vitalsine
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So I have been growing in an inert medium, 60% ProMix, 20% CoCo, 20% Perlite for the past 6 weeks. I am new to all of this and didn't realize that because my soil wasn't populated with bacteria, that I was actually reducing the effectiveness of my FOOP organic nutrients. These nutrients become activated in the soil, I am assuming when the bacteria eat/digest/poop out the food that they get from the FOOP (or however that works lol).
Anyway, I put a dusting of worm casting and grokashi as a top dressing maybe 2 weeks ago, and I think I noticed some positive effects. I also just flipped to flower a week or so ago, so maybe I was just noticing the stretch... regardless the ladies looked great and I saw lots of new growth since then.
Which brings me to tonight, time to water/feed the ladies... so I had this bright idea that I would innoculate the soil further. I mixed up some of my Grean Bicycles Ocean Bounty with a bit more worm castings and grokashi. In total, I mixed 6 cups, 3 cups of Ocean Bounty, 2 cups of worm castings, and 1 cup of grokashi. I dusted each of the 6 plants with exactly one cup of the mixture and raked in with my fingertips. I am now second-guessing this bright idea, and wondering if I am going to burn my plants... I have 5-6 gallons of nutrient mix aerating now, containing 180ml of FOOP Bloom 1 and Bloom 2, as well as a small amount of Fish Shit! and liquid seaweed. Should I water the plants with the nutrient solution that I have aerating, with the top dressing, or should I let the solution aerate for a couple of days and just water the top dressing in with pH 6.5 RO water? If I was to just water it, I would do a light watering so that I can hit them with the FOOP in a couple of days, otherwise, the biological activity will die down and it will spoil.
My logic was this... the top dressing is all organic compounds. Ocean Bounty is 3-9-1 and the ingredients are bat guano, cotton seed meal, fish bone meal, alfalfa meal, kelp meal, neem seed meal, crustacean meal, fish meal, rock phosphate, oyster shell flour, rock dust, langbeinite, and greensand. I am under the impression that the top dressing will release the nutrients slowly, and also cause beneficial bacteria to show up in my soil, inoculating it and allowing my FOOP to perform better. I know that they take time to work, which is what lead me to believe this was going to be ok. Otherwise my FOOP just runs off and some of the nutrients and things are wasted because there is no microbes/bacteria to consume it.
I figure I should mention what's in the nutrients as well...
Can someone tell me if I am wrong? or if it might be a good idea? I don't know what lead me to believe I knew what I was doing, I just felt like a light bulb lit up and now I am second-guessing myself... lol. Just don't want to hurt my ladies. I will scoop the top dressing off if I have to.
Anyway, I put a dusting of worm casting and grokashi as a top dressing maybe 2 weeks ago, and I think I noticed some positive effects. I also just flipped to flower a week or so ago, so maybe I was just noticing the stretch... regardless the ladies looked great and I saw lots of new growth since then.
Which brings me to tonight, time to water/feed the ladies... so I had this bright idea that I would innoculate the soil further. I mixed up some of my Grean Bicycles Ocean Bounty with a bit more worm castings and grokashi. In total, I mixed 6 cups, 3 cups of Ocean Bounty, 2 cups of worm castings, and 1 cup of grokashi. I dusted each of the 6 plants with exactly one cup of the mixture and raked in with my fingertips. I am now second-guessing this bright idea, and wondering if I am going to burn my plants... I have 5-6 gallons of nutrient mix aerating now, containing 180ml of FOOP Bloom 1 and Bloom 2, as well as a small amount of Fish Shit! and liquid seaweed. Should I water the plants with the nutrient solution that I have aerating, with the top dressing, or should I let the solution aerate for a couple of days and just water the top dressing in with pH 6.5 RO water? If I was to just water it, I would do a light watering so that I can hit them with the FOOP in a couple of days, otherwise, the biological activity will die down and it will spoil.
My logic was this... the top dressing is all organic compounds. Ocean Bounty is 3-9-1 and the ingredients are bat guano, cotton seed meal, fish bone meal, alfalfa meal, kelp meal, neem seed meal, crustacean meal, fish meal, rock phosphate, oyster shell flour, rock dust, langbeinite, and greensand. I am under the impression that the top dressing will release the nutrients slowly, and also cause beneficial bacteria to show up in my soil, inoculating it and allowing my FOOP to perform better. I know that they take time to work, which is what lead me to believe this was going to be ok. Otherwise my FOOP just runs off and some of the nutrients and things are wasted because there is no microbes/bacteria to consume it.
I figure I should mention what's in the nutrients as well...
Can someone tell me if I am wrong? or if it might be a good idea? I don't know what lead me to believe I knew what I was doing, I just felt like a light bulb lit up and now I am second-guessing myself... lol. Just don't want to hurt my ladies. I will scoop the top dressing off if I have to.
