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If your soil is well buffered/limed, the low pH of the tea won't matter. The soil will soon bring it to the soils pH. Not much in organics isn't acidic, thus the importance of a well limed soil. Wet

PLEASE!, No pics of your corkscrew! Thanks in advance. Wet

Thanks for that. I messed up 1/2 gallon of EMe with too much airspace under the airlock. Still have some EM1, but misplaced the ratios. Also have a 50lb bag of wheat bran for bokashi bran that should be done for next spring if my cheap labor (son), comes for a visit. Funny, I love the dried...

I've always heard laying mash and that's what I use. Seeing them side by side in open bins in the feed store, thae laying mash is a bit smaller and should break down faster, besides having a bit of Ca added for the eggshells. But really, both are just cracked/slightly ground corn with very...

*I* really don't use a %, being way more of an eyeballer and handful of this or that kinda guy. For fresh mixes I'll use ~ 3 cups of lime in a wheelbarrow full. More than 2cf, but less than 3cf, about 18-19 gallons. Gypsum, if added, would be ~1cup. I do recycle my soil, but don't always add...

Freeze will kill them, but here ya go: Neem Tree Farms Brandon, Fl Wouldn't hurt to get some info. Wet

WTF choo talkin about Willis!? I've been called many things, but neoliberal, or, even liberal hasn't ever been one of them. Wet

I also use gypsum, but not instead of D-Lime. D-Lime is my buffering agent and is, by me, considered totally seperately from any other amendments, minerals, rock dust, Ca sources, whatever. It is the second ingredient, after peat moss, added to the wheelbarrow when making a mix. THEN...

FWIW, a 50# bag of Thorvin organic kelp meal from Iceland is $71 delivered to my door. Wet

Did you pick up the D-Lime also? Adding/mixing with the perlite means doing the shovel work just once. Plus, it takes a couple of weeks to actually start working. Wet

Well, it's mainly for garlic in early spring, coming out of dormancy and pepper plants that like lots of N. Almost never for mj. That gets milder and slower N sources, unless you use really light doses. @ 12-0-0, you can't get too happy with blood meal. I'll get a small handful (~1/8 cup), and...

Very acidic! A EDU. I read years ago stated that it took 10lbs of lime to neutralize 100lbs of cotton seed meal. That's a LOT of lime. I use soy in my mixes now instead of blood and save the blood for top dressing for a shot of N. I'm sure it's GMO since it's $14 for a 50# bag. Organic soy is...

RR is spot on, but I have to add a *must have* and that is kelp meal. Even if you must order it online, 5# will do to get started. My very first organic mix was LC's #2, which was a blood, bone, kelp meal in a peat moss, perlite, pine bark fines, dolomite lime, basic mix that I had been making...

Ask around some. My local feed&seed always had vermiculite (?? bedding I guess), but never perlite. I finally asked and he said, no room and low demand, then added he could order it if I could wait a week. NO PROBLEM! Would stop by on a Mon before he ordered stock and it would come in on the...

Get the local perlite, a 4cf bag if you can. AFA variety it should say 'horticural grade', or, just Perlite. They are the same stuff. "Chunky" is just a gimmick and actually works less well, besides costing more. Here is my beef with pumice, lava rock and the like and inexperienced growers...

You are responding to a 9YO thread. REALLY, who gives a flying fuck!? Wewt

Call me old and cranky, but, $20.28 to ship a $7.30 product makes zero sense to me. Especially when there are other ways to get carbon and silica. But, whatever. 8cf of perlite is also what I keep on hand. A 4cf bag works out pretty well for a 3.8cf bale of peat moss. Not exact, but close...

DING! DING! DING! We have a winner! First off, get yourself some D-Lime (pulverized, from Lowes or HD, or the feed store. Oyster shell, only if you are close enough to the left coast to get it in an actual store, for $10 or so. D-Lime is ~$4.50) Snag a LOCAL 4cf bag of perlite. Should be $16 -...

Local, unfiltered, wildflower honey on cathead biscuits and/or fried chicken. Molasses for microbes. Easy. Wet

Why brew at all? Coot did an experiment a couple years back and found that malted barley powder applied as a top dress and just watered in worked just as well as the brews, with no mess. A $12 electric coffee grinder does great for powdering the malted barley. We mainly use it as a spice...