I am sick of hearing this because it is complete BS. Perlite may not be biologically active when you add it to your mix. But it the instant it touches anything with microbial life it becomes fair game for colonization. These puffy little rocks don't remain dead spaces devoid of all life in your media. Perlite has an insane surface area.... perfect for nitrifying bacteria. I am tired of people pumping this bad info out. Perlite may not add life to your soil.... but it damned sure adds more possible spaces for beneficial critters to call home then damned near any other substrate additive.
Bacteria & various other micro/macro fauna (animals) are generally the prime movers in what performs the decomposition (decay) process. What is left over is their "poop". I see no difference between worm castings and my own poo.... they are both waste products of an animal carrying on about it's necessary biological process. The fact is, soil is what it is because it's made up of the waste products of other organisms.
So you are taking your bad hygiene habits and the illness they cause and using it to vilify and condemn "inferior and UNHEALTHY organic growing" and to promote "superior veganic growing". If I ran around licking doorknobs in a hospital and wound up with the flu I wouldn't blame the damn hospital....
I agree with Canna, chill dude I swear I remember you doing a "organic" grow using only urine and EWC, how'd did that ever turn out?
Sorry but I thought that was too funny.
). 2 landrace Thai seeds (which were brought back for me by another friend), a seed from a purple pheno White Rhino which was uncharacteristically strong and a couple of novel crosses between NLx5 and something I don't recognise by smell, taste, high or sight. Promises to be interesting if nothing else, difference in flowering times might make a simultaneous grow somewhat irksome but I might try them anyway as can't be bothered to look for new strains when I have these on my desk. Although they are probably void now, youngest one in there must be 4 years old...
Never used it as a nutrient before, but if I were to use it I would NEVER piss straight into my pot...thats just dumb as fuck lol. IMO its a waste of time to use, but I think the proper mixture of urine, ash, and other nutrients could actually create a pretty good fertilizer, better than "okay" at best, and definitely better than no fertilizer for those who are on a tiny budget. It's feasible, it just isn't really worth the effort for the results unless you are suuuuper desperate
Just urine and wood ash in DWC. Tomatoes are growing like champs. Still waiting on the outcome of the superbowl to pick who eats the wizz-maters.I agree with Canna, chill dude I swear I remember you doing a "organic" grow using only urine and EWC, how'd did that ever turn out?
the assassin and hbd hmm i would like to see the out come as for the rocket fuel and hbd theres not much difference other then the blue trait that i could tell maybe youll get lucky and they'll all be the monster pheno good luck love to see some picsOkkkkkay, well happy new year first up!
Then...
From lack of input I have started some seeds I had floating around that are a mixture of crosses between a Himalayan Blue Diesel (f) and: an Assassin (m), a Russian Rocket Fuel (m) and another HBD (m). Does anyone have any idea what these might be like? I basically pollinated the female just because I could and wasn't really that interested in Auto's, but I'm intrigued now as I soaked 70 of them and 68 have germinated! They are about 3 years old and were in a baggy in the bottom of a cupboard, crazy how so many were still viable!
I have also found some seeds I secreted away even longer ago: firstly a hybrid Cheese seed from an older and much worshipped grower friend, not sure of the male but the female was the clone only South West Destroyer cut which was sadly allowed to go extinct 6 weeks ago when the owner of the mother went to Nepal on a spiritual journey (fuck that 'exodus cut' in seed form, nothing like the true UK cheese...!
Will let you know how they take? (Everything but the auto's will be veganic).