That's what I thought, but just wanted to make sure. I didn't want to be wasting those amazing enzymes! This thread is the most amazing thing I've found on soil, and I've only read through 1/6 of it so far! Thanks so much to all you friendly peeps!!!
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Crab Pot
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Anywhere between five and ten percent of the soil mix.
Crab Pot
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How do you plan to apply the lactic acid?
Yeah you can use the soil immediately after you mix in the BioChar, just make sure it's charged.
JayY2015
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I am sorry I am a total noob what do you mean by make sure its charged ?
Crab Pot
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@JayY2015
BioChar will pull nutrients out of your soil unless it's pre charged. When growers put it in their soil mix without pre charging it their plants yellow prematurely.
There are many ways to charge BioChar. I usually bubble 1/2 cup kelp meal and 1/2 a cup of neem seed meal per five gallons water, for a day and then use the tea water to soak the BioChar in for several days. Another way would be to make a compost tea and charge it with that or some use Fish Hydroxylase.
Where did you get your BioChar?
BioChar will pull nutrients out of your soil unless it's pre charged. When growers put it in their soil mix without pre charging it their plants yellow prematurely.
There are many ways to charge BioChar. I usually bubble 1/2 cup kelp meal and 1/2 a cup of neem seed meal per five gallons water, for a day and then use the tea water to soak the BioChar in for several days. Another way would be to make a compost tea and charge it with that or some use Fish Hydroxylase.
Where did you get your BioChar?
JayY2015
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I added the bio char directly to my soil mix after the first post hahahah what do I do now ?
Green Texan Organic Farms crushed bio char
Crab Pot
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I would add extra nutrients. What's your recipe?
JayY2015
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5 gallon bucket Premier sphagnum peat moss
5 gallon bucket Worm Castings
5 gallon bucket perlite
1 cup kelp meal
1 cup neem meal
1 cup crusteacean meal
1 cup gypsum
1 cup oyster shell flour
6 cups of Rock dusts (basalt,glacial,granite)
I added some alfalfa meal a week or two after I mixed it.
5 gallon bucket Worm Castings
5 gallon bucket perlite
1 cup kelp meal
1 cup neem meal
1 cup crusteacean meal
1 cup gypsum
1 cup oyster shell flour
6 cups of Rock dusts (basalt,glacial,granite)
I added some alfalfa meal a week or two after I mixed it.
Crab Pot
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Good choice on the recipe. Yeah your going to need to add a few more nutrients. What percentage of BioChar did you add?
And how much Alfalfa?
hyroot
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Do you mean the lactobacillus / activated labs. You can use those in veg and flower. The flower power ferment is for flower only .
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JayY2015
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I think its about 5% 1-1.5 gallon bio char to around 25 gallon soil mix
Crab Pot
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Sounds good. How much alfalfa?
JayY2015
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I think 5-6 cups for the 25-30 gallon
Crab Pot
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Lol that's a bunch! That's basically Coots mix with Alfalfa added. Why so much? I would advice leaving the alfalfa out of the mix next time. You can always use some for a tea but the mix is well balanced without the alfalfa. Anyway, the alfalfa should offset the BioChar.
JayY2015
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I think I did 4 cups now that I think about it, I did the 1 cup per cubic feet it said on the first page of this post and I started with around 30 gallons.
COGrown
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There's no bad time to use LAB in soil. My understanding is that they help with breaking down any of the organic material in your medium to make it available to the roots. So as long as you have organic amendments that provide P and K as they are broken down, it should help.
I wouldn't spray buds with it, but I don't spray flowers with anything.
JayY2015
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Do you mean use an aerator ??