Just wondering what experienced growers think of this recipe

[mariman]

medium:
80% promix bx
20% organic wiggle worm worm castings

for feeding per gallon:
3 tablespoons organic neptune's harvest hydrolyzed fish liquid fert 2-4-1

1 tablespoon seaweed liquid plant food from live seaweed 0-0-1

1 tablespoon organic unsulphured molasses (I think the nutrient value is something like 1-0-6)

1 tablespoon epsom salts (fit for human consumption)

scoopful (scoop provided in container) plant success mycorrizae and bacteria with seaweed and humic acids

couple drops of superthrive

all mixed well to dissolve
city water with low ppm (30 or so)

Just wanted to see if anyone has any recommendations, ideas, etc.

 

[mariman]

the reason I ask is...

the reason I ask is...

I used this when transplanting some girls into 20 gallon pots from 1 gallon pots (ghost train haze, pineapple chunk, and trainwreck) and they took off and have done very well.

...but then I transplanted a chem (from seed fem) which was really vigorous and just as big as those mentioned above into a 20 gallon with the exact recipes listed and it seems to have fried it overnight. All drooping and getting crispy

any thoughts?

 

[Weird]

I have used the exact forumla sans the salts, I have also encountered the burn issue you mentioned

in containers were the plants are drinking fast and have a very healthy established root system i do not have issues but if I use a heavy application on plants that are not drinking fast ( so the water with neptune feed sits in the container for a while) or plants that are newly transplanted, young or have other sensitivities I can sometimes get some burn, I still really like Neptunes as well as earth juice but have transitioned to an amended soil mix.

I use agrowinn casting along with neem source neem meal, neptunes kelp meal, neptunes crab meal, (special source) rock dust along with some coast of maine composts I am also using organic soil from older runs as a compost source.

no till on all my older containers this run, above mix on the new ones

 

[mariman]

thanks for the reply

thanks for the reply

I thought I was simply missing something that I didn't see myself haha. I still think I am ... but, ya I was surprised because of how vigorous this chem was, and also because I have grown chems from seed and they all could handle heavy nutes.

Perhaps it will remain a mystery haha.

I'll cut back to one tablespoon of fish for the next transplants and I won't add the epsom salts. I've got 7 more in gallon containers that are a bit rootbound (elvis diesel, backwoods, ak47 (smells like cherries), grape stomper, cannatonic, guava chem, and psychosis) Hopefully that was an isolated freak incident.

 

[mariman]

Weird

Weird

have you seen a difference in Earth Juice Bloom? I opened and smelled a container of it at a store and it didn't smell the same or look the same. It used to smell sweet and look kind of milky I think. I do like that stuff. or did haha

Perhaps I'll go to another store and compare...

 

[mariman]

and Weird

and Weird

I love the idea of a soil mix that has all the nutrients the plants need...I'll have to mess around with that. Have you ever used espoma organic fertilizer?

 

[supermanlives]

my ej aint changed any, I buy a lot of ej stuff. bloom and meta k rock. I like being able to have a bloom with no n

 

[mariman]

good to know supermanlives and it's also good to know that ej has not changed as well hehe