These are usually my go to products. Fulvic acid on the right, chitosal in the middle, soluble seaweed extract on the left, and some organic unsulphered molasses.
-Fulvic acid: simply put, it’s a great aid to help bind minerals and nutrients together. It can also aid in water infiltration and aeration. It can also help supress any harmful bacteria. Overall, in proper amounts it is a great addition to the soil.
-Chitosal: this stuff is pretty cool. It mainly consists of a special form of chitin called oligochitosan and salicin. When added to the soil or foliar sprayed (not a big fan of any foliars) it causes an immune response in the plant. Bugs’ shells are all made of chitin. To put it short, plants have a special ability to detect this within the soil or on them so they have time to react accordingly to try and deter them. With a stronger immune system comes a healthier plant. During flower, trichomes are a part of the plant’s immune system so by triggering the plant in special ways it will cause more trichomes to form. Although there are many ways to supplement extra chitin (for very cheap) into the soil i find this product worth every penny.
Seaweed extract: a great and powerful growth hormone along with soooooo many trace minerals. Use in small doses or suffer the consequences! I like this product because it also has a good punch of potassium as well.
Molases will feed the biology as it populates in the tea and in the soil. This will also add to a higher carbon concentration within the soil which is bassically our number one goal in the first place.
Boil bubble toil and trouble! This witches brew will go for atleast 24 hours before i feed the bubba, the super skunk and a little to the soil being prepped for the purple kush.
This section is about the bubba. I completely underestimated how bushy and branchy this girl was going to be. I left far to many side branches on her while srogging and now i am not happy with how little airflower i can get through. Shown below you can’t see through the canopy at all.
I’m betting that i am going to have alot of lowers not close to finish when i chop her… This is one of the things i will do differently for next bubba run.
She sure is getting pretty though. I opened up the tent and got smacked in the face with a kushy funk. She’s changing up her scent fast!
I’d rather not disturb her at this point. That is definitely a good idea but i re-use the nets and the branches have lost all pliability at this point. The lowers will just be pressed into rosin after. The teas are bi-weekly which is really not necessary, i could do it once a month but i like the idea of maximizing the life in the soil more often. Even when the overpopulated microbes die off they become food for other life anyway.
I eyeball all my additions at this point. The bottles bassically say 2ml per litre which is definitely the best way to use it. The seaweed has a weight per litre on it but ive always found a large pinch in the 4ish gallons of tea goes a long way. It can be very easily over used.
The bubba kush is entered in a home growers cup held by 34 streeet seed company. They will be using their testing facility to test terpenes and cannabinoids
Nice!! I’m stoked that you’re reading it! What chapter are you on??
About the seaweed. Nature demands a balance in everything. There are two reasons that heavy use of this product can backfire. There are several growth hormones in kelp/seaweed the main one being cytokinin. This hormone in balanced levels can increase root devolopment, faster plant growth, tighter nodes, and more leaves. Too much and it will actually hurt root development, mess with even node spacing and can mess with the use of nitrogen to develope chlorophyll in leaves and they will yellow. The second is the potassium content. Long story short too much potassium will burn your plants and screw with all sorts of things. The link below is a great watch about how important carbon is to a plant, there is a part that talks about just how important potassium is.
I think that was referenced in the book vaguely, but when I devour a book in one sitting I realize afterwards that I should have slowed down and taken notes! I did bookmark quite a few pages though…
I will watch the video, thank you my friend
Holy crap you read the whole thing! You weren’t kidding about your love of reading lol. I have it on audio book and continue to listen over and over. Everytime picking up on things i missed. Glad you liked it! He wrote “teaming with nutrients” which i hear is pretty valuable aswell but havent gotten around to it.
Mrgrowit is awesome, dedicated to free knowledge with some really great guests on his podcast!
Thank you guys! It’s my obsession and i love talking to people with just as much passion as i have for organic cannabis. For my future grows i will go more in depth with my soils and practise.
I will be starting my own soil and ammendment company out of my house very shortly and spending the winter testing things out. I will be sure to share absolutely everything on this page!
Update on the purple kush. She was starting to sink her roots into the soil from the drainage holes in the cup so I decided it’s time. I started by choping and dropping any cover crop that would be touching the leaves.
