Anyone ever use Homemade nutrients?

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churchhaze

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TheFuture said:
Being this exact is even beyond my abilities. Wouldn't you have to weigh micromoles and such? I like to have more leeway. However I can see those who know how to use these being able to really tighten their margins and increase yields as they see fit. I am using organics chelated by Aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria.
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A milligram scale costs like 15 bucks. Making A+B stock solutions is very easy. (Easier than driving to the hydro store).

I just measure those ingredients into either A or B stock solution and use 10mL of A and 10mL of B per 1 gallon of final reservoir nutrient solution. It's not hard, but people with no experience or knowledge of this method come up with all sorts of reasons why this is too hard. (usually strawman)
 
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CC Dobbs

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Chef BrownSauce said:
I shoulda mentioned that I use a dwc system indoors. I do grow other veggies and fruits on the property. I compost all useable scraps to use on them. That takes forever to be useable. I Guess what I want to know is if there's any experience in somehow liquifying compost? Into useable dwc nutes?
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NO. Decomposition of complex ingredients takes life forms and time. A minute in the blender will not do that.
 
Vikerus Forrest

Vikerus Forrest

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VermiComposting is the true organic method for pros.

Get some red wrigglers, Make a worm box, have fresh and safe castings in a month. Also you get worm tea.
The reason I am so confident about this is a study I read about growing normal crops in both compost and vermicompost vs conventional ferts. The results are: Compost is about 1/4 as active as vermicompost and takes longer to become safe to use. Vermicompost had an effect of increasing yields by 20-30%? Conventional ferts actually did the worst... I have a feeling it's all about the "life" in your soil that makes it "rich".

I'll see if I can dig up the study for ya.

EDIT for Sources: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22705537
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.457.2951&rep=rep1&type=pdf
http://www.bioline.org.br/pdf?cj10065
 
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Dumme

Dumme

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Morbid Angel said:
LOL ok....

Im hydro now but i only switched to decrease the time between yields. Aint no problems growing organic in soil. In fact better buds, way less maintenance as far as nutrients go. Everything has a trade off.
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I'm also hydro. Way less complicated, here with Aqua-Hydro. All I've added so far is bone meal and nuked egg shells, FeEDDHA, and and some molasses.
 
since1991

since1991

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Cl@rksville said:
Good stuff, sounds like wise words but for indoors hydroponic growing is much easier than soil imo. Its cleaner, more control, less substrate, higher yields, smaller plants, quick amendments, cheaper outlay versus yield from a crop ime and bear in mind coco, drippers and a cheap pump is very cheap to set up in 10 or 15 litre pots. You don't need any fancy tools either just a good ph n a decent ec/ppm meter.
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This^^^^
 
since1991

since1991

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Canna brick coco coir drain to waste in slightly smaller pots than soil and peat mixes on a drip system with one part base nutes at 750ppm. But if your going to go soil (pia) indoors try and get the freshest worm castings you can get. Wiggle worm.is decent and will do but your local sources are MUCH MUCH better. Skip all of it and get some coco coir in 1 to 3 gallon pots and feed daily with a decent inexpensive bottled nutrient thats complete with everything. 750 ppm (1.5 ec) at 6.0 pH and gets some decent runoff. Always feed. Multiple feeds daily is best but hand feeding or water wand every other day or so depending on how developed the rootsystem works too (kind of like a peat promix type grow). The easiest most foolproof way to grow dope indoors. Mixing organic soils and shit like that is a pain. Feed the soil not the plant my ass. Iam growing buds not dirt. Outdoors its organic all the way.
 
Cl@rksville

Cl@rksville

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since1991 said:
Canna brick coco coir drain to waste in slightly smaller pots than soil and peat mixes on a drip system with one part base nutes at 750ppm. But if your going to go soil (pia) indoors try and get the freshest worm castings you can get. Wiggle worm.is decent and will do but your local sources are MUCH MUCH better. Skip all of it and get some coco coir in 1 to 3 gallon pots and feed daily with a decent inexpensive bottled nutrient thats complete with everything. 750 ppm (1.5 ec) at 6.0 pH and gets some decent runoff. Always feed. Multiple feeds daily is best but hand feeding or water wand every other day or so depending on how developed the rootsystem works too (kind of like a peat promix type grow). The easiest most foolproof way to grow dope indoors. Mixing organic soils and shit like that is a pain. Feed the soil not the plant my ass. Iam growing buds not dirt. Outdoors its organic all the way.
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Correct!
 
Chef BrownSauce

Chef BrownSauce

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Word. I'm not growing dirt either! Lol. I composted all this year. Big pile out back, and a tub of worms in the garage. The idea is to steep the worm castings and use that solution (tea) in the fill/drain tub.
 
Chef BrownSauce

Chef BrownSauce

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I just got my seedlings grown enough to put in the fill/drain today. It's on the General hydroponics brand nutes now. When I change out the solution I'll try the home remedy shit.
 
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