AACT to replace voodoo juice?

[Thai_Lights]

Could you use aact to replace Advanced nutrients voodoo juice? Is it possible to use teas alongside synthetics?

 

[Richard Drysift]

No dissolved salts dry out the bodies of microbes and bacteria that make the AACT work. Go organic or stay synthetic; cannot do both which is why so many noobs have issues using nutes in soil. If your organic mix is active you won't need to do anything to except give them clean water. AACTs do more for maintaining a high level of microbial activity than they do to provide nutrients even though most recipes have NPK value.

 

[Thai_Lights]

What if I'm using a soil less medium? Voodoo juice is 800 bucks for 20L where I'm at so I was thinking I could use a tea to replace the voodoo. I also wanted to start with peat/aeration/ewc off the gate for the clones and feed teas in my medium then later in veg use my regular synthetics. (I can't find all my organic ingredients in my town)

 

[Richard Drysift]

Then you've pretty much got to use synth nutes. Coco will not hold on to a tea very long; soiless mediums are well draining to avoid salt buildup. An AACT in a soiless medium will not replace your nutes because it relies on organic soil to work. You can however use organic liquid fertilizers instead & just skip using compost. Check out neptunes harvest liquid fish; it is good stuff and you simply mix it with water just like nutrients. Only trouble is your nutrients contain ph buffers that keep your soiless medium inside the proper range; no idea how using a liquid organic fertilizer would change that.

 

[Thai_Lights]

Hey Richard,
What if I mix in castings with peat and aeration and feed teas until clones get bigger then switch to my synthetic nutes?

 

[Richard Drysift]

I honestly have no idea how that will work at first because you do need to balance or at the very least check ph when making up your own mix. I know that once you introduce synth nutes into any organic medium that will slowly kill off all the microbes living in the compost. Nutes are expensive and they make weed taste like an old shoe IMO so I'm always going to say no nutes. I would just go with one method or the other. The expense and complexity of using nutrients is why I decided to go organic in the first place but the quality of bud and simplicity of organic growing methods is what makes me keep on doing it.

 

[Thai_Lights]

Richard thanks for taking the time to reply me. Next run I'll definitely go organic 100% cheers.

 

[Richard Drysift]

I wold just get a bag of good quality soil or mix up your own like you planned and then give water plus an occasional AACT maybe every few weeks. Throw all your bottles of stuff in the garbage & start up a worm bin. Then in time you can literally feed your plants kitchen scraps for zero dollars. I have spent almost nothing so far this year on my grow except for the power bill.

 

[vostok]

No dissolved salts dry out the bodies of microbes and bacteria that make the AACT work. Go organic or stay synthetic; cannot do both which is why so many noobs have issues using nutes in soil. If your organic mix is active you won't need to do anything to except give them clean water. AACTs do more for maintaining a high level of microbial activity than they do to provide nutrients even though most recipes have NPK value.

I wold just get a bag of good quality soil or mix up your own like you planned and then give water plus an occasional AACT maybe every few weeks. Throw all your bottles of stuff in the garbage & start up a worm bin. Then in time you can literally feed your plants kitchen scraps for zero dollars. I have spent almost nothing so far this year on my grow except for the power bill.

Go organic or stay synthetic; = cannot do both which is why so many noobs have issues using nutes in soil.

..so very true dude!

one or the other not both Obiwan

 

[DonTesla]

@g.nomegenetics on IG is proving a synthetic-organic hybrid style is possible and doing so successfully. Just gotta know when to inoculate which is basically after every time you water/feed, cause yeah, each time you feed synthetically, the chelated salts which are charged do a lot of harm to the micro life, killing 25% on average each application roughly, lol. Definitely better not working against yourself and going 100% organic though, I agree. For $800 you can build $700 in soil that will last you for, well yeah, pretty much life, and $100 left over can be for amendments to add in later runs/years

May as well find a spot to compost and vermicompost, which can be in the same spot, as GreaseMonkeyMan is proving. That way you can produce tonnes of high grade humus Ruch biomass for free and your costs can get cut more and more