benniespliff
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dont even worry about npks when making your own soil and growing organically. npk ratios are something the hydro industry made up and all the hydro people bug out on."
Don't know where you get that idea but the science behind NPK ratios applies to ANY growing medium, soil first then hydro since hydroponics is relatively a newer method relatively. Farmers have been fertilizing their fields for thousands of years to improve harvests and in some cases they use crop rotation to balance nutrients naturally. Case in point, alfalfa roots build nodules of nitrogen from the soil. In preferred methodology the plant does best for a 5 year period before crops begin to decline. After 5 years some farmers will plow it under and over-plant in tomatoes because they feed on the nitrogen nodules and in a year or two will naturally re-balance the NPK ratios to minimize the necessity of dumping tons of fertilizers on the land."dont even worry about npks when making your own soil and growing organically. npk ratios are something the hydro industry made up and all the hydro people bug out on."
"dont even worry about npks when making your own soil and growing organically. npk ratios are something the hydro industry made up and all the hydro people bug out on."
I read the plant actually selects the correct exudate (sp?) when it needs
a specific nute and that attracts the correct organism to provide that.
If I understand that correctly it is pretty amazing.