Tink3rB3ll
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Ok here it is...
So I have been reading a bunch about all aspects of veg.(Problem is who do I listen to?) One thing that interests me is Spent coffee grounds for fertilizer. I do see some not so good things and more good things. So here's the deal I want to see for myself if spent coffee grounds during Veg helps or not.
So I have a 18 day old unknown bag seed from popping out of soil that has had some stress. I topped it and planted it in the matter of hrs. (I'm new so I'm gonna make mistakes)
I'm gonna use this baby for the expierment.
So I took about 3/4th cup of coffee grounds from my cabinet and brewed the coffee 2x's and then placed the spent coffee grounds in a unused coffee filter and made a tea bag sort off thing and let the grounds seep in the nutural pH h2o tested the pH.(because unspent coffee grounds are a little acidic. I wanted to make sure what I read "run-off of spent coffee grounds should be nutural ). The pH was a little high 6.7 so I added 3 drops of organic apple cider vinegar in and it brought it to 6.49 (figured that was close enough to 6.5).
Now after my light turns on at 5:30pm I'll add a bit to the top of my pot and kind of mix it up gently as to not disturb roots.
Every day I'll take pictures and notes and share them so we all can see this experience.
So I have been reading a bunch about all aspects of veg.(Problem is who do I listen to?) One thing that interests me is Spent coffee grounds for fertilizer. I do see some not so good things and more good things. So here's the deal I want to see for myself if spent coffee grounds during Veg helps or not.
So I have a 18 day old unknown bag seed from popping out of soil that has had some stress. I topped it and planted it in the matter of hrs. (I'm new so I'm gonna make mistakes)
I'm gonna use this baby for the expierment.
So I took about 3/4th cup of coffee grounds from my cabinet and brewed the coffee 2x's and then placed the spent coffee grounds in a unused coffee filter and made a tea bag sort off thing and let the grounds seep in the nutural pH h2o tested the pH.(because unspent coffee grounds are a little acidic. I wanted to make sure what I read "run-off of spent coffee grounds should be nutural ). The pH was a little high 6.7 so I added 3 drops of organic apple cider vinegar in and it brought it to 6.49 (figured that was close enough to 6.5).
Now after my light turns on at 5:30pm I'll add a bit to the top of my pot and kind of mix it up gently as to not disturb roots.
Every day I'll take pictures and notes and share them so we all can see this experience.