Organic Feeding 101.

Thanks! I do have a lot to learn and appreciate your input. I' m going to checkout the website now.

Interesting thread to say the least.

do you recommend this for indoor grows? just wondering..i have had a lot of people trying to tell me indoor organic can be hard..but i believe! my babys are bout a foot and a half tall and so far so good. I'm using 707 organic soil and have fed with earth juice so far..thinkin bout starting to incorporate some horse manure tea..any insight is much appreciated thanx!

Hello Grow Masters,
white fuzz good on soil surface ? Yes ?
i have added 1 teaspoon blackstrap molasses to a batch of Advanced nutrients Sensi Bloom and added a aquarium hose bubbler,
for 24 hours, the tea wound up with stringy lumps floating in it, so I added it to the plant soil, next day there's white fuzzy growth.
what ya'll think ?

Thebulldog said:

Hello Grow Masters,
white fuzz good on soil surface ? Yes ?
i have added 1 teaspoon blackstrap molasses to a batch of Advanced nutrients Sensi Bloom and added a aquarium hose bubbler,
for 24 hours, the tea wound up with stringy lumps floating in it, so I added it to the plant soil, next day there's white fuzzy growth.
what ya'll think ?

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Hhmmmmmm personally I think ............. Hmmmmmmmmm

That white fuzzy growth is microbes working

I'm used to killing on sight, anything that even might look like white fuzzy growth.

@Thebulldog In my experience with brewing guano teas and such I have never gotten any stringy crap in the container. And only time I have ever gotten white fuzzy stuff on the soil it was mildew/mold. Not good imo.

almost have all these teas made.
so far my ladies love them. I mean my soil, but ya know my ladies love the juices lol
i throw in a little coconut water in with the waterings, mmmmm
organics has been the best thing to enter my life

and yes you can do organics indoors
gotta be able to with stand the smell.
just proper ventalation

I use a cup composted cow manure and worm castings in paint strainers in a 2 1/2 gallon bucket, and had great success in 3 gallon pots. Now have 5 gallon paint buckets for pots and brewing tea. Using promix with myco, and mix tea 4water to 1 tea. And add humic and fumic acid, blackstrap molasses, ocean harvest kelp liquid,to the tea mix. Tea mix 3 times a week, water alternative days 3 times a week. And reuse the soil. Use LED's with 150 watt HPS to add UVB. Going to replace the HPS with fluorescent UVB light. At flowering going to add high K bat guano, and very very small amount of wood ash which is 50 rating P. The wood ash has to be from NON pressure treated wood. And very little of ash goes a very long way. Had buds everywhere on a Pineapple Express clone. But again, very little wood ash, and as a top dressing. Mixing the ash with water, you get lye, and not good for the ladies, use as top dressing. Test run worked very well. Will post picture of new grow. If you use an air stone and air pump for your teas, no bad odor.

I just extracted some compost tea from the collection tray of my worm bin.

Before I diluted it with filtered water it's pH was in the 5s now it's in the 6s and I have about twice as much.

But the EC, and I am glad I checked it before pouring some over four girls in flower, is 3.2?

Isn't this way to high?

Could I just furthur dilute the compost tea with more filtered water till I get a good EC? And if so what would that EC? Organic Soil. Thanks

wow, im thirsty for banana, thistle, orange, lemon, fish,ahhhaaa coffee, worm, gypsum, kumquat, garlic tea. with a side of oxygen ; GOT TEA??? oh yea any body got any ice!!!

daysbetween420 said:

do you recommend this for indoor grows? just wondering..i have had a lot of people trying to tell me indoor organic can be hard..but i believe! my babys are bout a foot and a half tall and so far so good. I'm using 707 organic soil and have fed with earth juice so far..thinkin bout starting to incorporate some horse manure tea..any insight is much appreciated thanx!

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Stay with the Compost/EWC Teas.

Anybody possibly use any of this ? Link

I am actually looking for fish hydrolysate though. thank you

keysareme said:

Stay with the Compost/EWC Teas.

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I know exactly where you need to go immediately. I use kelp4less.com for most of my organic needs. you can buy the fish hydrolysate (sp?). but, I would recommend other products than the fish. you are paying for the shipping of mostly water $$ take some time to look at the fish hydro.. and maybe use one of the starter packs. I do not know what you need or your style is but, after I found this site on ebay or amazon, can't remember. I now use most of my products from him. the "organic mechanic". use the code: GREENTHUMB in all caps for a 10% discount. I learned that yesterday when I talked to one of the staff. now I use the citric acid for the ph down . it is the same thing as ph down on his web site except much less $$$ earnesto told me that on the phone= marketing term. I use the aminos from him now instead of the aminos from nectar for the gods (Athena's Aminas) that I was wasting $$$. "B" vitamins there as well. bloom khaos from NFTGods, the fulvic acid(fuc@ing great product/ helps get ph. down also) almost 90 bucks at monstergardens.com where I also shop, hydrogalaxy.com where I spent $124.00 last night.(meter) is the same thing as Hades down from NFTGods.On and on. just saves a ton of cash and get the results I want. I wish I had found this site long ago. free shipping. usps. gets there quickly. no labels bro! I got a cal. defec. and I got cal. nitrate. not organic but I have to fix my problem quickly; I have replaced most of plant food with them and now do not pay for shipping H2O around.
I do not know what the ph. up is . I use baking soda to fix that shit.
Zeus Juice= kelp + humic acid. mine is better. with fulvic acid
make your own bloom khaos with B vitamins.
let me know if you need some help. I need help still and always will.
randall henderson
hope that helps bro.

keysareme said:

Stay with the Compost/EWC Teas.

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I for got to add a few other places I get products that Ed Rosenthal uses in one of his books he edited. groworganic.com for the liquid fish food with humic acid. I have that and the kelp with humic acid. they use "Bull kelp". read about that on their site. which is awesome. I have that; and ascophyllum nodosum. It is the kelp that most people use.(maxicrop) got both. and many more things . one of the best and largest in the united states. Johnny's seed. and farmtek. go to peaceful valley farms in grass valley if you live close as I use to to live in Redding ca. by lake Shasta. hope that helps dood

dante76 said:

i used this as an amendment to my base soil (Super Cools Super Soil Recipe) and 1/2 strength guano tea (guano soaking in water for 2 days).

Results were great! Right now most of my buds are curing but from some i've tested out tasted/smoked very smooth and i didn't have to flush either...another benefit to growing organic.

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I can imagine friend, I have heard lots of good things about guano tea and medicinal cannabis or recreational too

Alfalfa tea

Greetings growers, i would like to ask what would you suggest is a good place to let my soil cook for a month ? I have a attic thats usually warm that i could fit the pots into or a shed but its still pretty cold in the shed, could i just put the pots in my grow room with lids over keeping a small hole open & vegging my seedlings on top of them ?

Im planning on cooking for a month so im worried that it wont really get anywhere outside with the low temps. Peace & Respect : )

greennewfie said:

yeah you have to let the mirobes (bacteria and fungi) break down the organic material into nutriants takes a year or so too break down!!

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WyoGrow said:

If you just let it sit and do it's thing on it's own it can take a year. I finish compost from beginning to end in a tumbler in 6-8 weeks. You can speed up the process in a pile by turning it every week or two. Those little critters need oxygen to do their thang..... I can compost down lawn clippings in a little over a month by turning twice a week and keeping it damp and covered with a tarp.

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True! with heavy bio-tivity, some layering, good sun, some moisture, aeration, and some kind of heat absorbant, you can make da mean custom humus in as little as 6 weeks, but lacking these, you are looking at a good few months, mon!