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hmmm... can't say i agree with much of what you say man. nutrients are part of the needed circle, Law of the minimum... and umm. well.. nutrients are sorta a LARGE part of photosynthesis.. how is growth produced without nutrients? And for arguments sake, if you were right, and they aren't...

hmmm, could be a couple things, I've seen damage like that when the cation balance is off, usually from too much potassium from like a "flower" nutrient.. or it could be poor aeration, or too dense of soil.. or it could be overwatering too. did you add any nutrient with a lot of potassium in...

no landscape lava rock? or another awesome one is rotted tree log chunks... just go take a forest hike and look for the oldest fallen log you can find, usually a critter has dug out the innards looking for grubs and such, but if you can crumble the tree log pieces in your hand, they are good to...

heh, yea, the thing with sand is granted it doesn't hold water, but it reaaally helps in drainage, and with all that organic material, humus, and such it has such a damn awesome CEC rate, but that does come with a downside, in that it'll hold and retain more water, so that warrants the need for...

well, i have nearly 40-50 % aeration as is, but its all different types, i have SO many types... i admit it's a lil much, but i have everything in it perlite, vermiculite, sand, pumice, volcanic rock, biochar, ricehulls, rotted tree log chunks (awesome in the summer) strips of coco-wool (those...

huh? but that's 12 cups for a single cubic foot right? never heard a 10% number in reference to nutrients before.. wait... are you talkin about biochar? now that stuff i love.. great shit to use, i have at least 10% in my mixes, if not more. only problem that can arise is ph fluctuations if the...

ohh yea the castings are dense as hell... and they will keep on making it more and more fine it would appear. what I like is to add a bunch of rice hulls in the castings, those degrade over time and tend to keep it from being too "cakey" but in all =honestly I am not super thrilled about my...

ahh gotcha, I figured I must have missed something there even still, 3.5 cubic feet with 16 cups is a bit rich too, but all depends on cups of what.. if you are adding the minerals in there too i'd say that's about right usually I go with around 2 cups per cubic foot of minerals (only when first...

I added about a cup per cubic foot i'd say. I also LOVE oyster shells for aeration too, the ones they sell at chicken feed stores are great, doubtful they actually have any nutrient value of liming capability though. I totally have done nearly all the manures before, but I haven't done sheep or...

15-16 cups? that's a whooole lot, I did probably that much total for my entire compost pile, which probably made a good 10 cubic feet or so, and further still I cut the compost with "old" soil too. but in hindsight, a compost pile could be easily made with much less than that, in fact that's why...

ahhh yet another experiment I am getting ready for. and that is the subject or paramagnetism... basalt, andesite, etc now typically I am a lil nerdy about science and the like, I like to gather as much information as possible, research extensively and then I make an educated, well thought out...

man, I appreciate the kind words, I try and be as comprehensive as possible without putting people to sleep (do that enough in the "real" world) I wish I was closer to rastaroy, he and I are brothers-from-another-mother, we have almost identical growing styles and techniques. So what did your...

hmm, well, the thing is that they are different.. I don't know if I have the answer for that really, only because I use comfrey more as like a "multivitamin" on it's own I would imagine it'd be needed more continually, only because of it's availability rate, so in a soil mix I don't know how...

ah, well greensand is great to use, it's reaaaally slow, and probably useless the first season, the potassium availability is akin to like granite dust, verrry slow.. it does work well for aeration, and believe it or not it does absorb water too, so as a soil input it's good for that reason...

ahh yes, I have been very impressed with what comfrey brings to my grows, I have found it's the only thing I really add to my soils, and I really believe it may be the perfect nutrient. literally has everything, and at a carbon to nitrogen ratio that it practically melts on it's own, especially...

ahh, well I suppose it al depends on your goals, I don't really do anything at all specific to the stages of the plant itself, the exception being coco and aloe teas that I only do during flowering. But my goal with the compost is to sorta have virtually everything the plant needs and in varying...

EXACTLY landscapers would be alllll over that I know they are eager to give me leaves and grass, I can get WAY more than i'd ever need.

damn, the kid in me is juuuust imagining a pile of grass clippings half the size.. well, you asked what i'd do? that's it. contact the entire area code's landscapers and hook that up

sorry man, didn't see your response. so what I've found via experience is that sativas actually tend to like more nitrogen than indicas, they stretch waaay more, and typically don't stop growing throughout, and alllll that "green" growth is needing nitrogen, however, the caveat being they like...

actually you know what, i really like collecting leaves AFTER it rains man, the rain perfectly moistens all the leaves, and that actually helps with layering and such because then the nitrogen input will stick to the leaves better. you gotta moisten them anyways, and it's a lil easier than...