Then i set her aside and dug into the soil with my hand. I pulled out a combination of worm castings and worms and a little pumice. The worms have populated like crazy and the soil is bassically worm castings and pumice by this point. Once she was transplanted, i gave the soil 1/3 gallon of dechlorinated water. I usually keep a 5 gallon bucket of water with an aquarium pump going in it. I got some water on the leaves while spraying the soil so i made sure to give the leaves a gentle wipe with soft paper towel. She wasnt happy about it but i’m sure she’ll perk up in no time.
I’m kicking myself for not taking a root picture or a picture of the worms but I get really into the moment when I’m with my plants and forget to take pictures most of the time. As most of you could relate, this hobby is therapy.
@Daves.not.here Great read and nice pics. I try to grow as organic as I can. I’ve found that organics make my girls happy and they show their appreciation with a more pleasant terp profile. My last grow I used Fox Farms Happy Frog soil amended with worm castings 5:1 . I had water PH problems which I used apple cider vinegar to adjust it from over 8 to below 7. I also added molasses at feeding time in small amounts to the water. Halfway through flower I amended the soil with an inch of soil from my garden mixed with more worm castings. The garden was rich with deer droppings where I took the amendment from. I collect them when I walk the dog and work them into a corner of the garden. The only thing I used other than previously mentioned was Flower Fuel. My wife really likes the FF for her flowers and she has a lot of them, so it will be gone soon. What single organic nutrient would you recommend to replace it with?
@Darodguy thank you for the kind words and happy to hear about your organic journey! A healthy organic living soil has a natural ph buffer due to the ionic content of the humus + content created by the activitey of your microbiology. Activiely dropping the ph by adding more chemistry (whatever it may be) will not get rid of the ion content and may add more work in the long run for your soil trying to reach a homeostasis. Theres usually a right form of microbial innoculant mixed with a fulvic and humic acid that could help bring balance to any soil with a ph issue. It may take a little longer but will ensure that once back to neutral, the plant can get right back to work exchanging exudates and food.
What i would focus more on is the content in the water that is causing a high ph and look into maybe filtering it out in some sort of way. It could be some sort of carbonate/bicarbonate and in that case the buildup over time will affect the soil.
Also carefull with introducing soils with droppings. There’s a small chance that it hasnt gone through any thermal process caused by good microbioloy to kill off as many pathogens as possible. You run a small risk of introducing life you dont want to introduce!
Flower fuel looks to me like a nitrate and phosphate based synthetic fertilizer. Very high in phosphorus. If you are looking to go organic you could look into more carbon based fertilizer and look into worm casting/compost teas to reintroduce biology that the synthetic fertilizer may have hurt. You could use very simple things like rock dusts, feather meal, bone meal, fishbone meal, crab meal, kelp meal, alfalfa meal. Or an all purpose and power bloom (a premix of the list of ingredients and more) from gaia green. Top dressing with these ammendments along with some good compost or worm castings would not only make a beautiful flower garden but would help bring back the life into our soils and our earth. You would be doing mother nature proud!
The video below is of an owner of a carbon based fertilizer company. Full of great information. Hope this all helps!
@Daves.not.here I would love to set up a living soil like the Build-a-soil folks do, but because of our grandkid situation, I have to grow extremely covertly. Thus my grows are very small in every aspect. We have city water which has to be de-chlorinated and I never had a problem with water PH until last winter when our water went from a steady 6.8 to 8.7 mid-flower and I had to come up with a solution quick. It has come back down to 6.8 again. I called the town and they had no explanation, but solved their problem.
The deer and rabbit droppings are mixed into just one corner of our raised vegetable garden and I rotate the corners every year, so it has at least a year for the worms and microbes to break it down. I also work fresh grass clippings and ash from burnt wood and charcoal into my garden soil and haven’t needed fertilizer in years.
A 1.5 gal. pot is the largest I have used and that will probably not change until the laws here do, hence covertness. I will be on the lookout for gaia green power bloom. Thanks and keep up the great work.
Strange that your city couldnt give you an answer, I wonder what it was! In the case of your small grow, this link may help you grow quality in a smaller container organically.
I wish you all the best in your grows! Your vegetable garden sounds like a beauty setup! I would love to see some of your vegies!
There is our garden: tomatoes on the left, zucchini on the right, sage in the middle, and peppers on the front right. My Honey makes some wonderful biscuits and gravy with sage. The droppings go in the corners; a different one every year. Canning time is just around the corner.
@Daves.not.here I don’t think they couldn’t give me an answer as much as they wouldn’t give me an answer. Deny, deny, deny. That’s governments for ya’.
But thanks for taking the time to help 
