Are there any Organics that don't smell like DEATH???

Lucius Vorenus

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I gave organics a try about a year ago and was thinking about giving it another chance, in Coco.

I used General Organics. That was absolutely horrible.


Are there any 1 part Organics out there that aren't like Motor oil and nasty as hell?
 

Slipon

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I usea Plagron ... boath ther Organic All mix (organic soil with peetmoss, perlit and wormcasting)

and ther coco (pure and clean)

I mix em 70/30%

and add the nutriens I need in ther .. blood and bone meal .. kelp and Mearl .. and some bat guano ..

look around .. lots of diffrent and good organic soil mix recipes on the net ...
 

Lucius Vorenus

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I usea Plagron ... boath ther Organic All mix (organic soil with peetmoss, perlit and wormcasting)

and ther coco (pure and clean)

I mix em 70/30%

and add the nutriens I need in ther .. blood and bone meal .. kelp and Mearl .. and some bat guano ..

look around .. lots of diffrent and good organic soil mixes recipes on the net ...
Im just looking for a 1 part Organic that can be used in Coco
 

Slipon

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Plagron ALL mix is nice .. light .. and have boath wormcasting (10% I belive) and perlit (20-30% I belive) I like it .. heard good things about ther bat mix aswell .. try to google it ..
 

1337hacker

Active Member
I gave organics a try about a year ago and was thinking about giving it another chance, in Coco.

I used General Organics. That was absolutely horrible.


Are there any 1 part Organics out there that aren't like Motor oil and nasty as hell?
Organics are mainly animal poop hence the smell.

Botanicare products, however, smell very good.. they use some sort of mint oil or something to give it a fresh smell. It says organic compost on the front of the botanicare bottles, so I believe they are all organic.
 

thebeej72

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not true on being organic with the botanicare (it does smell like mint tho).... some organic nutes are based on animal poopies...but the stuff im using is all veganic and based on soy proteins and sea kelp. Smells kinda earthy but nothing like fish emulsion
 

blueJ

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worm casting tea smells sweet (add alfalfa for extra nute boost, smells sweet too) my amended organic soilless mix with no animal poo smells heavenly.

It sounds like you are looking for a synthetic solution in an organic form (pure coco, one bottled nute) and you might be hard pressed to find that and have excellent results at the same time...

botanicare grows good plants, and might be the closest thing to what you're lookin' for
 

Kalyx

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You started with the strongest smelling option. GO is good stuff, keep in mind your plants have no nose. If you want 100% organic botanicare isnt, you should try earth juice or roots organics. Please be aware that we feed the soil and it feeds our plants, microbes do not have noses either!
 

Nullis

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The General Organics products are all "veganic" as well. Some of the products smell kind of sharp and like vitamins. I also use Earth Juice (original), the Bloom doesn't smell as strong as the Grow and the Catalyst just smells sort of sweet.
Botanicare Pure Blend Pro doesn't smell very bad as I remember... one part Grow and one part Bloom.

But if you're using liquid organic products, yes many of them are going to have some kind of odor. Maybe some of us just don't mind or get used to it.

You can do organics and not really have to use any kind of liquid products, though. You could load your mix up with dry organic nutrients (such as widely available Espoma -Tone products), guano and kelp meal; then use water only or water with some blackstrap molasses. This works for soil\soil-less mixes and would probably work for coco coir as well. Coir just doesn't have much in the way of nutrients or microbes by itself. You could mix some dolomite lime into it and then pick a general purpose dry organic plant food like Espoma Bio-Tone, Plant-Tone, Garden-Tone or Tomato-Tone and then supplement that with an appropriate kind of guano and the kelp meal.
For example, make a base mix with the coir, a tablespoon of dolomite per gallon, a tablespoon and a half of Bio-Tone per gallon, a tablespoon of kelp meal per gallon (optionally) and half a tbsp of high N guano per gallon. When you go to transplant with a mix such as that you'd want to fill your container partially (say it's a 1 gal. container), throw down a several inches of mix and then add more nutrients to the floor of the container, like another tablespoon of Bio-Tone, a teaspoon or two of high-N or Peruvian Seabird guano, swirl that together roughly and then put down some more base mix with another teaspoon of kelp meal, and then in goes your plant. The idea is that most of the nutrients the plant is going to need are in the container and the roots are going to grow slowly into the more nutritive zone, all you'd have to do is water. You'd do pretty much the same thing when you go to transplant before bloom, except you cut back on the kelp and use a high-P guano.
 

Rising Moon

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My home made Compost/worm casting/herbal aerated teas smell incredible!

And they are much less expensive to make than buying bottles of "organic" fertilizers...
 

growone

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alfalfa tea, if not taken too far, doesn't smell too strong, kind of like spinach to my nose, just don't brew too long
 
I have heard advanced iguana juice is a cleaner, less stinky feed. Will be grabbin some soon to find out, but organics just smell, especially when you go overkill with the nutes.
 

thebeej72

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I have heard advanced iguana juice is a cleaner, less stinky feed. Will be grabbin some soon to find out, but organics just smell, especially when you go overkill with the nutes.
Im telling ya to go with the Grower's Secret...Ive been using it and no smell great yields and veganic.
 

Kalyx

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grandaddydank
I have heard advanced iguana juice is a cleaner, less stinky feed. Will be grabbin some soon to find out, but organics just smell, especially when you go overkill with the nutes.​
I tried ANs iguana juice for my first soil run ever about 2007. It is based on fish hydrolysate so it reeked pretty strong, even after application. Many have posted here that it is not 100% organic as well. They have one omri product so if its not listed then it probably couldn't be = not 100% organic.
 

1337hacker

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I tried ANs iguana juice for my first soil run ever about 2007. It is based on fish hydrolysate so it reeked pretty strong, even after application. Many have posted here that it is not 100% organic as well. They have one omri product so if its not listed then it probably couldn't be = not 100% organic.
Lol finished product has undertones of fish /alfalfa to me took me a while to put my finger on it
 

greennewfie

Active Member
use molasses it keeps bad smells down in teas!!
kelp meal or liquid kelp(seaweed), banana tea, bone meal, blood meal.. this is my line up what i use!!
my soil already has composted cow manure added with black earth top soil and peat moss
 
I tried ANs iguana juice for my first soil run ever about 2007. It is based on fish hydrolysate so it reeked pretty strong, even after application. Many have posted here that it is not 100% organic as well. They have one omri product so if its not listed then it probably couldn't be = not 100% organic.
yea advanced makes that claim alot, but I dont see many omri tags on their products
 

doogleef

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In my experience you are better off to either go all out organic in dirt and use something like supersoil that is just add water, or go chem. It's just a means to an end. All the organic hydro stuff is way overpriced and either smells like a GNC shop or like fish emulsion. Using an inert medium; I would break out the salts and be done with it.

Either way works fine. The plants can't read that pretty bottle and they don't care where their ionic nutrition is sourced from.
 
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