HUMBOLDT COUNTYS OWN NUTRIENTS

[Jimmy Verde]

Hey all been trying to figure this out for almost 3 days! Lol.... is humboldt county's own nutrients safe for the microbiology in my super soil? Was thinking about using g10 and sonic bloom but not If it'll harm my ROLS


Any info helps thanks in advance!


Jimmy green

 

[Richard Drysift]

There is almost zero info on these products at their website but I seriously doubt these are organic. If it doesn't say OMRI on the label it's likely unsafe for the microlife.
The g10 has fairly low NPK value & might actually be ok I don't know but sonic bloom is 0-51-34; that will surely piss off the mycorrhizae in a fungal dominated container. I know only because I've done it. According to the editor of Skunk magazine anything from a bottle with an NPK value higher than 5 does not belong in a living soil grow. Stick with the blood meal...blood makes the grass grow...that's what my drill sargeant used to say.

 

[Jimmy Verde]

There is almost zero info on these products at their website but I seriously doubt these are organic. If it doesn't say OMRI on the label it's likely unsafe for the microlife.
The g10 has fairly low NPK value & might actually be ok I don't know but sonic bloom is 0-51-34; that will surely piss off the mycorrhizae in a fungal dominated container. I know only because I've done it. According to the editor of Skunk magazine anything from a bottle with an NPK value higher than 5 does not belong in a living soil grow. Stick with the blood meal...blood makes the grass grow...that's what my drill sargeant used to say.

My blood meals 12-0-0 is that bad

 

[Richard Drysift]

The answer is no because your blood meal didn't come from a bottle. You can make homemade compost with super high numbers but it's not the actual values themselves that is the problem. It is the way in which the plant absorbs them that is the difference. Also happens to be the main difference between growing with nutes and growing in natural soil.
Allow me to explain: Dry amendments and compost need the symbiosis of microbial and fungal activity in order to become available to plants root systems. The microbes slowly break down organic materials and the fungi sort of metes out what the plant needs as it is needed. The fungi (myco) attached to the roots exchange cations with the plant so it can absorb the nutrients made available by microbial activity and then convert them to usable sugars through photosynthesis. It costs the plant one molecule of water (that's 2 hydrogen atoms and 1 oxygen atom btw) for every molecule of food it absorbs which is why plants need both water and proper ph (percentage of hydrogen) in order to feed.
Liquid nutrients (or their crystal concentrate counterparts) force feed the plant and give them everything all at once whether it's needed or not. Liquid nutes are already available; there's no need for microbes to break them down as it is ready for absorption by the roots directly. There I go rambling on and dropping mad science again but I hope that helps answer your Q.

 

[Richard Drysift]

Use this instead:
https://www.amazon.com/Neptunes-Harvest-FS118-Seaweed-Fertilizer/dp/B009HLVIY0