Dr. Who
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Word! That's why I gave him EWC and Steer/cow manure.....The two together make a very complete microbial spectrum...Wonderful fungal spread in a cow gut..so often that is the primary step skipped.
it's hard to get some to fully understand that without microbes and a LOT of them, your soil will be totally fine, full of nutrients, but without the nutrients being cycled, it won't work.
sadly many have tried organics and hated it, because they dumped a bunch of nutrients in a soil mix and pissed off their plant by not cycling the soil.
That poor planning mixed with the comparison of observing the growth rates of chelated-chem grows and it's no wonder why people give up and go back to chems.
the reason i preach BOTH a compost and a wormbin is because they tend to breed different types of microbes, in specific the wormbin is almost purely a bacterial microbe population, as opposed to a compost pile that is more fungal (made correctly)
cannabis does in fact prefer more bacterial microbes but it does appreciate fungal ones as well, so i mix them when re-amending the soil (or the initial mix)
So many like to want to use Horse, rabbit, and chicken.....Those are mainly a fert (NPK) value! Bio side is lacking and you can drw a direct line between those and higher nutritional values on certain levels.
Another nice reply! 1/4's are a safe area in a single cubic ft of OF. The 1/3 cup of a base nutrient has a little "push" to it and has no real problem with it - as long as (like grease said) he balances the values (N back up , with a slower release version). The Alfalfa gives a nice avg release at around a 3-1-2 value and Kelp at around 1-.2-2 helps boost the K with almost no P..not to mention the root growth/micro factor of kelp.....I have made so many mistakes, it's mind boggling. One of them was "enhancing" FFOF with a *big* scoop of both alfalfa & kelp meal. More is better, right?
My plants all died a slow death.
In hindsight, I'm pretty sure PH was WAY off & who knows where NPK ended up.
Not pretty.
Don't do that.
It was just a quick mix, designed to be easy for a person new to organics.