I use a few bottled nutrients but only because some products just can't be mimicked. I use hygrozyme and canna bio boost. Regardless of how much I do and how many teas I make, you will never achieve the results I do without using those two products. Be ignorant if you want but I have tested all these different styles for a couple years now and each have their own benefits for sure, but overall trichrome production as well as flavor, really stands out by just using bio boost(fermented sugar cane)
dude...hate to break it to you but you have been brainwashed to death by the hydro store employees and marketing department at High Times magazine...why would you pay $100 for 1/2 gallon of fermented sugar cane??? LOL. Mix yourself a FPE with dandelion, comfrey, horsetail, etc. and then add molasses after a few days. boom, bio-boost for 1/100th the price - plus you get all of the enzymes etc that you wouldn't get from bio-boost (sitting in a bottle for months is not conducive to enzyme health)
hygrozyme can easily be mimicked with a sprouted seed enzyme tea.
zyme is the key here...enzymes are much easier to get from fresh plants than from something out of a bottle (not to mention the $$$). if you need something out of a bottle, a dilution of 1:15 young coconut water and h20 will give you better results than you have ever seen - i guarantee it. doubt me? try it out...
Do a side by side and compare - you'll see. Every product on the market can be mimicked at home...despite what you might think. Canna does not posses any "secret" knowledge that we don't have access too...they just convince you they do and then put an awesome fancy label and high price tag on their products (cause if its expensive, its got to be good right?).
On the subject of TLO vs. "living soil"...there are most definitely a few fundamental differences that you aren't grasping.
1. TLO advocates the use of bottled products such as cal/mg, etc. "living soil" does not support this AT ALL.
2. TLO encourages the use of "spikes and layers" - something that is inherently ridiculous. "living soil" utilizes a thoroughly mixed medium
3. TLO is trying to SELL YOU SOMETHING - "living soil" is about bonding with your soil, loving it, and understanding it in order to support your plants
4. TLO advocates the use of bagged products like "gardner and bloome" EWC, bagged potting soils, etc. "living soil" is about constructing your own soil from scratch so that you know exactly what goes into your product. With "living soil" one spends much more time sourcing their ingredients because they realize that high quality ingredients make a high quality end product. Foraging for local plants/leaf litter and using these in the soil/teas is something that is not advocated in TLO (probably because they won't be seeing any $$$ from it...)
5. TLO still follows the modern cannabis paradigm of "feed the plant" whereas "living soil" follows the old proverb "feed the soil, not the plant".
6. TLO does not suggest the use of a cover crop/companion plants, whereas "living soil" is all about synergy within the rhizosphere
7. TLO considers many insects to be pests, whereas "living soil" welcomes things like soil mites, springtails, rove beetles, etc.
TLO is the lazy mans version of "living soil"...I could keep going forever on this if you really want...just give it up dude. TLO is a marketing situation, "living soil" is horticulture. I will agree that in the spectrum of cannabis growing they are very close (both on the far end of organic practices) but they are NOT THE SAME THING. ever notice that there isn't anyone selling "living soil" books, etc. in the cannabis market? it's cause there is NO MONEY TO BE MADE from this...the folks selling stuff to hydro stores are raking in the cash from all of the brainwashed growers out there. these products are not sold to real horticulturists - they know better than to buy the snake oil. Look through the Rev's book and see how many subtle ads there are...talk about backend revenue. The simple fact that he is selling something should immediately raise red flags (even if it is just a "style" of growing - hell,
veganics is a "style" of growing and we all know how that goes..). Stop pretending that you know everything and we are being "ignorant", do some reading, and throw away those bottles of trash. Listen to Rising Moon, he knows what he is talking about. Keep being a dick and we will stop giving you help....lol.
EDIT: rising moon, LOL - "above and beyond" totally means he doesn't understand and doesn't want to spend the time to understand...but we're the ones who are "ignorant" in his words...
he'll take the time, do the reading, and get there one day. it'll just take a few failed crops from hygrozyme and bio boost haha