Elijah Cloud
Active Member
Hey there RIU, I just started my first batch of AACT with the following:
2/3 cup earthworm castings
2/3 cup peruvian seabird guano
2/3 cup indonesian bat guano
5 tbs unsulphured organic molasses
5 tbs maxicrop kelp extract powder
2 airstones, 1 aquarium pump, 5 gallon container filled with tap water allowed to dechlorinate
Okay, so that seems to be a good standard flowering base recipe. I plan to use it as a soil drench and a foliar feed simultaneously. When you apply your aact to the soil, do you pre-water? If so or not, please explain your opinions and knowledge. It's been my understanding that watering before adding nutes would be the standard safe practice. This might not be the case with such complete food, but I really would love your explanations as I've yet to see instruction for how to best approach this.
A little background -I've been very excited about this shit! I've learned a lot from RIU on organic method and want to start making my own soil/mixes and recycle everything into a healthy state. Some of my current plants went in a mix containing a lot of FFOF and it was a hot mix, and acidic!!! My plants started to suffer from the acidic bit with nutrient lockout. After much stress, I started feeding foliar with a recipe found here, with very good success. Now the plants which were suffering from major deficiencies are healthier. The aact is undoubtedly going to bring it into an even healthier soil state. In order to correct to soil state, I started amending by topdressing with ground organic eggshells and gypsum. I haven't tested the soil ph recently, but am considering trying to add some glacier rock dust to assist as well. Now, obviously hindsight is 20/20. I now understand how the soil should have been prepped. I want to get a crop, then reveg and make seeds for seed stock, then I can recycle this soil into something healthier for the future. I will test soil ph in a few weeks to see what amendment progress has occurred. Obviously I am having to take corrective measures vs preventive.
About the bunny poo! - I was thinking of aging the poo for about 3 months in paper bags. I don't have a compost site available at this time. Would this be enough time for the poo to mellow so I could incorporate it into an aact? I would intend on adding the spent poo to a vermipost afterwards. How can I best age and mellow the bunny poo outside of a compost pile outside? It's still winter, so I'd like to start collecting the bunny poo and prepping it inside if possible.
Looking forward to contributing my discoveries here! And am ecstatic about aact use and its benefits towards the earth.
2/3 cup earthworm castings
2/3 cup peruvian seabird guano
2/3 cup indonesian bat guano
5 tbs unsulphured organic molasses
5 tbs maxicrop kelp extract powder
2 airstones, 1 aquarium pump, 5 gallon container filled with tap water allowed to dechlorinate
Okay, so that seems to be a good standard flowering base recipe. I plan to use it as a soil drench and a foliar feed simultaneously. When you apply your aact to the soil, do you pre-water? If so or not, please explain your opinions and knowledge. It's been my understanding that watering before adding nutes would be the standard safe practice. This might not be the case with such complete food, but I really would love your explanations as I've yet to see instruction for how to best approach this.
A little background -I've been very excited about this shit! I've learned a lot from RIU on organic method and want to start making my own soil/mixes and recycle everything into a healthy state. Some of my current plants went in a mix containing a lot of FFOF and it was a hot mix, and acidic!!! My plants started to suffer from the acidic bit with nutrient lockout. After much stress, I started feeding foliar with a recipe found here, with very good success. Now the plants which were suffering from major deficiencies are healthier. The aact is undoubtedly going to bring it into an even healthier soil state. In order to correct to soil state, I started amending by topdressing with ground organic eggshells and gypsum. I haven't tested the soil ph recently, but am considering trying to add some glacier rock dust to assist as well. Now, obviously hindsight is 20/20. I now understand how the soil should have been prepped. I want to get a crop, then reveg and make seeds for seed stock, then I can recycle this soil into something healthier for the future. I will test soil ph in a few weeks to see what amendment progress has occurred. Obviously I am having to take corrective measures vs preventive.
About the bunny poo! - I was thinking of aging the poo for about 3 months in paper bags. I don't have a compost site available at this time. Would this be enough time for the poo to mellow so I could incorporate it into an aact? I would intend on adding the spent poo to a vermipost afterwards. How can I best age and mellow the bunny poo outside of a compost pile outside? It's still winter, so I'd like to start collecting the bunny poo and prepping it inside if possible.
Looking forward to contributing my discoveries here! And am ecstatic about aact use and its benefits towards the earth.