Oregon's organics soil #4 with nectar simple 4 part. 4-6" clones in 3gal pots. I have been told that I can feed up to every 3-4 days. My question is how much water should I use during feedings?
Hate the soil i usually water till i have a little runoff Sent from my SGH-M919 using Grasscity Forum mobile app
lmao Not exactly sure what the Simple 4 Part lineup is, but he's talking about Nectar For The Gods, an organic bottled nutes line. http://oregonsonly.com/evolution-of-a-product-line They're less morally bankrupt than Advanced Nutrients (low bar), but on par with Roots Organics (i.e., a rip-off compared to making your own). I like the new avatar, Rancho! Haven't gone morel hunting in quite a while, but I used to loooooove it..... we'd find lbs of them..... Also, I'm helping someone put together a soil.... you've used/still use pea gravel as part of your aeration right? Do you think that could be used as the only aeration amendment or not? If not, what percentage of the aeration do you use it as?
Right on. I've heard of that company. Let's give this guy a little advice so we don't jack his thread too much. 2tbs alfalfa 1tbs kelp per gal H2O bubbled or simply stir for 24hrs...makes a great tea. If the numbers scare you for flower, then I'd suggest using fish hydrolysate and kelp. If your plants are dark green and healthy they don't need either of these. If you got some bottom leaves or the whole plant losing the dark green (or worse) yellowing....then use them. GTG- Yeah man, love morel hunting unfortunately I didn't get to go this spring. Pea gravel. Right now, in that bed I've got, I'm using 75% uncrushed lava/ 25% pea gravel. I'm happy with how it works. I remember MM talking about using it. Really though, I was simply looking for a way around crushing the lava rock. I've been wondering if I could use it as a sole aeration amendment or if I could use it in tandem w/ say 5-10% bio-char. I've been using perlite for veg plants and I just can't do it anymore. Maybe rice hulls,char, pea gravel? My thought is, the pea gravel is relatively smooth and may not provide the aeration...more just for drainage? I don't know. I'm gonna do some testing on this. Perlite has to go.
Word, thanks man. He said he could get pea gravel for free, and was curious if he could use it as his only aeration. I wasn't sure, so I helped him find some bio-char and lava rock sources. I figured something like 10% bio-char, and a near even split of pea gravel and lava rock should do good.... Maybe I'll tell him to lean more toward lava rock than pea gravel....
Washington State Department of Agriculture - Nectar for the Gods listings Click on the name of a specific product and see for yourself what's going on... Wee!
Thanks Coot....but I'll pass on that. GTG- Have you used bio-char at 10% before? Results? I've been nervous to go that heavy with it. I bet a 50/50 lava/pea would work fine especially w/ 10% char in the mix.
I'm starting my first experiment with bio-char now, and at 10%..... but I know other GCers have used it at 10% and had good results..... I'm pretty sure Coot is among them.... thomasjefferson is documenting his experiments with char in his journal. The person I am helping seemed interested and willing/eager to give it a try.
Wow if you choose Advance Nutrient's over Nectar For the gods you guys obviously never tried it, and its 100% Organic
Who said anything about preferring Advanced Nutrients? Cats around here don't typically use anything bottled anyway. Was it really worth digging this up just to post a misplaced defense of a bottled nute company?
Na I just hate people dissing on certain company's because they work for or are supported by another , and/or are paid to give bad reviews you know. My bad i didn't wanna start a war. Anyway Dekabos what would be best to use that's not a bottle nutrient if you don't mind.
would 1.2 ppm of lead be bad? just saw that on that site and just wondering or does it naturally occure in bone meal or something
Really? What has led you to believe that bottled liquid fertilizers are "organic"? Just because it's labeled as such? Not looking for war here either... Liquid bottled nutrients are not "organic", regardless of the labeling. The materials used to produce the nutrients in said bottles are chemically extracted, and then chemically chelated to make them plant available, or "soluble". If they weren't, you'd just wind up with a bunch of precipitated muck in the bottom of the bottle... We prefer to do things naturally, which involves creating soils that are rich in microbial life. Microbes do the work that makes nutrients available to plants. The MSDS sheets for NFG products are a joke, when considering "organic" viability. Pick through them at your leisure. Click on the product in question, then click the MSDS link... http://www.hhydro.com/nutrients-and-fertilizer/nutrients-by-brands/nectar-for-the-gods Labeling and gimmickry is the plastic bottle...
I'd have to guess that it would entirely depend on the product as to whether it's organic or not. I have no knowledge on the Nectar of the Gods line but I'm sure that there is organic bottled nutrients out there. J
NFTG looks like muck in a bottle and compared to every other line I have tried they look and smell more organic than any other organic line I have tried. I also had a question on what makes them be able to be organic certified compared to all the other companies who are not and wanna be?
I'm sure that it's dependent on the specific company and the product that they make. Which company or product are you referring to?