VERMONSTAH
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Hi all, new to the site. Dirt farmer for many years.....this thread is really nice. May i hang for awhile?
Hi all, new to the site. Dirt farmer for many years.....this thread is really nice. May i hang for awhile?
It could be.. The pinto bean compost soil test results:
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0248/9641/files/LocalBeanCompost.pdf?14105359850260505119
For a while, they actually got primarily water after tea feedings and topdress.. So I actually thought they were getting underfed.. But my ratios could be wrong. Might be swinging the soil in too different a direction unintentionally.. Will have more of what I gave them throughout the cycle soon. Gotta write it all down from whiteboard pictures. XD
I do have high quality castings. I believe EWC are a humus component, but others I have are Chicken Manure, Brilliant Black from DEM (powdered humus), and Ancient Forest from General Organics... These are humus components, right?
Currently locating a local worm place... I've wanted red wigglers since the beginning. :/
Yep! Humus by definition is comprised of stable humic substances which are unable to be broken down any further; it's the last stop basically.
If I wanted to "kick start" my container and make everything available as soon as possible, I'd probably whip up an EWC extract to boost biology. If I wanted to keep going, I'd top dress with something rich in enzymes like malted barley powder, then water it all in with a fulvic acid like FulPower to act as that catalyst's catalyst. The key is to get these elements into ionic form, and fulvic acid does just that.
Uncle Jim's is a rip off. Consistently under weight. There are some great worm fourms on the FB. I forget what they all recommend.
I have FulPower! Just was unsure how to balance the humic and fulvic components, what they were primarily for, what measurements, and when... I had a broad idea, but thought the humic was the organic matter and that fulvic was food for microbes, or a semi-steroid. Been using Corn and barley SSTs for enzymes.
Got a standard recipe for your EWC extract?
I also found one for a fungal dominant AACT, but was unsure when this would be necessary in either grow phase. Thoughts?