I might try a rosemary and alfalfa tea spray for pm alfalfa has high calcium content as suggested by coots as pm defense
Yes I understand it needs to be used in small amounts. I have been using it as a supplement from truenutrition.com it is organic and in a fine powder which increases availability it seems
Just pulled up a chair, and just joined the site too. I am trying to learn a good no till mix and i think i can learn alot from you aphotic. May i ask what you have around the base of your seedlings in the beg of the thread? I am going back to page one to read the thread btw. I look forward to talking more.
that od lady is looking lovely!
Be careful with the alfalfa, it can burn your plants just like an ordinary fertilizer.
hhmm...good aspektit's better to find non-grow related companies to buy your products, they will be a million times cheaper.
Those rockdustlocal guys are almost literally in my backyard so i wanted your insight. Bear in mind i use a K.I.S.S methodology to my gardening and only try to utilize what my soils need to be all they can be. I prefer fungally dom composts but use both, California hummus for example, I use aact teas to actively keep my soil microbes eating like arapaima in the amazon man! then i try to focus on adding as many trace minerals as possible including sea minerals as well. Using them in foliars as well as drench's. Your exp. is something i glean things from so thankyou.
If you're growing canabis you're going to want a bacteria dominated soil/compost. Fungal dominated is best for trees and shrubs, rebuilding a forest. Same thing goes for your ACT, you want to brew a bacteria rich brew, not fungal. A forest grows on a dead forest, which is fungal, herbaceous plants grow on dead herbaceous plants, which is bacterial. The reason cutting down the Amazonian rain forest for farm land is so destructive, is that you're trying to grow herbaceous plants in a fungal soil, it makes shitty farm land, and after your crops use up what's in the soil the lands dead and you have to clear more forest, it's incredibly difficult to transition land from one to the other, you just end up losing both.
I can get you going in the right direction, but I also suggest you read through the older no till threads, and check out headys current thread, lots of great info, and check out microbe organics if you haven't yet! I can honestly say that most of what I know and practice in the cannabis garden, I learned from people on this site, and I'm still learning new things every day!
I'm just a student, and this site is full of masters.
Hope this helps
Here's a question, if you use silica sand, granite fines, and DE, what's the point in buying a silica product additive? Yet I see so many using these products and buying a silica additive, I can't remember the names of the products, but they sell like hot cakes.
The reason cutting down the Amazonian rain forest for farm land is so destructive, is that you're trying to grow herbaceous plants in a fungal soil, it makes shitty farm land, and after your crops use up what's in the soil the lands dead and you have to clear more forest, it's incredibly difficult to transition land from one to the other, you just end up losing both.