after being persuaded by these boards to move away from bottled nutes and use ACT i have achieved some excellent results. the impression i took away from here was: amend my soil to supply the nutes, bone meal, kelp meal etc. and water with ACT to provide the microbial activity that will make the nutes available.
i got the impression from some posts on here that once you start using ACT then you forget about NPK.
2 years down the line i now believe that if you want to achieve maximum yield amending soil from the beginning is not enough. so i have been feeding seabird guano and extra fish hyrdolysate and liquid kelp to supplement the NPK and raise the nute levels. i am also not convinced that bone meal and volanic rock dust are available after a 2 month period even with ' pre cooking'.
would like to hear other opinions out there?
i got the impression from some posts on here that once you start using ACT then you forget about NPK.
2 years down the line i now believe that if you want to achieve maximum yield amending soil from the beginning is not enough. so i have been feeding seabird guano and extra fish hyrdolysate and liquid kelp to supplement the NPK and raise the nute levels. i am also not convinced that bone meal and volanic rock dust are available after a 2 month period even with ' pre cooking'.
would like to hear other opinions out there?