixzz1jdzd6FXp

 

[intotheunknown]

Thank you!!

Which one would you choose and I must use which feed chart? Outdoor? I want to mainly replace rhyzotonic! So I would choose the 0-0-1 and complete with bio flores ?
http://www.begreencanada.ca/index.php?main_page=index&
manufacturers_id=55

well this really depends on a number of things. what soil you plan to use, what other products youre using along with the seaweed.

you can even use all of neptunes products such as the seaweed, seaweed/fish, fish for a grow.

but yes its the 0-0-1 youre going to want to get.

 

[intotheunknown]

the chlorine is not a concern. they give you that number to give you an idea of how many salts are in the product. So NaCl (table salt) will show up as chlorine.

it really doesnt matter to me...
if it happens to say "chlorine" as an ingredient. i trust what the bottle says. and would rather not use it.
i dont see how in any way it would be beneficial.

 

[ExoSteve]

well this really depends on a number of things. what soil you plan to use, what other products youre using along with the seaweed.

you can even use all of neptunes products such as the seaweed, seaweed/fish, fish for a grow.

but yes its the 0-0-1 youre going to want to get.

75% pro-mix hp + 25% seaweed compost + GHO veg + CANNA Flores + neptune 0-0-1 (for the roots)

 

[SeaMaiden]

it really doesnt matter to me...
if it happens to say "chlorine" as an ingredient. i trust what the bottle says. and would rather not use it.
i dont see how in any way it would be beneficial.

You're stuck in a mindset that you need to let go of. Shift your paradigm--just because you see chlorine does not automatically make it bad. And it's not chlorine "as an ingredient" (suggesting it was added), it's chlorine as a component that makes up the seaweed itself.

Ever hear of folks using a drop or three of chlorine in their seed-soaking water to get difficult to crack seeds going?

 

[ExoSteve]

Its like Tylenol ... 1 or 2 is good but 20 is bad!!

 

[intotheunknown]

that is in fact correct. my mistake.
naturally seaweed does contain chlorine in the form of salts.
but i do believe the bottle should be labeled differently/more accurately.

ill still stick to neptunes any day.

 

[SeaMaiden]

I would appreciate it if containers would list everything that's available. I want to know if it's providing trace or ultra-trace elements (Cl is but one of those necessary elements, too). But labeling is a function of government, or something like that, inasmuch as what ends up on the label is only as much as is required by the government. Or something like that.

I should see if I can find the article I read on trace/ultratrace elements online, see if I can repost it. Fascinating stuff, especially in the context of food.