I would love a 17 bullet point list clearly defining what each nutrient/mineral does regarding the various pathways in the plant (and half a dozen most common sources of these nutes.) Thats the sort of thing I expected when I came on the internet to straighten these things out, after moving into an urban area where there is no greenery or humus . Moving indoors has been a nightmare. These forums are pretty backwards and the whole thing became a joke in my mind after seeing the kind of crap they grow in the city, where hydro stores are a thing. You'll find a list of every possible input on earth with a static nutritional value assigned to each. Potheads don't think like that! And you'll find a lot of argument equivalent to "Monster is a better energy drink than Redbull because I like the logo and got a free sample from a rep at a skateboard competition"
My experience has been outdoor hillbilly style, non growstore/forum influenced, eyeballing everything and going by instinct picking quality humus and ferments/manures. Shit rolls down hill, so mountain gullies and lake coves is where most my inputs came from. Cow patties, leaf mold and buckwheat hulls for aeration. I never differentiated much between compost manure and ferments, its the texture that matters. Its all about the microbes otherwise.
The one thing I know for sure is lactic acid bacteria makes things work without you needing too much of a clue. More soil, more bacteria: less nute input. Soil analysis didn't exist for thousands of years. Growers like MustangStudFarm, willing to post soil analysis, should be hot topic on the forums but it seems to shut everyone up. E-growing hath becometh religious dogma and senseless superstitious tradition, vane repetition to appease the manmade idols.
Microbes are definitely more important than trying to get a perfect balanced nute profile. Who even knows what a perfect balance is? The bottled products sure don't have it. Growers need to realize what's generic to plant science and what's specific to organic Cannabis where secondary metabolites are the focus, not plant fiber. Thats where I get my disdain for lab science. I know for a fact that "what you are is what you eat" applies to phenotypic expression of plants like Cannabis. Fermented grapes produce a different flavor than fermented herbs,etc. Garlic farmers have known for a long time that different varieties come from different farms due to the soil and the microbe population that soil attracts, the microbes the surrounding plants attract. The gases those plants put off.. It was 2017 before I heard a Cannabis grower suggest the same. I dont understand this lack of open brainstorming in the online grow "community". The only time I put slaughterhouse scraps in my soil the cats dug it up. I convinced myself you dont need all that extra crap. Pretty sure bones and shells are loaded with phosphorus. For micro nutes I've been using b stock knockoff brand minerals from the ConcenTrace factory. A little cheaper but still feeling like a sucker buying bottled product (since I can't find an explanation on a better way to replenish the soil without sodium overload.)
Why do I use micro nutes? Who the hell knows. Won't find an answer on RIU. The microbes respond well to them that's all I know. Which helps solidify my lunatic theory that plants grow at the will of microbes, to do their bidding, to exude their delicious carbs and make the smells they use to communicate (terpene is the oldest language in the universe). Plants are just carb factories built by microbes in my mind. I once saw a Ted talk say something similar about animal life, that microbes make us what we are. And it makes sense. A sweaty armpit doesn't smell like a sweaty fore head under a headband, yet lab science wants to claim its the same skin bacteria eating the same exudates. Its obviously not,or your forehead would smell like garlic onion funk. Different exudates, different bacteria for different parts of the factory.
