Thank you tons for posting the soil recipe above! Amazing info in there!
I have basically one question on my mind after reading, the approx. 5TBSP's of Kelp per gallon soil
I'm wondering the reasoning behind this from you, and what would happen if everything in the mix was the same, but literally 5times less Kelp meal in the mix? Not knocking the formula whatsoever, I just want to understand the reasoning for this amount. You know tons more than I do on this subject. Thanks man!
No disrespect my friend, thanks for your comments and questions, glad you dig the most part!
Actually the kelp amount I recommend is
only 67% of what the supplier itself recommends, or 2/3 the full amount.
-bought some of the fav amendments and built our yearly batch and then upon reading the labels, decided to a side by side by side by side, comparing one mentors recipe (
@DonPetro) to different percentages of kelp..
grew about 10 different strains, several months ahead, and had picked the fav 2 cuts, cloned the phenos we liked, then we were able to do a good side x side x side x side with both sets of phenos,. same up pot sched, same veg time, same recipes, but diff kelp amounts..
the amounts tested were .5%, 1%, 1.5%, & 2%, for the Pink Gravy
same for Sour Diesel, those four percentages.
Reasoning behind it..
with over 60 trace elements including the two big ones for potency, as well as THC and CBD production, Iron and Magnanese, both of which are well present in kelp, 120 cups per cu foot, just just under, figured a half cup per foot wasn't even a half percent of total volume, so it was
more than 6x less than what my supplier was suggesting.
So figured best do an experiment on the 4 safest amounts..
And shit man, the results were stunning.
Potency increased, smells increased, flavour increased, expression increased, expansion increased, speed of formation was excellent, seemed to be visibly more trichomes under the macros, as well as more terpenes to the touch, that is greasier plants that got greasy before they got sticky.
we added water-only the whole time by the way, plain RO, redistributing any runoff evenly after rediluting it. Mixed spectrum of 3500k 4000k 6400k and some far red / deep red uvb supplementation, every plant rotated quarter turn a day and moved over a spot to the left on drench day, every third day, for even spread.
Hope that helps clarify my positioning a bit!
Im just trying to give easy entry options for people who may want or should want to avoid commercial animal products, I dont condone animal products at all, tis just the quality of the 95% of large commercial farming practices, hormones and antibiotics and pusses and uric acids and any unnecessary feces and diseases are just some of the things I try keep out of the mix and flower / smoke and immune system- just if and where possible..
if and when we have our own chickens I wouldn't be so opposed to chicken manure for example.. its just good to have control over animal sources I think
@Johnei
Not that you wont grow killer dope in many many ways, I dont doubt that for a sec
