Yucca chitosan product

Bignutes

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My friend is giving away a product in liquid form that normally retails for $800 a jug, it's made of chitosan and yucca. I am interested in the chitosan aspect and the fact that it's free but what have been your experience with yucca?

Here's the specs:

 

Snoopy808

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Ive used yucca for its surfactant and wetting agent properties. For me i used it in some greenhouses we ran on the drier side to keep PM down. It helped smaller volumes of water or tea get into soil that developed the crust on top. It worked well. We learned to add yucca when ready to water or tea, otherwise if added when making a fresh tea or filling the water tanks that had airstones or water jets the next morning we would find foam overflowing from the top! Big mess!
 

Snoopy808

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Did you get the plant food alpha to mix and adjust the pH? SDS sheet mentions it has nitrate, ammonia and something else. Wonder what the proprietary stuff is? Very interesting product.
My favorite golf course fertilizer is perfect blend 444 and 999.
 

Bignutes

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I asked him about that earlier today if I needed it or if I could adjust ph myself, he said I could do it myself but I'm wondering how well it would maintain it. It never sold from being too expensive so its being discontinued by the company my friend works for. I guess it's experiment time.

The other product he's sending me is this, it's $40 for a 50 lb bag:

I figured it would be a one and done instead of a whole host of assorted amendments at 10x the cost retail. Talked with the Earthworks agronomist Kevin Hicks today to figure out Ca content, it's 6% with no mg which I think is a good thing just add Epsom. Funny he is on the Perfect Blend website giving his testimonial, small world hey!

I like the looks of those perfect blend products, figured it's easier to stick with a fairly even NPK ratio. Are those your main fertilizers for growing cannabis?

He is putting me in touch with Bill Mckibben, he wrote the following book, supposed to be highly recommended and knowledgeable about cannabis and the type of soil it needs, looking forward to that conversation if it happens.

 

Snoopy808

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Perfect blend also has most micros added as chelates too. And has many beneficial bacteria.

I cant find the 999 perfect blend anymore in my area. But the 444 i always have a bag for general purpose.
Its far more effective than pelletized chicken manure with same numbers.
I use it as a top dress in full term and with potted plants im holding till transplant. Especially good in the nursery. Ill make a tea with it or add it to my tea mix just to change food sources for the plants, usually im in a pinch, i forgot to buy another part of my tea and use perfect blend instead.

I cant find the 999 perfect blend, but I used to mix the 999 into soil prep for my full term.

Every season, for full term beds, rows and smart pots I add bio-live, glacial rock dust, worm casts and high nitrogen+high phosphorus sea bird guano for my bagged ferts. But also add lots of horse manure and rabbit manure, compost and alfalfa pellets. Till it in, water it for a few days then plant. If brand new soil, or a new spot ill add a 1/4 cup of mycorhyzzae to hole before putting in plant. Its from a 50# sack of mycorhyzzae granular not powder, not great white, orca or mykos brand. Ill use those in my teas as they are powdered.

I top dress with dolomite, k-mag and epsom salts monthly during full term.
 

Bignutes

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That's good to know, I will be on the lookout for the 999 or 444, sounds like good stuff.

I need to find a source of kmag or a slow release mag other than dolomite, as an alternative for potassium I picked up some rice hulls today. They are supposed to be NPK of 0.05 - 0 - 2.7. I asked the guy at the brew making place if he sold in bulk, lol, he came out with a 50 lb or 200 litre sack. I'm set for a while. He knew what it was for and we got talking, he used to carry powdered chitosan, something I'm very interested in, I dislike going with teas other than molasses last few weeks and detest liquid fertilizers so its meals and granular for lowest amount of effort.
 

Snoopy808

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Ha ha. I understand the tea thing. Can be too much responsibility for some growers.

My ocean potion makes growing easy peasy. 75% worm casts its mostly microbes. In 250 gallons maybe 3 pounds dry ferts used when plants getting 5 gallons. My oldest soil mix is 8 years old and still growing trees from it.

K-mag coarse grain is fairly long term release. Its around a 0-0-20 or so, K+ varies year to year.

Huguculture (spelling?) Might be something to look into if you are growing in the ground.
 
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