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This was touched on briefly in this thread: http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=25611
Here's a friend's explanation of why he doesn't mix his fertilizers globally in his soil mix but instead creates substrate layers and "hot spots."
Thought it might spark a little discussion.
Mixing your ammendments "globally" and what I mean by that is throughout, your mix, put's your plants in a very simple 2 dimentional situation; member the roots are alive, evolved, etc.... If you "smother" them with a two dimentional environment (globally mixing all your nutes) you FORCE them away from doing what they do best, find and absorb foodz! Find, being a key word
Ya know how mother earth is a mass of layers, "build" each container, layer it, put spots of stuff in amounts perhaps tripling what good sense would tell you is good. I shit you not amigo.
Think like the plant, when it finds a super hot N source what does she do? She does what she is evolved to do, her roots adapt at THAT LOCATION to duplicate root cells SPECIFIACLLY desingned to feast on such a rich find. Localize your major nutes within zones, rule of thumb is the longer release x power of release = lower in the container.
I top dress my flowering plants prolly 2 - 3 times after 12/12 with a mixture of 50% bat guano (High P) and 50% earthworm castings cut in half with fine grade vermiculite. Deadly deadly wicked trick homeskillet
So don't just read this shit fingster, from me to you man, get this. Gotta think "Chaos" man
- REv
Here's a friend's explanation of why he doesn't mix his fertilizers globally in his soil mix but instead creates substrate layers and "hot spots."
Thought it might spark a little discussion.
Mixing your ammendments "globally" and what I mean by that is throughout, your mix, put's your plants in a very simple 2 dimentional situation; member the roots are alive, evolved, etc.... If you "smother" them with a two dimentional environment (globally mixing all your nutes) you FORCE them away from doing what they do best, find and absorb foodz! Find, being a key word
Ya know how mother earth is a mass of layers, "build" each container, layer it, put spots of stuff in amounts perhaps tripling what good sense would tell you is good. I shit you not amigo.
Think like the plant, when it finds a super hot N source what does she do? She does what she is evolved to do, her roots adapt at THAT LOCATION to duplicate root cells SPECIFIACLLY desingned to feast on such a rich find. Localize your major nutes within zones, rule of thumb is the longer release x power of release = lower in the container.
I top dress my flowering plants prolly 2 - 3 times after 12/12 with a mixture of 50% bat guano (High P) and 50% earthworm castings cut in half with fine grade vermiculite. Deadly deadly wicked trick homeskillet
So don't just read this shit fingster, from me to you man, get this. Gotta think "Chaos" man
- REv