Too many organic additives?

Whats up RIU,
I read somewhere that too much sea kelp and/or other organic additives can cause hermaphrotism. Ive never experienced this myself. But I just recently made the switch to organics. Just wondering what other people have experienced.

Peace,
Rockin'

I have overly ammended my soil before and had problems most.likely due to water soluble ammendments. If your soil is broken down properly with given amounts of time I believe you would be ok. But less is always more you can always add but taking away is a big bitch

I've never gotten Herms from too much.....I have yellowed them out kinda good though.

I grow outdoors in a GH and raised beds and I use lots of kelp...I ammend my soils with at least a 100 pounds of kelp meal before planting season and every fert watering gets kelp also..I bet i have used 4 gallons since June...and my plants are great...i use a weaker mix the last 3 weeks before cutting...i think it helps me alot from getting bud rot and also lots of bud sites...I use Neptune liquid kelp for the soil and Nitrozyme for foliar with added silica...plants love it...and see a difference the next day when I check them.

Oh I grow in 100% 2 year old composted horse manure...stuff is magic...all beds in GH and outside are LOADED in worms..my own casting makers...

I once saw a guy who had hermie and he assumed that it from excessive nutrients, but he didn't sure.

Captain Adrian said:

I once saw a guy who had hermie and he assumed that it from excessive nutrients, but he didn't sure.

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People always assuming shit with no facts leading others to believe the bullshit

anzohaze said:

People always assuming shit with no facts leading others to believe the bullshit

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i would love to see some facts regarding this though. My expierence is that some strains, or even specific phenos are genetically predisposed to throw herms. I am talking about bannanas, not an entire hermaphrdoite plant. I had 5 different liberty haze phenos. 2 of them liked to thrown nanners. ive found that the phenos that do throw nanners are sometimes the BEST phenos of that strain. IDK its a mystery to me. As far as soil ammendments causing this. seems like a shot in the dark. i would first look at temperatures, training/cropping bending methods causing stress or light leaks! But even with none of these stressors if its in the genetics nothing one ccan do except try to pull out nanners before pollen spread.

I would have to agree with you. Climate stresses and genetics would cause a plant to herm out faster then your soil biology. It just caught my attention because he was emphasizing that sea kelp and Gaunos are the main cause of this. Because i use a lot of kelp. As a soil ammendmant. and thrive alive b1 green for a foiler... .and Soil drench at transplant. Sometimes.
Thanks for everyone's input. This is my first all organic grow. Been using every bottled nute under the sun before i switched to super soil.
Lovin it. Although it takes forever for my plants to veg.