If you could only use three amendments...?

Rainbow Warrior

Rainbow Warrior

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Obepawn said:
Just a simple thread here. I did an internet search with this question and nothing really came up, so I'm asking it here. If you could only choose 3 amendments to grow with for the rest of your life, what would they be? If you want to give the reason why that would be great. Remember single amendments no commercial blends or fertilizer, such as bloom ferts, all purpose, bottled nutes etc...

My three:

1. Compost: just because of versatility during the making of it. Can be crafted for specific growth needs, veg, flower...

2. Kelp meal: Growth hormones, mineral content, heat tolerance and overall plant health.

3. Bone meal: Some nitrogen, calcium, other miner and phosphorus to finish through flower.

Those are mine. Thanks ahead of time guys.
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I use compost only and use nettle/comfrey as nutes. I have a composter (have a big garden, so lots of organic “debris”....
I’m a vegetarian so bone meal is a no no for me, as for kelp-never used it
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Rainbow Warrior

Rainbow Warrior

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Obepawn said:
I have the exact same tumbler. So you compost tea all the way til harvest?
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I harvest nettles BEFORE they flower, and use them from about three-4 weeks in veg, comfrey for bloom; I stop about 3 weeks b4 harvest.
You can mix both into one brew.

you let the nettles / comfrey stew for at least 4 weeks; mix it a few times. After that, u take the leafs out and hey presto, you have ur free Fertiliser, 100% natural and environment friendly.

https://greensideup.ie/how-to-make-comfrey-nettle-fertiliser/

Word of warning: the tea smells like a devils fart; the nettles don’t only sting but the stink too ;-)

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Wetdog

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Blood, Bone, Kelp, my very first mix and worked well.

The bone and kelp have been constant for 10 years, but the N source gets varied, like, alfalfa, soy, neem/karanja, seabird guano. But only one gets used.

Wet
 
JavaCo

JavaCo

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Compost because I can throw any or all amendments in a compost bin, doesn't matter plants , minerals , animal products, bacteria, nematodes , ect , ect . Then I would go with a mycorrhizae fungi because that one wont survive composting. last one would be a horsetail fermented tea as a Anti fungal Foliar spray.
 
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ScaryHarry45

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Obepawn said:
Just a simple thread here. I did an internet search with this question and nothing really came up, so I'm asking it here. If you could only choose 3 amendments to grow with for the rest of your life, what would they be? If you want to give the reason why that would be great. Remember single amendments no commercial blends or fertilizer, such as bloom ferts, all purpose, bottled nutes etc...

My three:

1. Compost: just because of versatility during the making of it. Can be crafted for specific growth needs, veg, flower...

2. Kelp meal: Growth hormones, mineral content, heat tolerance and overall plant health.

3. Bone meal: Some nitrogen, calcium, other miner and phosphorus to finish through flower.

Those are mine. Thanks ahead of time guys.
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Kelp, Compost and Alfalfa for me. I personally would never use bone meal unless I knew the source was from high quality grass fed animals. Pretty sure all the bagged bone meal is from disgusting mass slaughter houses of animals that have been fed hormones , antibiotics, gmo corn and live in the most horrible conditions. No way I'm feeding that to my babies!
 
too larry

too larry

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Hell this makes up a good portion of my soil mix. Why? Because they are cheap, free and free.

Mushroom compost, coffee ground compost and chicken shit compost.

I do all the blood, bone, etc, etc. too. Not as cheap.
 
blazeaglory420

blazeaglory420

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Obepawn said:
Just a simple thread here. I did an internet search with this question and nothing really came up, so I'm asking it here. If you could only choose 3 amendments to grow with for the rest of your life, what would they be? If you want to give the reason why that would be great. Remember single amendments no commercial blends or fertilizer, such as bloom ferts, all purpose, bottled nutes etc...

My three:

1. Compost: just because of versatility during the making of it. Can be crafted for specific growth needs, veg, flower...

2. Kelp meal: Growth hormones, mineral content, heat tolerance and overall plant health.

3. Bone meal: Some nitrogen, calcium, other miner and phosphorus to finish through flower.

Those are mine. Thanks ahead of time guys.
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Same
 
Highsince76

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hyroot said:
Both. Top dressed in flower along with bokashi and castings. Then made a soil mix with it for vegging plants
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Hyroot, do you think the bio live has enough in it to use as a stand alone supplement?
If added with a base media mix of peat, Bu's compost, and pumice or perlite at something like 2-3 c. per cu. ft.
It has most of the good stuff, but at what ratio?
I would be interested in trying in a SIP with EM1 and gro kashi on top.
 
hyroot

hyroot

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Highsince76 said:
Hyroot, do you think the bio live has enough in it to use as a stand alone supplement?
If added with a base media mix of peat, Bu's compost, and pumice or perlite at something like 2-3 c. per cu. ft.
It has most of the good stuff, but at what ratio?
I would be interested in trying in a SIP with EM1 and gro kashi on top.
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I added 2 cups per cubic foot of soil. I also added home made worm castings and bokashi. I also feed with ferments 2 out of 3 waterings till half way through flower. Plants are doing great

Day 12

Plants on the right are not yellow. That's just the lighting. I have 3000k COB LEDs on that side. A mix of cool white and warm white and deep red SMD LEDs on the left

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