Outdoor Nutrients

[Sinkyone]

seamaiden: i just have what im allowed to have, 25. now i dont know if i can piss that much to water all my ladies but maybe ill give it a shot.
I had thought about the ACT. but i think that would require me to get a declorineator. or i guess i can just bubble water.
Sinkyone: you dont like Old Age? why would i be thowing my money away?

Age Old is OK, but I am just not a big fan of the bottled nutrients as your primary source of food. I've also seem them but out a few funky batches over the years that caused problems with other growers I know. In my experience you will get better results outside with proper soil prep, top dressing, weekly foliar feeding, and (the most critical part) aerated compost tea (ACT.) It will also cost much less. Really cannot stress how important the ACT is for an outdoor grow. Put your money into getting or building a good brewer, you will get far more bang for your buck than using bottled fertilizers.

 

[Sinkyone]

Point and case: First pic - plant that was grown using liquid organic fertilizers primarily (mostly Botanicare/Organicare), hit 7' across and 7' tall at harvest. Second pic - plant that was grown using top dressings and ACT, hit 7' tall and 14' across at harvest. Only liquid fertilizers used were for foliar feeding. Second plant produced almost 50% more, and fertilizer cost was about 75% less. Saw this trend across the entire garden over the last few years.

Now if you are not going organic, then that is a different story...

 

[talktosamson]

I don't keep pictures of my large plants, nor do I post them on the IC, but using a combination of good soil amendments and my own feeding schedule I have grown plants 10-12 feet tall and 10 feet wide. Like I said above everyone has their own method and there is more than one right way to do it. The key is figuring out the way you like and dialing it down. I saw 10-14 pound plants down here this year that were pumped full of roots organic and soul synthetic ferts, but my boy has his feeding system down so he out yields everyone in the area. He also has 5 years of established soil beds.

Sinkyone, much respect for those plants. They are healthy and massive as well. Looks like you have a killer full sun spot there. It takes a lot of know how and skill to really make ladies get that big. I do agree that soil amendments/top dressing are some of the best things you can do in an outdoor season, organic worm castings are as big of a part of my outdoor regiment as anything else.

Lastly, I have a few patients I grow for that have cancer and a few who have muscular problems and without my medicine they would not be able to work, get out of bed and function. This is first and foremost why I do what I do. My wife and I have real lives and real jobs, but this is my true passion. I know what I do works, this is why I usually choose to stay the course and advise others to try my way as well. until I really saw that the way I did things worked and made a difference I didn't give advice like I do now. My patient have given me feedback over the years in regards to taste/smoke and potency and I have adjusted accordingly.

 

[Yes4Prop215]

haha thats crazy....the best tasting and smelling weed from nothing but urine!! wtf!

bet that was one stinky pot!

why do lawns and grass that dogs continuously urinate on always look like shit?

 

[Oregonism]

You would have to look it up, but dogs have urea as a big component of urine and its extra nitrate or nitrite which are NO4 and NO3, I think. Females are worse, I get patches in my lawn from the bitch, lol.

 

[SeaMaiden]

haha thats crazy....the best tasting and smelling weed from nothing but urine!! wtf!

bet that was one stinky pot!

why do lawns and grass that dogs continuously urinate on always look like shit?

For the same reason that any plant that's grossly overfed looks like shit.

And yeah, I think it's crazy, too. It kinda broke my sugar paradigm. But I'll probably keep on using them (sugars).

 

[mexcurandero420]

Glacial rock dust, Azomite, kelp, humic/fulvic acid, ACT ones a week would be my choice.

Keep on growing