[nachash]

I just heard about this & never hearing it before I'm asking;

The water off your cooked rice, poured onto soil based rooting mix as a feed, good idea/bad idea/never heard of that one ?

Any illumination on this woud be helpful, thank you.

[Hippo]

Dont quote me on this but plants produce starch themselves, not sure if they can take it up through the roots anyway. This is the only reason i can think why u'd wanna do this. I really cant see anything beneficial from doing this, plus is might throw off the ph.
May i ask wat made u think of this?
Goodluck
Hippo

[JohnBudd]

I have never heard of it myself. I don't think plants need the starch so much. P-K and a dozen or so other micronutrients are needed, but starch is not one of them.
I am investigating using 100 gallon aquarium with fish/plants as continious organic feeding recirculating system. Mother Nature can be imitated to a point, but true organics rock!
Please let me know where/how you heard of this, sounds interesting.

[nachash]

I read this .........

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My great great uncle served in the navy and has lived all over the world and seen almost everything (not really thats impossible but hees seen quite a bit). I placed my 1st plant, which had been flowering for about 2 weeks, in his care while i went to an outer island for the weekend. When i came home....lo and behold my plant was thick-stemed, dark green leafed, and coated...literally smothered in white crystals. I asked him if he used fertilizers on it (i'm not into chem....i'm more of an organic grower myself) and he said he had just watered it every couple days. Later my great great aunt told me they became like that because he had used what she uses on her orchids to make them giant and very colorfull...RICE WATER.

*The Starchy water that comes from cleaning white calrose rice is like an energy drink for marijuana. I tried it again on 2 plants, feeding 1 the rice water and not the other. The starched one became thick and crystally while the other was just average. They had the same light, same grow space, trimed the same, ect....

*note: you should only do this during flowering and about every 3-5 days. The last Rice Watering should be a week-a week and a half before harvest.

until next sutra.....

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It sounded screwy to me & not something I'm like to try.

I just wodered what you more advanced & experienced had to say.

[Sinfuldreams]

Originally posted by JohnBudd

I am investigating using 100 gallon aquarium with fish/plants as continious organic feeding recirculating system. Mother Nature can be imitated to a point, but true organics rock!

John got any pics or other info you could pass our way on the Fish Tank a Recirculating System is something I've had a hankering to try.

Eventually I would like to get my shroom grow and Cannabis grow circulating air ect, between them. Might be more work than it's worth, just a stoners idea.
Yea know Fish/Shrooms/Cannabis in a controlled but connected system.

Rice water well Imagin the UNCLE BENs Stuff wont work as well cause it's cooked already. Hell if it works why not.
Keep us updated dudes.
Intresting stuff guys.
Sin

here is a blast from the past... any truth in rice water and healthier plants?

[DEATH BY SNUSNU]

Proly the starches are feeding the microherd and mycorhizae fungi in turn enriching the rhizosphere and the circle of life is complete. And or the rice water is adding unrefined lacto bacillus to the soil/medium. Sounds like folks were onto something 10 yrs ago...I'd cosign this or just complete the lacto capture.

[palmero]

Rice water (water which was used for cold washing aka cleaning rice, not containing any rice) is used
as the base to breed local bacilli.

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=96325

Have heared simailar statments refering to "potatoe water" whereas imho this is the cooled down version
of water in which potatoes have been cooked or as well
stored (peeled)some hours in cold water to prevent discoloration (my mother likes to do this).

Starch may be the accelerator for some local bio life, lookup the organic soil section, maybe pos or neg (just your enviroment).

So You are not feeding the plants but the local microherd that way.
Only for soil i think, better dont try in hydro.
Title should be Feeding soil rice water.
Salu2

[Able Mind]

that's a first for me...

[Delfin0690]

Growing my first baby and will feed it rice water. Anxious to see the result. Rice water for plants/gardening has been used by ages and grew up in a house where rice water and coffee ground was the food of the house and outside plants, back in the island is what we all use. So let's see how it works with my baby!